Since January 1st, 2011, our activities, which were previously carried out by Cirad’s service unit “Capacity building for livestock management” are undertaken within the frame of the Public Agency "France Veterinary International” (GIP FVI).

The Public Agency GIP FVI’s objectives are to coordinate the French veterinary offer for capacity building and technical cooperation. Its members are: two ministries (Ministry of agriculture, food, fisheries, rurality and spacial planning – Maaprat and Ministry of foreign and european affairs – Maee), public agencies (agency for food, environmental and occupational health safety – Anses, Cirad, French veterinary schools and National school of veterinary services, National school for Maaprat’s staff – Infoma), as well as private structures (French association for managers and executives of public veterinary laboratories – Adilva, Agronomists and veterinaries without borders – AVSF, French private group for international veterinary cooperation – CVPFI, Animal husbandry institute, and the Industry of veterinary drugs and reagents union – Simv). FVI’s manager is also managing the National school of veterinary services, collaborating centre of the World organization for animal health (OIE) for the training of official veterinarians.
Assigned to the joint research unit CMAEE “Control of exotic and emerging animal diseases” (Cirad, INRA) , the team “Capacity building for livestock management and tropical animal health” is managed by a FVI staff assigned to the team.
Teaching and training in livestock production and veterinary medicine address four major stakes: they both fit within the scope of the fundamental mandates of Cirad, they contribute to the structure of a network of scientists and development specialists who share common methods and approaches, they allow to spread the knowledge produced by Cirad’s scientists among development actors, finally, they correspond to a need from Cirad’s partners like research structures or development institutions.