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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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  • RuralStruc: reinvesting in family farming to facilitate rural change in the South

    To boost incomes, RuralStruc recommends fostering links between town and country by strengthening the role of small towns © CIRAD, B. Losch

    07/02/2012 - Article

    Despite 25 years of liberalization, the structure of the economies of sub-Saharan Africa has changed very little, and agriculture is still a major lever for change. This was pinpointed by a wide-ranging study, RuralStruc, which compared the situation of rural households and the role of ...

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  • CIRAD at the 2012 Paris International Agricultural Show: animal production in the South, at the heart of global issues

    Herd of zebus © CIRAD, P. Dugué

    07/02/2012 - Press release

    CIRAD will be at the 48th Paris International Agricultural Show, from 25 February to 4 March at ...

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  • Jean-Pierre Bastié: "RITAs, an appropriate response to the specificities of farming in the French overseas regions"

    Jean-Pierre Bastié, adviser for overseas regions at the Directorate General for Agricultural, Agrifood and Land Use Policy (DGPAAT) at the Ministry of Agriculture, in charge of implementing the decisions made by the Interministerial Committee for Overseas regions (CIOM). © CIRAD, E. Bru

    30/01/2012 - Article

    The first workshop for stakeholders in innovation and agricultural transfer (RITA) networks in ...

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  • ICOPE 2012: The environmental and social issues surrounding sustainable oil palm growing

    Young oil palm contour planting with legume cover crops to enrich the soil and for biological control © CIRAD, P. Hornus

    19/01/2012 - Press release

    The third ICOPE (International Conference on Oil Palm and Environment), co-organized by PT Smart ...

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  • In tilapia, sex is all in the mind

    Male tilapia grow faster than females © CIRAD, J.F. Baroiller

    18/01/2012 - Article

    Tilapia breeding is profitable only if it is solely focused on male populations. Hormonal ...

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  • Aquaculture microbiology and biotechnology Vol. 2

    Aquaculture microbiology and biotechnology Vol. 2 Coordinated by Didier Montet andt Ramesh C. Ray Science Publishers - CRC Press 2011  (cover)

    01/02/2012 - Article

    This book is the second in a set of two. It covers the post-harvest aspects of aquaculture, the ...

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  • An Introduction to Water Economics and Governance in Southern Africa

    An Introduction to Water Economics and Governance in Southern Africa Stefano Farolfi, Joao Mutondo and Bruno Araujo Imprensa universitaria 2011 (cover, Portuguese version)

    02/02/2012 - Article

    Notes for the course on water economics and governance run by IWEGA (International Centre for ...

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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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