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2017
                                                  HIGHLIGHTS

                                                  ACTIVITIES REPORT

    2017
                                      SPOTLIGHT

HIGHLIGHTS                            LIVING
                                      TERRITORIES

ACTIVITIES REPORT

                    CONTENTS
                    PRESENTATION OF CIRAD
                    PAGE 1
                    INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL EDDI
                    PAGE 3
                    PREPARING FOR TOMORROW
                    PAGE 5
                    INTEGRATING KNOWLEDGE
                    PAGE 13
                    SHARING KNOWLEDGE
                    PAGE 19
                    SUPPORTING SOUTHERN COUNTRIES
                    PAGE 25
                    WORKING TOGETHER FOR A BETTER FUTURE
                    PAGE 31
                    SPOTLIGHT 2017. LIVING TERRITORIES
                    PAGE 37
                    INDICATORS 2017
                    PAGE 41
                    ORGANIZATION (01/09/2018)
                    PAGE 48
                    ADDRESSES (01/09/2018)
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PRESENTATION OF CIRAD

CIRAD is the French agricultural research and international cooperation organization
  working for the sustainable development of tropical and Mediterranean regions

   CIRAD’s recognized expertise                       Its scientific operations respond                        CIRAD is a targeted research
 in agricultural issues in the South                  to the needs of local populations                     organization that sees partnership
   makes it a European reference                          and the main issues facing                            as one of the cornerstones
    in global scientific networks.                          agriculture worldwide.                               of its scientific strategy.

                                           In Paris, our head office.            In the French overseas regions,
          In Montpellier, a research, reception and training centre,             laboratories, collections, technical platforms and
                     at the heart of an international scientific hub.            experimental facilities that are unrivalled worldwide.

                                             Ile-de-France

                                                       Occitanie-Montpellier
                                                                          Mediterranean
                          French West Indies,                             and Middle East
                          French Guiana and                                                                                   Continental
                             Caribbean                                                                                        Southeast Asia
                                      West Africa -
                                          Dry Zone

  Latin
America
                                         West Africa - Forest
                                         and Humid Savanna                                    East Africa
                                                                                                                Southeast Asian
                                                                Central                                         Island countries
                                                                 Africa

                                       Brazil and                                                   Southern Africa
                                       Southern Cone                                                and Madagascar
                                       countries

                                                                                                     Réunion-Mayotte
                                                                                                     and Indian Ocean
                                           Regional offices

                                                 Regional offices and countries covered

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CIRAD has revised
                                                    its strategic vision to boost
                                                    its development impact

                                                    Interview with Michel Eddi,
                                                    President Managing Director,
                                                    on the new strategic vision for 2018-2028
Th. Erwin / CIRAD

                                                    phenomena, we cannot rule out even       by the entire global community
           CIRAD had already embarked               the most catastrophic scenarios          of the major agreements on climate
           on operational application of            for the future of the planet.            and the sustainable development
           the 2012-2022 strategic vision,          The idea of a binary world –             goals.
           but General Management decided           a developed North, protected by
           to revise the contents of that vision.   its wealth, and a developing South,
           Why?                                     highly dependent on external aid –
                                                    is now totally outdated. The question    Within the new vision, what are
           The current global context can be
                                                    of sustainable development is a global   the main consequences for CIRAD’s
           summed up in two words: urgency          one, and the challenges faced bear       activities as a result of this analysis?
           and necessity. Five years after          witness to the interdependence of
           finalizing its initial vision, CIRAD     our societies: the future for all        The main priority for CIRAD is
           therefore decided to relaunch            depends on the efforts made by           to maximize its development impact
           its strategic debate on development      each and every citizen, in line with     by continuing to change. This is
           issues. While the challenges remain      their means and responsibilities,         the ultimate, central aim of its
           the same, they are now urgent and        in a world in which a substantial part   mandate, and science and partnership
           in some cases more substantial,          of the human race is living in great     are the main means of achieving it.
           due to the speed of certain processes.   poverty. This is why it is now vitally   This means rethinking how we plan
           I am talking about climate change,       important that we tackle those           and implement our operations
           the demographic transition that is       challenges together, in a coordinated    by introducing the question of impact
           so long coming in Africa, and            fashion, notably thanks to the work      ex ante, in other words when
           the resulting issues, such as security   being done by scientists in North        designing our research projects.
           and migration, the most pressing         and South. In political terms,           This is crucial if we are to fulfil
           for France and Europe, and increased     this global dynamic has facilitated      our commitments and strengthen
           degradation of biodiversity and          a major step towards this collective     our partnerships within such a short
           habitats. In view of these alarming      awareness, with the signing in 2015      time frame.

