Working together for tomorrow’s agriculture

http://www.cirad.fr/en

Meeting the challenges of global issues

CIRAD generates knowledge and helps building capacity, in support of agricultural and rural development

With specific experience of tropical commodity chains

From 7 billion people needing to be fed today…

… to 9 billion by 2050

Population growth concentrated in the South, in large cities

Research on the appropriate scale

Biological systems

Understanding biological systems, from molecule to ecosystem

Tropical production and processing systems

Analysing farming practices and farming system performance, from plot to farm level

Environments and societies

Supporting players in rural areas, from a local to a global scale

Three research fields

More than 300 PhD students supervised each year, 60 % of them from the South

International Masters courses run with grandes écoles and universities

Training the talents of the future:the need to link researchand higher education

800 researchers and technicians received and trained each year