The Ghanaian economy is heavily reliant on agriculture. This can also be said of many African countries, which are ...
Identifying a plant disease directly in the field using a smartphone: this is the challenge taken on by the teams from the Pl ...
The French agricultural research and international cooperation organization working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions.
L’économie ghanéenne repose en grande partie sur le secteur agricole. Cette situation est commune à de nombreux pays ...
Face à l’urgence écologique, une Chaire propose des outils innovants pour intégrer la nature au cœur des décisions ...
Guatemala’s community forest concessions are a success in every respect. The forest is being conserved more effectively by indigenous communities practising sustainable logging than in neighbouring ...
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 ...
Glyphosate is the world's most widely used herbicide. It is also a word that instantly triggers impassioned debate. A study by CIRAD scientists in Martinique has shown that using glyphosate reduces ...
New studies have revealed the shocking extent of forest degradation in Suriname’s Amazon due to illegal logging and mining. Some 32% of Saamaka territory has already been allocated by the government ...
An international team of scientists recently used army ants as a sampling “tool” for plant and animal viruses circulating in a deep forest in Gabon. This innovative approach to viral ecology opens up ...
One way of combating deforestation effectively is to define priority zones seen as being at particular risk. The difficult part is identifying those zones. Tropical countries have recently been given ...
Responses to climate change, biodiversity loss and natural resource depletion must necessarily be global. In the field of agriculture perhaps more than anywhere else, shared learning about resilience ...