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Food security: a range of tools for stabilizing prices The 2007-2008 food crisis put price instability back at the heart of the food security debate. A study coordinated by CIRAD has shown that contrary to what has previously been thought, managing the risks arising from price instability by resorting to futures markets and food aid is not enough. (...)

CIRAD is involved in programming French energy research As an associate member of the newly founded Alliance nationale de coordination de la recherche pour l’énergie, CIRAD will be involved in the thematic group on biomass.

CIRAD at the 2009 World Forestry Congress For its 13th edition, the World Forestry Congress will be looking at the vital balance to be struck in terms of forestry development. It is to be held from 18 to 23 October 2009, in Buenos Aires. CIRAD, which is deeply committed to this topic, will be taking part in the event through several (...)

Land for sale! Food security, agrofuels, speculation... the market for land for sale or rent has been booming over the past two years. The phenomenon is nothing new, but has never before been seen on such a huge scale. The main documents relating to the conference organized by CIRAD on 3 September 2009, on the (...)

Bois et forêts des tropiques No. 301 – World Forestry Congress Special Issue An issue whose articles illustrate the thematic keywords for the congress: forests in development, a vital balance.

Alain Billand: "Forest development involves both social and economic issues" On the occasion of the 2009 World Forestry Congress, organized in Buenos Aires by the FAO and the Republic of Argentina from 18 to 25 October, CIRAD, a precursor in the field of forestry development, is taking stock of its experience. Alain Billand, a forest management specialist, looks at the (...)

CIRAD celebrates science at its research sites

As in previous years, CIRAD is contributing to the Fête de la Science (Science Festival) and organizing various events in Frence and its overseas departments.

The CIRAD Centre in Montpellier is opening its laboratories in the Maison de la Technologie (technology centre) for an open day, on 18 (...)

Six top agricultural research and educational institutions launch AGREENIUM INRA, CIRAD, AgroParisTech, Agrocampus Ouest, Montpellier SupAgro and ENV Toulouse are the six founder members of AGREENIUM, the French national consortium for agriculture, food, animal health and the environment.

Durabilité naturelle et préservation des bois tropicaux A guide to tropical wood preservation in both tropical and temperate zones.

A unique African plant herbarium at CIRAD The dry tropical African rangeland grass and flower herbarium held at CIRAD in Montpellier comprises no fewer than 70 000 specimens of 5500 species, 60 types and plants, some of them almost 100 years old. The herbarium itself was set up in Mali in 1963, and after a time in Maisons-Alfort (...)

FruiTrop issue 170 The latest issue of the journal FruiTrop, published by the CIRAD Market News Service, with a special report on avocado.

Saving water in the Maghreb: farmers and researchers have joined forces How can water saving procedures be introduced in the irrigation schemes of the Maghreb? For the SIRMA project team, the answer lies in action research, initial and refresher training, and stakeholder networks. After four years, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia are now seeing (...)

La fièvre catarrhale ovine An information booklet containing the fundamentals and latest news on bluetongue, which originated in developing countries but has been affecting Europe since 2000.

A booklet about bluetongue An information booklet on bluetongue, produced on the initiative of CIRAD’s SAVOIRS team (Service d’Appui à la Valorisation Opérationnelle de l’Information sur la Recherche Scientifique) and funded by some twenty institutional partners, is available on request. It follows on from the epizootic that (...)

Tropical rainforest research and management: CIRAD is taking part in an international conference in French Guiana from 22 to 28 November An international conference on Knowledge-Based Management of Tropical Rainforests, co-organized by the Écosystèmes forestiers public interest group (GIP ECOFOR), INRA, CIRAD, the IRD, the CNRS, AgroParisTech and the University of Antilles-Guyane, is being held from 22 to 28 November in Cayenne (...)

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