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
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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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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30/01/2012 - Article
The first workshop for stakeholders in innovation and agricultural transfer (RITA) networks in ...
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19/01/2012 - Press release
The third ICOPE (International Conference on Oil Palm and Environment), co-organized by PT Smart ...
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18/01/2012 - Article
Tilapia breeding is profitable only if it is solely focused on male populations. Hormonal ...
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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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02/02/2012 - Article
Notes for the course on water economics and governance run by IWEGA (International Centre for ...
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Sugarcane, cotton, banana, cocoa, rubber, forest resources, etc