CIRAD is a French agricultural research centre working for development in tropical and subtropical countries and the French overseas regions Most of CIRAD

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CIRAD is a French agricultural research centre
working for development in tropical and
subtropical countries and the French overseas
regionsMost of CIRADs research is conducted
in partnership
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Developing countriesat the heart of global
issues

• Alleviating poverty
• 1.2 billion inhabitants live on less than 1 US
  dollar a day
• Intensifying agriculture and biomass energy
• there will be another 2.5 billion people in
  developing countries
• in 2050, 60 of them in towns
• Reducing the impact of human activity on climate
  change and the environment
• some 3 billion people are at risk
• of water shortages by 2025

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The issues in the French overseas regions

• Local development
• agricultural commodity chain competitiveness
• environmental issues
• regional development
• Transposable research
• research with a regional, European and
  international scope
• platforms in the tropics

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The scientific challenges

• Sustainable agriculture based on integrated
  biology
• Optimizing rational ecosystem management
• Modelling complexity

• Improving methods and diagnoses
• Supporting decision-making and governance

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One objective sustainable development

• in tropical and subtropical zones
• farming and agrifood systems, commodity chains
• natural and manmade ecosystems
• players and territories
• with an integrated, multidisciplinary approach
• production, storage and processing
• biodiversity, natural resource and environmental
  management
• quality and risk management
• organizations and societies

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One main operating principle partnerships

• Projects built and implemented jointly with
  research and development players
• research centres and universities
• professional organizations and the private sector
• the authorities and funding agencies
• local authorities
• NGOs
• In developing countries
• With the support of laboratories in both
  industrialized and developing countries

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One condition innovative, applied research

• Overseas, cooperative research units with
  scientific and technical platforms
• Innovation, with the establishment of economic
  partnerships

• Research units with a scientific strategy and a
  four-yearly evaluation mechanism
• In France
• . a policy of sites (Montpellier, Paris,
  French overseas regions) and joint research
  units
• . scientific partnerships with INRA, IRD,
  CEMAGREF, the universities, etc

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Local operations for a global network
15 regional management structures2 in
metropolitan France, 5 in the French overseas
regions
1 in Latin America, 5 in Africa, 2 in Asia
Presence and regular missions
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An operating budget of 170 million euros
French public funds 70

• Contracts and projects
• 30

Resources
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A staff of 1 850, including 750 researchers
Metropolitan France 430 researchers
Outside metropolitan France320
researchers French overseas regions
110 Overseas 210, with 30 in the international
system
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A structure on three levels
General Management internal unity, long-term
strategy, human resources, budget
Departments objectives (multi-annual strategy
plans) and resources (resource management and
administration staff assignment)
Research units targeted scientific output
scientific strategy programming,
implementation, coordination, evaluation
Various types of partnerships joint units,
poles, projects, etc
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Seven scientific and technical departments

• Three commodity chain-oriented departments
  Annual crops, tree crops, fruit and
  horticultural crops rice, cotton, coffee,
  banana, vegetables, periurban agriculture, etc

• Four theme-oriented departments
• . Forestry natural forests, plantations, wood
  products
• . Territories, environment and people family
  agriculture, economics, resources
• . Animal production and veterinary medicine
  production, health, natural ecosystems
• . Advanced methods for innovation in
  scienceapplied biology, complex systems

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60 research and service units

• 36 internal units, 10 of them interdepartmental
• 18 joint research units

• 3 cooperative research units . 2 in Madagascar
  (forestry, rice)
• . 1 in Senegal (pastoralism)
• 3 service units

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Training and teaching

• Training through research 240 doctoral
  students, 60 from developing countries
• Diploma-oriented training580 students, 40 from
  developing countries

• Professional training150 modules, 50 overseas
• Distance learning (e-learning)

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