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                             The idea of a binary world
                                –a developed North,
                              protected by its wealth,
                              and a developing South,
                         highly dependent on external aid–

                                                                                         ”
                              is now totally outdated.

It is equally important to set            efforts to build the skills and capacity   to the Board of Trustees for approval
objectives and targets at country level   that will enable men and women to          in December 2018.
and to work with stakeholders to build    act and do. More than ever, we must
                                                                                     Based on the vision and the resulting
the sustainable development               invest in training if we are to
                                                                                     SPSOs, two other exercises will then
pathways that will serve to achieve       implement the agro-ecological
                                                                                     be conducted. The first consists
them. To this end, the vision proposes    transitions required the world over,
                                                                                     in defining the operational priorities
integrating the knowledge and             and in developing rural employment.
                                                                                     that will structure the future
innovations generated with our                                                       contractual objectives to be
partners into a political action                                                     negotiated with the State. The second
approach to be built with stakeholders                                               will set out, by means of “multiannual
on a country or regional level and        The vision was adopted                     letters of objectives” (MLOs),
working with decision-makers to build     in December 2017. What are                 the contribution required of each
programming and assessment                the results, six months on?                research unit towards overall
frameworks for their implementation.                                                 implementation of CIRAD’s strategy
We must ensure greater development        The strategic vision fits into a debate
                                                                                     objectives.
impact by taking account of the main      and programming process in four
demographic, environmental, climate       stages. It marks the starting point.       These various stages will enable
and food transitions. CIRAD has set       The next step is to set the vision out     CIRAD to put its ideas into action
itself the challenge of promoting         in a “scientific and partnership           and boost the impact of research
the frameworks and tools required         strategy objectives” (SPSOs)               on development.
to engineer transitions that will         document, in other words to design
benefit countries in the global South,    concrete, planned operations for
by means of science and partnerships.     the coming five years. We have been
                                          working on this since January of
The third main element is the need,
                                          this year. The SPSOs will be submitted
over and above science, technology
and innovation, for unprecedented

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                  FOR TOMORROW
                                       to build long-term,
                                         comprehensive
                                            roadmaps
                                           for societal
                                        transformations
                                         in response to
                                         the challenges
                                             posed by
                                          development
                                      in the global South

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               In an internal memo, CIRAD
              General Management has set
                                                              CAREERS IN LINE
                out the principles and rules                  WITH CIRAD’S PRIORITIES
           governing geographical mobility
                       for the organization                   Geographical mobility, at the heart                 ment fits in with our geographical partner-
                                                              of CIRAD’s scientific strategy                      ship strategy. Any plans for mobility must be
              as a whole, within a common                                                                         drawn up jointly with our partners.
                                                              When they join CIRAD, our researchers make
                         action framework.                    a contractual commitment to geographical
                                                              mobility. Mobility is key to the success of the
                                                                                                                  Practicalities tailored to experience
                                                              organization’s scientific operations. It is the
                                                              expression of a collective response to scien-       The profile and personal circumstances of
                                                              tific questions and to expectations expressed       each researcher are taken into account.
                                                              by our partners. Each planned assignment is         Mobility is a priority for “junior researchers”,
                                                              subject to the approval of General Manage-          and should serve to build their scientific
                                                              ment.                                               reputation. For “senior” researchers, finan-
                                                                                                                  cial aspects are important, albeit tempered
                                                                                                                  by other criteria, such as the type of work
                                                              Rules, principles and a schedule                    being done by the researcher and the situ-
                                                              The memo sets out the time scale, the three         ation of the country or partner concerned.
                                                              aspects – scientific, partnership-related and       The experience and skills acquired through
                                                              financial – to be clarified, and the roles of       geographical mobility are taken into account
                                                              each party. Our research teams, units and           when deciding on promotions.
CIRAD

