CIRAD is a French research centre working with developing countries to tackle international agricultural and development issues.
Status
CIRAD (Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement) 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 and European 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
Members:
Resources
Displaying 71 - 72 of 72Soil physical characteristics under different land use systems and duration on the Colombian savannas = Caractéristiques physiques de sols des savanes de Colombie en fonction de leur mode de mise en valeur et de leur ancienneté
Collaborative land use planning and sustainable institutional arrangement for strengthening land tenure, fores
General
Avoid deforestation and environmental degradation by supporting the development of sustainable institutional arrangements promoting land policies and instruments involving local communities. Specific objective: Collaborative and equitable LUP and NRM are established, leading to the design and testing of new institutional arrangements, environmental policies and instruments based on more secure land tenure and community rights.