Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:00:24 +0100https://www.cirad.fr/en/press-area/press-releases/2024/desertification-cop16UNCCD COP16 is being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from 2 to 13 December. CIRAD is contributing, alongside its international partners such as the CGIAR and FAO, on topics such as sustainable land management, soil restoration, territory governance and defending pastoralism.Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:00:24 +0100https://www.cirad.fr/en/press-area/press-releases/2024/partnership-in-support-of-sustainable-agriculture-in-the-global-southThe French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), the Agence française de développement (AFD) and its subsidiary Expertise France have gone one step further in terms of international cooperation by signing an ambitious framework agreement that for the first time includes another AFD subsidiary dedicated to the private sector: Proparco.Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:30:23 +0100https://www.cirad.fr/en/press-area/press-releases/2024/cirad-reveals-the-impacts-of-ten-international-projectsCIRAD has published its 2020-2024 Evaluation Report. This analysis of ten research pathways conducted in partnership worldwide highlights the organization's impact in support of transforming farming and food systems. CIRAD's impact assessment approach, known as ImpresS, makes it a key player in terms of analysing and learning from its operations.Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:05:27 +0100https://www.cirad.fr/en/press-area/press-releases/2024/improving-disease-surveillance-in-europeThe MOnitoring Outbreak for Disease Surveillance in a Data Science Context (MOOD) project, coordinated by the French Agricultural Research and Cooperation organization (CIRAD, France) and funded by the European Horizon 2020 programme, aimed at improving early detection, assessment and surveillance of current and potential infectious disease threats in Europe. Its final scientific conference will be held on 26 and 27 November at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS) in Rome, Italy.Wed, 20 Nov 2024 14:35:47 +0100https://www.cirad.fr/en/press-area/press-releases/2024/2024-ecological-engineering-prizeThe Réunion integrated natural environment conservation and restoration project and the players involved have been awarded the Prix national du Génie Écologique 2024 (2024 national ecological engineering prize), organized by the Association fédérative des acteurs de l’Ingénierie et du Génie Écologique (A-IGÉco) and the Office français de la biodiversité (OFB), in the category for management practices that foster biodiversity. A delegation from the Réunion National Park and the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD) Regional Office for Réunion- Mayotte-Indian Ocean will be attending the official ceremony at the Biodiversity and Ecological Engineering Exhibition in Paris. Jean-Philippe Delorme, Director of the Réunion National Park, will be presenting the integrated project on Tuesday 19 November and will receive the prize on Wesdnesday 20 November, on behalf of the project.Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:08:29 +0100