                                                              departments suggest assignments, and the
                        Philippe Petithuguenin,               Management Committee makes the final
              Deputy Director General in charge of Research   decision. The Regional Directors concerned
                              and Strategy                    are also involved in checking that the assign-      philippe.petithuguenin@cirad.fr

         A FUTURE ETHICS AND SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY OFFICE
         Three questions for Philippe Feldmann, specialist in scientific integrity issues at CIRAD

                          Ethics are a major priority for     Why draft a code of ethics?                         partnerships and foster sustainable devel-
                       CIRAD. After signing the national                                                          opment, notably by building research, train-
                                                              Philippe Feldmann: Ethics are a major prior-
                                                                                                                  ing, appraisal and innovation capacity
                        research ethics charter in 2015,      ity for CIRAD. After signing the national
                                                              research ethics charter in 2015, CIRAD is now       amongst its partners in the global South.
                        CIRAD is now rolling out its own
                                                              rolling out its own code of ethics. In view of
                                           specific code
                                                              its responsibility to society as a whole,
                                               of ethics.                                                         So what now?
                                                              research has to be exemplary in terms of its
                                                              practices and principles.                           P.F.: CIRAD is getting ready to launch an
                                                                                                                  Ethics and Scientific Integrity Office, to be
                                                                                                                  backed up by an Ethics Monitoring Commit-
                                                              What is in the code?                                tee. The office will be the point of entry for
                                                              P.F.: It sets out the ethical principles and
                                                                                                                  CIRAD employees or people from outside
                                                              rules applicable to its staff members,
                                                                                                                  CIRAD who may have questions relating to
        © M. Gunther

                                                              whether administrative or scientific. In par-
                                                                                                                  the code and more broadly to ethics and
                                                              ticular, it takes account of the specificities of
                                                                                                                  scientific integrity as a whole.
                                                              scientific partnerships for development, and
                                                              collaboration with the private sector.

                                                              In line with its strategic vision and its values,
                                                              CIRAD works to build balanced, equitable            philippe.feldmann@cirad.fr

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Montpellier research centre

A FUTURISTIC GLASSHOUSE TAKES SHAPE

                                                                                                                                                                          © D. Delebecque, CIRAD
T
            he keys to the high-performance            effect of nitrogen fertilization on plant nitro-           THE CIRAD WEBSITE IS NOW
            glasshouse on the Lavalette site           gen use efficiency and susceptibility to dis-              MOBILE-FRIENDLY
            have been handed over*, after a            ease.                                                      The CIRAD website is now available in a version
            year of building works. The
                                                                                                                  optimized for smartphone screens. This mobile
            glasshouse has six 40-m2 glass             These initial trials will also serve to assess
                                                                                                                  version is easier to navigate and more comfortable
“chapels”, a 12-m2 culture chamber, an                 the overall performance of the glasshouse,                 to read, to facilitate access to information. This is
office, sanitation facilities, and work and            before it is opened to CIRAD as a whole and                an advantage for anyone wanting to know more
storage areas.                                         to outside partners in 2019. The second                    about CIRAD, particularly in Africa (560 million
                                                       phase** (equipment purchasing) is sched-                   2G users in 2015), where for want of other
Climate conditions are very closely con-
                                                                                                                  infrastructures, information is primarily accessed
trolled: temperature and humidity, and                 uled for 2018.
                                                                                                                  via smartphones.
adjustable CO2 concentration (up to 1000
ppm), lighting and photoperiod. This enables                                                                      www@cirad.fr
detailed analyses of the effects of climate            tanguy.lafarge@cirad.fr
change on plant development and growth.                                                                           https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
                                                                                                                  articles/2017/ca-vient-de-sortir/the-cirad-website-
Two trials have already begun on rice: one             * Phase 1 was funded by the Regional Council,              is-now-mobile-friendly
to study the impact on photosynthesis of               under the State-Region Planning Contract.

doubling ambient CO2 levels, the other the             ** Phase 2 is funded by the State.

