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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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  • Agroforestry: interactions between products and environmental services

    Coffea arabica under Eucalyptus deglupta (top) or Erythrina poeppigiana (bottom) in Costa Rica © CIRAD, J.-M. Harmand

    21/05/2013 - Article

    As well as providing both food and non-food products, agroforestry also provides numerous environmental services. The SAFSE research project, which has just begun, should eventually result in a knowledge base that will serve to optimize trade-offs and synergies between products and other ...

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  • Robert Barbault: "Agriculture, a type of biodiversity orchestrated by man for his own ends"

    Robert Barbault, Lecturer at the University of Paris VI and Director of the Institut fédératif d'écologie fondamentale et appliquée at the Museum national d’histoire naturelle in Paris

    22/05/2013 - Article

    VIDEO (in French). How can we characterize the link between biodiversity and agriculture? Can we ...

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  • CIRAD is celebrating biodiversity in Montpellier

    Poster for the Fête de la biodiversité Montpellier 2013 © Ville de Montpellier

    22/05/2013 - Article

    Sorghum, rice, cowpea, fonio, groundnut, millet... the list goes on. The biodiversity of ...

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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 ...

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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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  • Notre santé et la biodiversité

    Notre santé et la biodiversité Tous ensemble pour préserver le vivant Gilles Pipien, Serge Morand Editions Buchet Chastel  2013  (cover)

    22/05/2013 - Article

    Parasitism, animal pathologies, resistance to antibiotics, the danger of endocrine disruptors, ...

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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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    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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