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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 ...

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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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  • More than 30 000 plant seed lots in Montpellier…

    Checking the varietal purity of seeds before labelling them with a barcode that will be kept throughout their time in the laboratory (sometimes several decades) © CIRAD, P Lajous

    15/05/2013 - Press release

    The Montpellier Tropical Biological Resource Centre (CRB-T), founded in 2006 by CIRAD, serves to ...

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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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Questions for...

  • 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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  • 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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Institutional

  • Mediterranean agriculture méditerranéenne: coping with global change

    Michel Eddi, CIRAD President Managing Director (front row, right) and François Houllier, INRA Chairman and Managing Director (on his right), in Meknès, Morocco, in late April 2013 © CIRAD, J.-L. Battini

    23/05/2013 - Article

    What are the research priorities for and prospects of partnerships between France, Morocco, ...

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Coming up

  • 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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  • Conference-debates: questioning biodiversity

    Olive trees © CIRAD

    08/04/2013 - Press release

    Two conference-debates, open to all and organized jointly by Montpellier City Council and CIRAD, ...

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  • Teachers discover research in Languedoc-Roussillon

    2011 Research Open Days: participants monitoring the hydric and tensiometric profile of a wheat plot

    25/03/2013 - Press release

    On 25 and 26 March 2013, more than forty teachers and careers advisers from secondary and high ...

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Just out

  • 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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Events

  • From 24/05/2013 to 25/05/2013 - Montpellier, France

    Fête de la biodiversité

    Organized by Montpellier City Council. With the participation of CIRAD.

    More info on the event website
  • AISA 2013 logo

    From 29/05/2013 to 31/05/2013 - Nairobi, Kenya

    International Workshop on Agricultural Innovation Systems in Africa

    Co-organized by CIRAD through the JOLISAA project.

    Presentation and programme
  • From 02/06/2013 to 07/06/2013 - La Grande Motte, France

    NIR2013 - 16th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy

    Co-organized by CIRAD, the IRD, IRSTEA and Montpellier SupAgro.

    More info on the event website
  • On 04/06/2013 - Nogent-Sur-Marne, France

    Greening Rural Economies

    Une conférence de Bina Agarwal, organisée par le Cirad et le Cired avec le soutien d'Agropolis Fondation.

    Présentation et inscription (PDF - 143.85 ko)
  • From 04/06/2013 to 05/06/2013 - Paris, France

    Les Circuits Courts de Proximité - Renouer les liens entre territoires et consommation alimentaire

    SFER-CCP Symposium, organized by UMR SADAPT, the Laboratoire d’Etudes Rurales, AgroCampusOuest and the SFER. With the participation of CIRAD.

    More info on the SFER website
  • From 04/06/2013 to 06/06/2013 - Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast

    L'agriculture face aux défis de l'alimentation et de la nutrition en Afrique : quels apports de la recherche en zone cotonnière ? (AGRAR-2013)

    With the participation of CIRAD.

    More info on the CIRAD in continental West Africa website
  • On 07/06/2013 - Anvers, Belgique

    Biorefineries, biobased product and bioenergy: LAC-EU Science-Industry Matchmaking

    Un événement organisé par The Institute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach (VIB-Ugent) dans le cadre du projet FP7 ALCUE-KBBE coordonné par le Cirad.

    + d'infos sur le site de l'Institute of Plant Biotechnology Outreach
  • From 11/06/2013 to 13/06/2013 - Saint-Denis, Réunion

    1st International Forum on Public Health Surveillance and Response in island territories

    Organized by the Indian Ocean Commission, with the support of the AFD, the Agence de Santé Océan Indien and the Institut de Veille Sanitaire. With the participation of CIRAD.

    More info on the event website
  • From 13/06/2013 to 15/06/2013 - Montpellier, France

    Fieldwork Relations in the context of Development or Emergency

    International conference of the Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD), co-organized by the AFD, CIRAD, the IRD, Montpellier SupAgro, and the Universities of Neuchatel and Uppsala.

    More info on the event website
  • ISSCT congress logo

    From 24/06/2013 to 27/06/2013 - São Paulo, Brazil

    XXVIII Congress of the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists (ISSCT)

    With the participation of CIRAD.

    More info on the ISSCT website
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