                   Publication. What impact do thematic publications have?

                   The Scientific and Technical        pinpoint ways of boosting the dissemination and
                   Information Service (DIST) has      visibility of these publications.
conducted an impact study of the five books on
                                                       marie-claude.deboin@cirad.fr
CIRAD’s annual topics* published by Quae and
                                                       http://agritrop.cirad.fr/585199/
Springer up to 2017. An analysis of various criteria
(sales, hits and downloads, referencing, indexing,
                                                       *2013: biodiversity; 2014: family farming; 2015: climate
citation, social media activity, bibliographical       change; 2016: sustainable development and tropical
reference sharing websites, media) served to           supply chains; 2017: living territories.

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Incentive scheme                                                                                        Technology transfer and development
                                                                                                        Mash: the success story
CIRAD SUPPORTS CREATIVE,                                                                                of a sugarcane field mapping tool
                                                                                                        A contract was recently signed between CIRAD
INNOVATIVE RESEARCHERS                                                                                  and Mitr Phol, a Thai firm that is number 5 in the
                                                                                                        global sugar market, relating to the Mash tool.

T
                                                                                                        Development of the tool was supported by the
          o foster the development of ideas          CRESI is currently supporting an exploration
                                                                                                        new products and services incubator (INPP), and it
          that are either novel or ahead of          of the diversity and distribution of the archaea   serves to monitor sugarcane harvesting in virtually
          their time, CIRAD has launched an          associated with agro-ecosystems using inno-        real time, using radar and optical satellite images.
          incentive scheme for scientific cre-       vative metagenomics and culturomics tech-
          ativity and innovation (AI CRESI).
                                                     niques; a collaborative platform for analysing
The aim is to build an ideas incubator, by           and validating information on genetic              e-WATCH: a web tool
facilitating the emergence of original scientific    resources worldwide; a study of the synergies      for managing monitoring data
                                                     between firms and territorial development          e-WATCH serves to manage geo-referenced field
initiatives, for instance with a view to moving
                                                                                                        data. This software suite, developed by CIRAD
into a new scientific niche. Funding is available    that could be used to reach the sustainable
                                                                                                        and supported by the new products and services
for operations to test the relevance of and          development goals (SDGs); and the develop-         incubator (INPP), has been used to build several
nurture ideas, and if possible to turn them into     ment of an innovative method for identifying       platforms: vulnerable zones in West Africa (IUCN),
                                                     and monitoring cocoa pollinator populations        Agrisource with INRA (EIT-Climate KIC), and the
research projects. The selection criteria centre
                                                                                                        cotton supply chain in Mali (AFD).
                                                     on a plot scale.
on the originality of the proposal and the
possibility of converting intuitions and inten-
tions into concrete scientific operations.           claudie.dreuil@cirad.fr                            lisa.blangy@cirad.fr

                                                     Montpellier UniverSity of Excellence (MUSE)
                                                     SEVEN WINNING PROJECTS
                                                     LED BY CIRAD

