Helping island societies and ecosystems adapt to climate change, ensuring food security, managing biodiversity and tree crops...
Supporting rubber growing, aquaculture and periurban agriculture, which provide many small-scale producers with an income, helping farmers adapt to markets and emerging animal diseases...
Designing high-yielding, environmentally friendly farming and agroforestry systems, developing methods and tools suitable for small-scale producers, improving product quality and food safety...
Food and energy security is a priority in this region, given the impact of climate change and population growth...
Using diversified agricultural development to guarantee food security for local populations, preserving natural resources against degradation...
Supporting public policy for sustainable farming system management, fostering quality in animal production and animal health...
Managing natural resources in dry grasslands and forest zones is a regional priority and a major issue for sustainable development...
CIRAD provides support in terms of managing territories with strong constraints, and emerging animal and plant diseases: risks, sanitary and environmental impact, multi-species cropping systems, genetic diversity...
Managing the exceptional biodiversity found in Madagascar and developing upland rice growing systems suitable for the highlands...
Managing water requirements and controlling emerging diseases in a context of increasing pressure resulting from climate change and urbanization...
In Montpellier, CIRAD has built a research centre with an international vocation: specialist laboratories and equipment and facilities for receiving, training and teaching students with a view to development in the South...
CIRAD’s head office is in Paris. The Jardin tropical campus is home to scientific and university teams and NGOs working on sustainable development, globalization and North-South relations...
Supporting low environmental impact farming practices in Amazonia, developing dynamic, reactive varietal creation operations, developing support policies for rural areas...
Biodiversity and the environment are major local issues, with research on “clean” bananas and multi-species cropping systems, a regional animal disease surveillance network, a natural forest observation system and biological resource centres...
A French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues
13/05/2013 - Article
VIDEO. In Papua New Guinea, coconut palms and certain varieties of banana are affected by Bogia syndrome, a new disease caused by phytoplasms (insect-borne bacteria). The disease is threatening the international coconut collection for the whole of the Pacific region, in Madang province. The ...
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13/05/2013 - Article
A Madagascar, la première centrale thermoélectrique à biomasse, vient d’être mise en route dans ...
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26/04/2013 - Article
Fonio plays a major role in enrusing food security and maintaining biodiversity in West Africa. ...
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26/04/2013 - Article
Developing farming systems that emit less greenhouse gas while remaining productive and capable ...
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24/04/2013 - Article
Large-scale land grabbing first hit the headlines following the Daewoo affair in Madagascar in ...
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26/04/2013 - Article
A new issue of Fruits with an editorial paying tribute to Jacky Ganry, who was the journal's ...
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25/04/2013 - Article
Small-scale chainsaw milling is the main timber-producing sector in central Africa as well as a ...
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