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Asie du Sud-Est insulaire
  • Southeast Asian islands

    Helping island societies and ecosystems adapt to climate change, ensuring food security, managing biodiversity and tree crops...

  • Continental Southeast Asia

    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...

  • Other LAC regions

    Designing high-yielding, environmentally friendly farming and agroforestry systems, developing methods and tools suitable for small-scale producers, improving product quality and food safety...

  • Continental West Africa

    Food and energy security is a priority in this region, given the impact of climate change and population growth...

  • Coastal West Africa

    Using diversified agricultural development to guarantee food security for local populations, preserving natural resources against degradation...

  • East and southern Africa

    Supporting public policy for sustainable farming system management, fostering quality in animal production and animal health...

  • Central Africa

    Managing natural resources in dry grasslands and forest zones is a regional priority and a major issue for sustainable development...

  • Réunion and Mayotte

    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...

  • Madagascar

    Managing the exceptional biodiversity found in Madagascar and developing upland rice growing systems suitable for the highlands...

  • Mediterranean

    Managing water requirements and controlling emerging diseases in a context of increasing pressure resulting from climate change and urbanization...

  • Languedoc-Roussillon

    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...

  • Île-de-France

    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...

  • Brazil

    Supporting low environmental impact farming practices in Amazonia, developing dynamic, reactive varietal creation operations, developing support policies for rural areas...

  • West Indies-French Guiana

    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...

CIRAD

A French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues

Working together for tomorrow's agriculture...

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  • A disease is decimating coconut palms in Papua New Guinea

    Coconut palms affected by Bogia syndrome in Papua New Guinea © Cirad, M. Dollet

    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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  • La biomasse, source d’électricité économique à Madagascar

    La centrale thermoélectrique d’Andaingo, Madagascar. © Cirad, P. Montagne

    13/05/2013 - Article

    A Madagascar, la première centrale thermoélectrique à biomasse, vient d’être mise en route dans ...

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  • West Africa: fonio postharvest operations are on the road to mechanization

    Demonstration of a fonio huller in Guinea . © CIRAD, J-F Cruz

    26/04/2013 - Article

    Fonio plays a major role in enrusing food security and maintaining biodiversity in West Africa. ...

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  • Agriculture can also mitigate climate change

    Landscape mosaics are a novel way of integrating adaptation to climate change and mitigation © E. Torquebiau

    26/04/2013 - Article

    Developing farming systems that emit less greenhouse gas while remaining productive and capable ...

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  • Perrine Burnod: "It is vital to secure the land tenure rights of crop and animal farmers"

    Perrine Burnod, economist at CIRAD and co-coordinator of the special issue of Cahiers Agricultures, "Appropriations foncières et modèles agricoles" © DR

    24/04/2013 - Article

    Large-scale land grabbing first hit the headlines following the Daewoo affair in Madagascar in ...

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  • Fruits Vol. 68, no. 2

    Fruits Vol. 68, N°2 (couverture)

    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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  • Sustainable forest management policies in central Africa. Taking the informal sector into account

    Perspective N°21 - Politiques de gestion durable des forêts en Afrique centrale © Cirad

    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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    Baobabs between sky and earth

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    Trailer for the film Baobab entre ciel et terre (English version) - Director: Stéphane Corduant - Scientific Advisor: Cyril Cornu and Pascal Danthu (CIRAD) - Executive Producer: Mada-Movie - Production: CIRAD - Editing: Philippe Causse
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