Bee on a citron flower, Guadeloupe. D. Bazille © CIRAD

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is a vital part of all agricultural production, but farming systems centring on homogenizing practices and landscapes shrink that biodiversity and often pose a threat to ecosystems . To foster the emergence or productive, sustainable and resilient systems, agricultural research must take account the living world in its entirety, and the interactions between communities within production systems and landscapes or at the interface between agrosystems and natural ecosystems.

Books and documents

Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems, Faure G., Chiffoleau Y., Goulet F., Temple L., Touzard J.M. (ed.). Quæ, 2018, 259 p.
Biodiversity conservation in Southeast Asia: challenges in a changing environment, Morand S., Lajaunie C., Satrawaha R. (ed.). Routledge, 2018, 315 p.
Biodiversity and health: Linking life, ecosystems and societies, Morand S., Lajaunie C. (ed.). ISTE, 2018, 300 p.
Biodiversity and development, Daniel Barthélémy, CIRAD, 2013.
Cultivating biodiversity to transform agriculture, E. Hainzelin (ed.), Springer, 2013.

Video

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Scientific publications

See CIRAD's publications on biodiversity