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CIRAD

The French agricultural research and international cooperation organization working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions.

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• Transforming our food system to ensure a sustainable future

  

  05/12/2018 - Science

  By 2050, the world will have almost 10 billion people. It will be impossible to feed everyone without exacerbating poverty, accelarting deforestation and increasing GHG emissions unless we start making substantial changes to our food system now. This issue is covered in a new report, Creating a ...

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• Vincent Blanfort: "At last! Agriculture has a place in climate talks at COP24"

  

  03/12/2018 - Questions for...

  COP24, which has just begun in Katowice, Poland, marks a first in terms of taking account of ...

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• Senegal: the eradication of the tsetse fly will boost the livestock sector

  

  07/12/2018 - Event

  Tstetes flies have been eradicated in an entire region of Senegal. These insects carry diseases ...

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• We must act now if we are to feed the world sustainably

  

  15/11/2018 - Institutional

  In an opinion column in Le Monde dated 15 November, the Presidents of CIRAD and INRA called for ...

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• Agro-ecology: a way for farming systems in the global South to adapt to climate change

  

  30/11/2018 - Science

  A book on the agro-ecological transition within farming systems in the global South, written by ...

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• Inactivating genes can boost crop genetic diversity

  

  28/11/2018 - Science

  Researchers from CIRAD and INRA recently showed that inactivating a gene, RECQ4, leads to a ...

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• "4 per 1000" Initiative: the scientific community launches the Sète Call

  

  09/11/2018 - Event

  Researchers working on the "4 per 1000" initiative, meeting in Sète on 7 and 8 November 2018 for ...

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• Land Use and Food Security in 2050: a Narrow Road

  

  15/10/2018 - Just out

  How can we best use land to ensure food and nutritional security for all? It will ba a hard, ...

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• Food | Innovative strategies are emerging within increasingly urbanized societies

  

  14/11/2018 - Event

  In a world with increasing numbers of urbanized societies, consumers are increasingly concerned ...

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