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

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

La prévention des épidémies passe par une détection précoce suivie de réponses rapides et efficaces. Cela implique une ...

As part of its long-standing partnership with Zimbabwe, France officially handed over a state-of-the-art Biotechnology Centre to the University of Zimbabwe (UZ) on 21 May 2025. The handover ceremony ...

In the Indian Ocean, agricultural development is often hampered by limited access to healthy seeds or seedlings suited to local agroclimatic conditions. Over four years, the FOOD-SEC Semence project ...

Following an initial compilation of stories of change published in late 2024, CIRAD, along with a consortium of Agrinatura member organizations*, has published a second book on the innovations rolled ...

Legumes have nothing left to prove in terms of their agronomic benefits. In 2022, a meta-analysis of more than 12 000 observations in 153 countries showed a 20% average increase in yields in cropping ...

Du 10 au 16 février 2025, Éric Jeuffrault, le directeur régional du Cirad à La Réunion, Mayotte et dans l’océan Indien, était en visite à Madagascar dans le cadre des préparatifs de la conférence ...

“Improving rural livelihoods and resilience to climate change in Africa: innovative agroforestry integrating people, trees, crops and livestock” is a new venture that has just been launched in Dakar, ...

Africa cannot be seen merely in terms of poverty and conflict, nor as the new Eldorado promised by the development of an urban middle class. For the UNESCO Chair in World Food Systems, the many ...

According to some reports, coffee beans are the second most widely sold commodity worldwide. However, coffee growers are some of the world's poorest farmers, and climate change is making matters worse ...

Agricultural activity in southern North Africa is growing rapidly. Small-scale family farming now co-exists with farms covering several hundred hectares. However, economic development risks being ...