Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development

  • CIRAD is the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions.

    Status

    CIRAD (Centre for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development) is an Epic placed under the dual supervision of the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development.

    Activities

    Its activities relate to life sciences, social sciences and engineering sciences applied to agriculture, food, the environment and land management.
    It works around 6 major thematic areas centered on food security, climate change, management of natural resources, reduction of inequalities and the fight against poverty.

    Assignment

    With its partners in the South, CIRAD produces and transmits new knowledge to support innovation and agricultural development. It puts its scientific and institutional expertise at the service of public policies in these countries and international debates on the major challenges of agriculture. It supports France's scientific diplomacy.

    Development through research

    CIRAD has a priority objective: to build sustainable agriculture, adapted to climate change, capable of feeding 10 billion human beings in 2050, while preserving the environment.

    He considers that in order to develop over the long term and develop appropriate public policies, a society must participate in the production of the knowledge it needs. This development through research is based on the ability of countries to equip themselves with an appropriate higher education and research system, supported by the public authorities, but with real autonomy of action.

    From local to global, through its lasting partnerships, it contributes to the development of an agriculture that serves everyone, and particularly small farmers, who make up the vast majority of producers.

    It thus responds to the global challenges of food security and climate change, but also of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change.

    Training and knowledge sharing

    Training, dissemination of information, sharing of knowledge and innovations naturally complete CIRAD's research mission by giving partners and development players the ability to make the choices that are theirs.

    Diploma or professional training in the countries of the South is an essential dimension. It is based on the commitment of each researcher.

    CIRAD is also a major player in dialogue between Europe and Africa. Involved in numerous European and international networks, it facilitates the access of its partners in the South to Community programs and their integration into international scientific cooperation networks.

    Partnerships

    CIRAD has a network of partners on three continents and 14 regional offices, from which it works with more than 100 countries. Its long-term partnership is structured by 23 research and teaching systems in partnership (dP) bringing together 200 institutions in Southern countries, to which 200 of its researchers are assigned (100 in Africa, 50 in Asia and 50 in South America). ).

    In France, it offers the national and international scientific community an important research and training facility, located mainly in Montpellier and in the French overseas territories.

    CIRAD is a member of two French consortia: Agreenium/IAVFF and AllEnvi.

    CIRAD in figures

    • 1650 agents, including 800 researchers.
    • Activities in partnership with more than 100 countries and 200 institutions.
    • 3 scientific departments: Biological systems (Bios), Performance of tropical production and processing systems (Persyst), Environment and societies (ES).
    • 33 research units.
    • 13 regional offices around the world.
    • Thirty or so collective research tools accessible to Southern and European partners.
    • Nearly 5 million euros devoted to doctoral training.
    • More than 400 doctoral students supervised each year, 60% of whom come from a country in the South.
    • International masters created with major schools or universities in southern countries.
    • 800 researchers and technicians from all over the world welcomed and trained each year.
    • An annual budget of 200 million euros in 2015.

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    Actors, resources and territories in development

    UMR ART-Dev develops research on the reconfiguration of territories from an economic, political and social point of view, by linking the dynamics of globalization and local dynamics

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    Agropolis Foundation

    Its purpose is to support and promote the development of international level projects (research programs and training through research) in the field of agronomy and sustainable development.

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    Agropolis International

    Agropolis International is a wide consortium based in Montpellier (France) on agricultural sciences for Mediterranean and Southern countries.

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    Device in SPAD Partnership

    In Madagascar, population growth and low agricultural productivity are jeopardizing food security. In high altitude regions, declining soil fertility, pest attacks and socio-economic constraints limit production.

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    FROM Hortsys

    The HortSys unit seeks to offer innovative horticultural systems based on agroecological functioning.

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    International Center for Research on Environment and Development

    An interdisciplinary practice of economic analysis and modeling translated into a partnership between five institutions

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    UMR BGPI

    Understand biotic interactions by integrating the scales of approach from the gene to the landscape, and thus contribute to the development of innovative and sustainable agronomic systems to fight against diseases of mainly tropical and Mediterranean cultivated plants.

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    UMR Eco&Sol

    The work carried out at Eco&Sols aims to improve understanding of the role of soil organisms and plants, as well as the interactions between them and with their environment, in biogeochemical cycles - mainly C, N and P cycles - within soils and agro-ecosystems

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    UMR Innovation

    The UMR Innovation and development in agriculture and food brings together agents from INRA, CIRAD and Montpellier Supagro. The mission is to inform the decision of public and private actors on innovation and development processes in agricultural and food systems.

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    UMR MOISA - Markets, organizations, institutions and strategies of actors

    UMR MOISA brings together researchers and teacher-researchers on the basis of the complementarity of scientific approaches and the community of research objects of several Montpellier social science teams from Cirad, Inra, Montpellier SupAgro and Ciheam-IAMM

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    UR Aïda: Agroecology and sustainable intensification of annual crops

    The Aïda unit is positioned on the intensification and sustainability of the production of annual crops in quantity and, when relevant, in quality, in particularly constrained tropical environments.

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    Agro-ecological protection of mango orchards in Réunion

    Optimize the ecological functioning of the agro-ecosystem and greatly reduce synthetic pesticides

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    Banana sector - CIRAD Innovations

    Extract from the catalog of CIRAD innovations in the Antilles-Guyana - April 2016

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    Dynamics of Congo Basin forests

    Harmonize and federate long-term monitoring systems

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    Genetic improvement of forest species

    CIRAD is developing genetic improvement strategies and multi-criteria selection processes to obtain varieties suited to the needs of its public or industrial partners.

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    Improve the lifespan of wood-based products and structures

    Natural durability and low environmental impact preservation treatment, CIRAD conducts research to promote a match between the durability of wood and the service life of structures.

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    Improving agroforestry systems in the humid tropics

    Improving the management of agroforestry systems, ensuring their environmental, technical and social sustainability represents an important challenge for research and development.

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    Know the trees to better manage the environment

    In the equatorial forest, one frequently finds more than a hundred species of trees on the same hectare. But all these trees do not have the same behavior and do not offer the same services.

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    Multifunctional landscapes

    Mainstreaming biodiversity and ecosystem services

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    Practical manual of direct seeding in Madagascar;

    Popular work on DMC operating principles: litter, functional biodiversity, biological activity; comparison of conventional systems for and DMC on MO dynamics, fertility, herbicide control, plant health.

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    Return of trees to tropical cultivated areas

    Assisted natural regeneration (ANN)

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