The 2008 CIRAD Annual Report: implementing new strategy decisions

Contents

• Foreword

• Research
Helping to invent ecologically intensive agriculture to feed the world
Phylogenomics and information transfer between species
An auxin transport unification mechanism explains the formation of new plant organs
DigiPlante project team
Hevea transgenesis—a tool for gaining insight into stress response mechanisms
Preserving and using vanilla diversity—a germplasm collection in Réunion
A method for the detection of the banana bract mosaic virus
New methods for taxonomic classification and identification of Xanthomonas spp. bacteria
Sustainable ecological intensification in Nordeste, Brazil
Designing pesticide-free banana plantations—modelling contributions
Crop protection—CIRAD organized the first ENDURE network conference

Analysing conditions for the development of bio-energies and ensuring that they benefit people in developing countries
Cottonseed oil as fuel
Biofuels in Burkina Faso—a multidisciplinary approach

Innovating to make food accessible, varied and safe
Rising agricultural product prices
French interministerial food security group
ID3—towards an alternative world economy model
Essential oils to control infectious diseases in fish farms
Mango—gaining insight into the fruit's past to foresee its future

Foreseeing and managing infectious disease risks linked to wildlife and domestic animals
Contagious bovine pleuropneumonia—new diagnostic, molecular epidemiology and vaccination methods
Emerging diseases—evaluating the sanitary and socioeconomic risks
Monitoring avian influenza viruses

Helping to reduce structural inequality and poverty
Public policy in Madagascar: ten years of research
A Hevea research platform in Thailand
What can we draw from the operation to make fish farming in the Philippines comply with EU food safety standards?

Understanding the relations between nature, agriculture and society better, so as to manage rural areas in the tropics sustainably
Adaptive modelling in support of consultation concerning land allocation
CIRAD at the World Water Congress
"Regards croisés sur la Tapoa ": an assessment of community management of natural resources in Africa
Reconstituting former plant covers using soil organic matter
• CIRAD in a nutshell
Indicators
Organization in April 2009
CIRAD worldwide