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At the Widou nurseries in Ferlo, Senegal, young Fula men water the seedlings of future trees that will be used in the Great Green Wall crossing the African Sahel from East to West. As well as being a trans-national symbol of the fight against climate change, the project also aims to encourage loçal people to replant an environment that is now highly fragile, and more generally to step up rational ecosystem management. © V. Blanfort, CIRAD

Event 8 October 2026

Biodiversity COP and Climate COP: is agriculture a cause of or a solution to global issues?

Rural caatinga landscape in the rainy season, in semi-arid inland Ceará

Science at work 7 October 2026

Managing water better in semi-arid territories: the example of Ceará, Brazil

Mapping pastoral mobility in Senegal © J-D. Cesaro, CIRAD

Just out 6 October 2026

Pastoral livestock farmers map their territories

Territories and collective action

Propagating in vitro plantlets in Vitropic's laboratories © S. Della Mussia, CIRAD

Event 2 October 2026

Vitropic, a CIRAD subsidiary, celebrates 40 years of crop innovation

Educational activity at the Lycée français François Mitterrand, led by Géraldine Derroire, an ecologist at CIRAD

Science at work 30 September 2026

Discover the trees of Brazil via a card game

Klue Tiparot, a banana variety originating from Laos/Burma, photographed during surveys for the study. The contribution of Musa balbisiana is marked, and clearly visible to an expert eye. That of M. acuminata comes mainly from the local sub-species M. burmannica, and it takes molecular analysis to see its involvement. © M. Chabannes, CIRAD

Results & impact 29 September 2026

Cultivated banana biodiversity: the key role of wild relations