Biological Diversity and Agroecological Systems - Soil and Crop Health
How can we make use of biological and organic processes and resources to design sustainable practices?
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Benin
Benin has many assets for becoming a major centre of activity for CIRAD. It benefits from good institutional stability, dynamic public policies aimed at developing the agricultural sector by strengthening value chains, and a quality National Agricultural Research System (NARS), whose activities are unified by a competitive funding mechanism. Benin’s research institutions also have a long and ongoing history with CIRAD.
Moringa oleifera (Moringaceae) pods in Benin. © CIRAD, P. Marnotte
Main research areas
- Research management
- Cotton production
- Oil palm genetics
- Seed production
- Yam cultivation
- Cropping systems for rice, fruit, and market gardening production
- Value chain development
- Food security
Platforms in partnership
Agro-silvo-pastoral systems in West Africa
How can we work with farmers in West Africa to design innovative, intensive and ecologically-friendly crop-livestock systems?
Main partners
- Faculty of Agricultural Sciences at the University of Abomey-Calavi
- University of Parakou
- National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRAB)
- Africa Rice Centre (AfricaRice)
- International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA)
- Cotonou Entomological Research Centre (CREC-Cotonou)
