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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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• Deforestation in Madagascar: balancing development and biodiversity conservation

  

  20/03/2019 - Science

  The President of the Republic of Madagascar, Andry Rajoelina, unveiled an ambitious reforestation plan at the One Planet Summit on 14 March in Nairobi. This announcement followed on from the recent findings published by CIRAD in Biological Conservation and cited in a communication by the ...

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• Plinio Sist: “Urgent action is needed to restore tropical forest ecosystems at the territorial level”

  

  21/03/2019 - Questions for...

  Deforestation is not a recent phenomenon. But deforestation on a massive scale is. Yet this has ...

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• Environment and sustainable development: IRD, CIRAD and UNEP sign a cooperation framework agreement

  

  18/03/2019 - Institutional

  IRD, CIRAD and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have just signed a framework ...

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• One Planet Summit: CIRAD mobilised for the climate and environment in Africa

  

  13/03/2019 - Event

  CIRAD is participating in the third edition of the One Planet Summit on 14 March 2019 in ...

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• Tackling the employment challenge in the Sahel by investing in food value chains

  

  07/03/2019 - Event

  Population pressure, climate change and a rise in conflicts raise huge issues for countries in ...

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• CIRAD is working for gender equality

  

  08/03/2019 - Institutional

  As the European Commission marks 20 years of policies devoted to supporting gender equality in ...

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• Boosting micronutrients in food through agroecology to address malnutrition in the Sahel

  

  27/02/2019 - Science

  Senegal and Ethiopia are implementing an ambitious project aimed at increasing the presence of ...

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• Environmental policies and incentives: payments may prove counter-productive

  

  04/03/2019 - Science

  Why are some conservation and development policies so ineffective? Driss Ezzine de Blas, a ...

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• Making international standards more credible: the case of the FSC forest management label

  

  05/03/2019 - Just out

  The global organisation Forest Stewardship Council (FSC International) regulates the FSC forest ...

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