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CIRAD is convinced that the social and environmental aspects of development transcend economics. It has put sustainable development firmly at the heart of its...

Coffee is the world's leading agricultural resource, in value terms. Coffee growing generates income and jobs in producing countries, and is primarily...

Oil palm is the world's leading oil crop, and is vitally important for many tropical countries. Its rapid expansion is raising new issues for research, in...

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As the world races to reduce carbon emissions, a new scientific review published in Nature Climate Change underscores the untapped potential of agroforestry as...

Research in partnership is in CIRAD's DNA. Over nigh on a century, it has allowed us to build a unique wealth of relationships, knowledge and expertise....

West African countries are particularly badly affected by the impact of climate change and population growth. CIRAD and its partners are thus focusing their...

CIRAD is both a research organization and a French public development aid instrument. Our primary operating zones are Africa and the...

Discover CIRAD's newsletters and receive regular updates on our projects, partnerships and expertise, as well as news of scientific progress and...

A new unit working to foster an integrated animal health approach. The aim of the UMR is to improve animal health, public health and food security in the...

Society's confidence in scientific research has been put to the test lately, notably due to the many crises affecting humanity. This has prompted CIRAD to...

Associating several disciplines—botany, ecology, applied mathematics and computer science—is a major technical and scientific challenge for modern...

En Afrique australe, l'Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), le Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) et le Centre de coopération...

In the countries of Latin America, CIRAD has a range of activities in cooperation and longstanding expertise, and is currently re-centring its operations...

UMR ABSys supports the agroecological transition by producing knowledge and methods for the assessment and design of tree crop-based cropping systems,...

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

Sugarcane is grown in more than a hundred countries, by independent farmers and agroindustrial firms. While the sugar and rum markets have always been the...

The CIRAD institutional photo library offers thousands of photos of farming in warm regions, taken by its scientists and accessible on the Internet.

Cotton is an industrial crop, grown mainly for the textile, food and cosmetics sectors. It is one of the mainstays of cropping systems in tropical and...

A study by CIRAD, INRIA, the University of Montpellier and several French and European partners has demonstrated the merits of a language model applied to...

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

Deforestation is continuing in tropical regions, despite a number of public and private commitments to put a stop to it. The latest issue of Perspective...

From its regional offices, CIRAD conducts joint operations with more than 100 countries.

CIRAD employs 1750 people, with a scientific staff of 1200 including 750 researchers split between three scientific departments and 28 research units.

CIRAD is heavily involved in training junior scientists and French and overseas students. It contributes to PhD courses and Masters teaching. It helps its...

How does CIRAD's research contribute to sustainable development in tropical and Mediterranean countries? How can we build research operations that...

Natural rubber is the leading biosourced elastomer. It accounts for 48% of the global elastomer market. It is mostly (80%) produced by family farms of between...

By conducting research, supporting producers, and providing training, CIRAD has been working for 60 years to foster agriculture and sustainable food supplies...

How can we intensify cocoa production in a sustainable way, to satisfy growing demand? The sustainability of the value chain depends on its capacity to adapt...

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

CIRAD has 28 research units split between three scientific departments.

One of CIRAD's roles – as a public targeted research organization – is to inform public action, policy and instruments. This relies on the scientific...

Open science is a global movement for dissemination of and free access to scientific knowledge, to which CIRAD is committed. This drive aims to foster sharing...

From our regional offices in tropical and Mediterranean countries, the French overseas regions and Montpellier, we work in partnership with more than 100...

Fruit and vegetables are high added-value products with high nutritional value, rich in vitamins, minerals, fibre and unique natural molecules. They are also...

Satisfying growing demand for animal protein in developing countries is a major challenge for the coming twenty years. However, animal production uses large...

CIRAD has been working for 60 years in Réunion, its first base outside mainland France, where it has top-level infrastructures. Its R&D operations have...

In the Southeast Asian island countries, research by CIRAD and its public- and private-sector partners centres on natural resource management, biodiversity and...

CIRAD has observed that territories are currently the scale on which the most significant progress is being made and the most tangible solutions found,...

On a global level, food and nutritional insecurity persists and is evolving towards new types of food imbalances. While the number of people suffering from...

The capacity to produce improved planting material suited to different and changing growing conditions is an absolute priority in order to reduce the...

UR AIDA works on the intensification and sustainability of annual crop production in constrained tropical environments. Its research aims to ensure optimum use...

The Montpellier centre is CIRAD's main installation, and is home to two thirds of its staff members. More than 30 research units are based at the centre,...

À partir de ses directions régionales, le Cirad mène des activités de coopération avec plus de 100 pays.

Le Cirad est l'organisme français de recherche agronomique et de coopération internationale pour le développement durable des régions tropicales et...

In Île-de-France (Paris region), CIRAD has research, appraisal and training operations centring on sustainable development on two sites: the International...