Contact
Jean-Charles Maillard
Regional Director for Continental Southeast Asia
Hanoi, Vietnam
E-mail
Secretariat
Laurent Vaysse
Correspondent
CIRAD Office
Research & Developement Building
3th Floor
Kasetsart University
10900 Bangkok
Thailand
Tel.: + 662 942 76 27
E-mail
Continental Southeast Asia
CIRAD is working with organizations and universities in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam to step up scientific exchanges and regionalize research operations centring on common agricultural development issues.
Countries in which CIRAD works
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Research fields
- Rubber growing and natural rubber technology
- Aquaculture and halieutic biodiversity
- Conservation agriculture and direct seeding mulch-based cropping systems (DMC)
- Epidemiology of emerging and trans-border animal diseases (avian influenza, etc)
- Food security, food sanitary quality, geographical indications and socioeconomics of markets
- Integrated management of natural resources (water, soils, etc)
A few details
Around thirty CIRAD researchers are working at national and regional research centres, higher education establishments and rural development organizations.
Priority is given to regional certificate courses
Collaboration with higher education establishments in the region. Certificate courses and vocational training, workshops, teaching sessions, study trips and other courses.
- Higher-level courses run with universities:
- Franco-Thai Masters in infectious, vector-borne and food-borne diseases (MIVA).
- Certificate courses from the National University of Laos and the Royal University of Agriculture in Phnom Penh.
- Numerous PhD or Masters students from throughout Asia supervised each year.
- Short-term teaching and training courses run for students from Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand in host laboratories in the North.