CIRAD 2009: a new geographical partnership strategy

29/06/2010 - Article

The CIRAD Annual Report is now out. It contains a selection of research results illustrating the organization's scientific operations. The introduction, entitled "Les faits marquants" (Institutional highlights), covers the high spots in the life of the organization, particularly its new geographical partnership strategy: 25 priority research and teaching structures have been identified in Africa, Asia and Latin America. These structures underline one of the founding principles of CIRAD's operations: partnership.

Contents

EDITORIAL

INSTITUTIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

A new geographical partnership strategy for CIRAD
Research and education join forces to build the future
Training and higher education, an in-depth rethink
CIRAD on line
Monitoring in support of strategy
An information network and a platform on the world’s plants
A set of references for quality in research
Studying and conserving agrobiodiversity in Montpellier

RESEARCH

Line 1. Ecological intensification

The banana streak virus: an extreme case of parasitism
Understanding banana domestication: a crucial step towards improvement
A dessert banana breeding platform in the West Indies
Recombination and viral emergence: a begomovirus model
New citrus rootstocks for the Mediterranean Basin
The first coffee DNA microarray
Modelling the impact of refuges on pest resistance
A coconut hybrid to control lethal yellowing disease in Ghana
Sorghum genetic diversity in Duupa farmers’ fields
Agro-ecological crop protection
No-tillage with cover crops for the Brazilian Cerrados
Cocoa mirid control recommendations
Collaborative statistics on livestock in southern Africa

Line 2. Biomass energy

Jatropha curcas , a fuel of the future for the South?
Producing charcoal for energy purposes by pyrolysis
Managing the sustainable fuelwood resource in Central Africa
Producing energy from biomass in à Madagascar
Biofuels for professional fisheries

Line 3 . Food

Fonio, the rediscovery of a traditional cereal
Disseminating new quality foods in Vietnam and Laos
Camargue aromatic rice
Food security: combining tools to stabilize prices
What is the environmental impact of food products?

Line 4 . Animal health, emerging diseases

African swine fever: a threat to livestock herds in tropical countries
Climate change and emerging animal diseases
An epidemiological risk management network in South-East Asia
CaribVET: the Caribbean Animal Health Network
Culicoides surveillance in France

Line 5 . Public policy

Feeding the world in 2050: an achievable goal, according to the Agrimonde foresight study
Assessing the sustainability of fish farming systems
Private goods and public services: the need for compromise
Animal production, the treasure of the poor
Large-scale land investments
Responding to climate change: building local and national capacity

Line 6 . Rural areas

Understanding the role of tropical rainforests in the carbon cycle
Monitoring forest dynamics in Central Africa
Forests of the Congo Basin
Sustainable management of baobabs in Madagascar
Imogolites: natural nanoparticles that sequester nickel
Controlling nitrate pollution risks in Réunion
Locust outbreaks in Madagascar: predicting risks to enhance their management
Saving water in North African irrigated farming systems

CIRAD IN A NUTSHELL

Indicators
Organization