A new book by almost 150 scientists from the global North and South, coordinated by CIRAD, looks at the range of strategies ...

CIRAD took part in the Bonn June Climate Meetings, which have just finished. These mid-year meetings serve to guide ...

Preventing epidemics requires early detection followed by rapid, effective steps. This means coordinating local communities ...

For the third time, CIRAD has supported a caravan organized by the the Dynamic for an AgroEcological Transition in Senegal ...

Le Cirad a participé à la Conférence sur les changements climatiques qui vient de se terminer à Bonn. Cette réunion de ...

In collaboration with Agrinatura, CIRAD has published an initial compilation of 12 stories of change relating to the DeSIRA initiative funded by the European Union. Each story shows how the research ...

Soils are not just a support: they have to be in good health for agricultural activities to be established and prosper. In Ivory Coast, the Ministry of Agriculture has brought together farmers, ...

Access to energy is a complex issue for many firms in rural parts of West Africa. Joël Blin, a CIRAD researcher specializing in chemistry applied to bioenergy processes, is coordinator of the BioStar ...

Guatemala’s community forest concessions are a success in every respect. The forest is being conserved more effectively by indigenous communities practising sustainable logging than in neighbouring ...

Can we bring wildlife back to productive oil palm plantations? This is one of the questions posed by the TRAILS project, coordinated by CIRAD, in Malaysia. It associates the local authorities, a ...

Healthy soils work well. This is the principle behind Biofunctool®, which measures three essential soil functions. It is easy to use, cheap, and robust. It is backed by a newly developed mobile app ...

Competition for light, changes in soils, hybridization between plants, and so on... Invasive exotic species are one of the main causes of biodiversity loss. To protect against this, it is vital to ...