1984-2024: 40 years in an ever-changing world

The brochure looks back over its history since the signing of the decree confirming its founding, in June 1984, focusing on three aspects:

• results and impacts,
• partnerships,
• and future prospects.

The brochure, with more than 40 pages, is lavishly illustrated and includes original interviews with a number of CIRAD's partners.

Contents

Editorials

• Elisabeth Claverie de Saint Martin, CIRAD CEO
• Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Secretary of State for Development and International Partnerships, French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs
• Sylvie Retailleau, Minister of Higher Education and Research

Timeline

A two-page timeline showing the highlights of CIRAD's history, in relation to major global events.

Results and impacts

From human and social science to genomics, an overview of CIRAD's research, which generates useful science geared towards results and impact.

• Agroecological transitions, from food security to health security: one transition, many issues - Interview with Jean-Michel Risède and Eric Scopel
• Water and society - Photographs 
• From wood to biodiversity... a history of forest monitoring mechanisms - Account
• Characterization, processing and development... spotlight on biomass - Photographs 
• Health: from research to policymaking - Account
• West Africa: a bright future for local milk - Photographs
• Food security: an eventful history - Account
• Compulsive botany - Account

Partnerships

Who are the partners on which CIRAD's identity and activities are grounded?

• MALICA, building linkages to help feed people - Interview with Dao The Anh and Nguyen Thi Mai Huong
• CIRAD and EMBRAPA, working to build a desirable shared future - Interview with Ana Euler
• CIRAD and producer organizations in West Africa, strategic partnerships for greater impact - Account
• CIRAD, spearheading dynamic regional cooperation in the French overseas regions - Account
• Training: from one generation to the next, times change but the spirit stays the same - Interview with Jacqueline Rakotoarisa and Salohy Rafanomezantsoa

What about the future? 

Using foresight and investigating the potential of artificial intelligence to imagine the CIRAD of the future.

• Artificial intelligence and what it can do for agriculture - Account
• What does "development" mean? - Interview with Catia Grisa and Kako Nubukpo
• Looking before we leap, a brief history of foresight - Interview with Fatma Zahra Rostom and Marie de Lattre Gasquet