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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] CIRAD - Agricultural Research for Development
  • Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 19:48:53 -0400

CIRAD - Agricultural Research for Development
http://www.cirad.fr/en

CIRAD

*A French research centre working with developing countries to tackle
international agricultural and development issues*In a nutshell

CIRAD is a French research centre working with developing countries to
tackle international agricultural and development issues.
Status

CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development)
is a public industrial and commercial enterprise (EPIC) under the joint
authority of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs.
Mandate

CIRAD works with the whole range of developing countries to generate and
pass on new knowledge, support agricultural development and fuel the debate
on the main global issues concerning agriculture.

CIRAD is a targeted research organization, and bases its operations on
development needs, from field to laboratory and from a local to a global
scale.
Activities

CIRAD's activities involve the life sciences, social sciences and
engineering sciences, applied to agriculture, food and rural territories.

CIRAD works hand-in-hand with local people and the local environment, on
complex, ever-changing issues: food security, ecological intensification,
emerging diseases, the future of agriculture in developing countries, etc.
Scientific strategy

CIRAD's operations centre on six priority lines of research.

It primarily works through joint research platforms.
Partnerships

CIRAD has a global network of partners and of twelve regional offices, from
which it conducts joint operations with more than 100 countries. Its
bilateral partnerships fit in with multilateral operations of regional
interest.

In metropolitan France, it provides the national and global scientific
communities with extensive research and training facilities, primarily in
Montpellier.

CIRAD is a founding member of * Agreenium <http://www.agreenium.org/>* ,
the national consortium for agriculture, food, animal health and the
environment, and a member of the * Alliance nationale de coordination de la
recherche pour l’environnement. <http://www.allenvi.fr/>*

CIRAD in figures

- A staff of 1650, including 800 researchers.
- Joint operations with more than 100 countries.
- Three scientific departments: Biological Systems (BIOS), Performance
of Tropical Production and Processing Systems (PERSYST), and Environment
and Societies (ES).
- 34 research units.
- Twelve regional offices in metropolitan France, the French overseas
regions and other countries.
- Around thirty collective research tools accessible to partners from
developing countries.
- About 5 million euros spent on PhD courses; 800 researchers and
technicians from all over the world received and trained each year.
- A budget of 197 million euros in 2014.



  • [permaculture] CIRAD - Agricultural Research for Development, Lawrence London, 05/27/2015

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