CIRAD

CIRAD, the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development, is an organization working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions.

CIRAD is a public establishment (EPIC) under the joint authority of the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation and the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs.

Its activities concern the life sciences, social sciences and engineering sciences, applied to agriculture, the environment and territorial management.

Its work centres on several main topics: food security, climate change, natural resource management, reduction of inequalities and poverty alleviation.