U
            nder the Support for Research call       submitted, this category is by far the largest,    Projects led by CIRAD
            for projects launched last Sep-          which proves the vitality of the sector in
                                                                                                        CarniVespa: Recherche de signaux visuels et olfac-
            tember by Montpellier UniverSity         Montpellier.                                       tifs attirants spécifiquement le frelon asiatique
            of Excellence (MUSE), four types
                                                     Montpellier UniverSity of Excellence (MUSE)        chez une plante carnivore pour le développement
            of projects (research, recruitment                                                          d’un piège biomimétique
                                                     was founded to make Montpellier the Euro-
of post-doctoral researchers, shared struc-
                                                     pean capital of health and the agro-environ-       TEMPO: TElédétection et Modélisation sPatiale de
tural facilities, and heavy equipment for
                                                     ment. The project, submitted by the                la mObilité animale
technological platforms), organized around
                                                     University of Montpellier in response to the       MozARH: Mozambican Arenaviruses at the Rodent
five subject areas (Agronomy-Environ-
                                                     I-Site project launched by the French gov-         Human interface
ment-Biodiversity, Biology-Health, Chemis-
                                                     ernment, took shape in 2017. MUSE associ-          AprèsInfrastructure: Vulnérabilité des populations
try,Mathematics-ComputerScience-Phys-
                                                     ates all the research establishments, the          riveraines après installation d’interfaces hydroag-
ics-Structure, and Social Sciences) will share       university and four grandes écoles in Mont-        ricoles (Senegal)
a grant of € 5.8M.                                   pellier.
                                                                                                        AdaptGrass: Genomic analysis of crop adaptative
Of a total of 264 proposals submitted, 58            Its scientific vision centres on three societal    diversity for two plant models, rice (C3) and sor-
(20%) were selected. CIRAD leads seven in                                                               ghum (C4)
                                                     issues: “Feed - Care - Protect”.
all, and is a partner in five others. In particu-                                                       Tackling CC: Tackling Climate Change: Institutional-
lar, it leads five of the eleven projects selected   vincent.fabre-rousseau@cirad.fr                    izing and Articulating Adapted Tools for Integrated
under the heading Agronomy-Environ-                                                                     Governance of Climate Change Policies
                                                     https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
ment-Biodiversity. With 40% of all projects          articles/2018/institutionnel/cirad-projects-muse   ECOTROP platform

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                                                                                                                                 3
#DigitAg                                                                                                          higher education establishments
                                                                                                                     (University of Montpellier,
                                                                                                                      Montpellier SupAgro and

FOR DIGITAL FARMING                                                                                                        AgroParisTech)                        4
                                                                                                                                                       research organizations

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                                                                                                                                                      (IRSTEA, project leader,
                                                                                                                                                      INRA, INRIA and CIRAD)
                hat are the links between                acquisition and management; information
                artificial intelligence and              systems and data storage and transfers; agri-
                sensors, and food security,              cultural big data mining; and agricultural
                agro-ecology, agricultural                                                                                        8
                                                         production system modelling and simulation.                         firms (SMAG,
                                                                                                                      Fruition Sciences, IDATE,
                advisory services and market                                                                              ITK, Pera-Pellenc,
access? To tackle the global issues at the               CIRAD will be contributing its experience of                Agriscope, Terranis, Vivelys)               2
                                                                                                                                                        transfer-development
heart of the SDGs, #DigitAg, the Institute for           farming systems in the global South. In par-                                                         structures
                                                                                                                                                          (ACTA, SATT AxLR)
the Convergence of Digital Agriculture, asso-            ticular, it will be leading challenge 8, devoted
ciates 17 French players from the research,              to the South, focusing on the key factors for
higher education and private sectors, with a             the success of innovations in terms of smart
                                                         farming, particularly the way in which tools                 Almost  10    million euros
view to analysing and supporting the devel-                                                                           from the Investissements

opment of smart farming in both North and                and services must be co-constructed if they                     d’Avenir Programme
                                                                                                                     (call for projects specific to      57 thesis grants
South.                                                   are to be both useful and used in Africa.                     Instituts Convergences)
                                                                                                                                                        18 years of post-docs
                                                         guy.faure@cirad.fr                                                                             150 Masters grants,
The partners in #DigitAg will be working                                                                                                                      including
along six lines: the impact of information and           pascal.bonnet@cirad.fr                                                                       45 “member firms” Masters
communications technologies on the rural                 https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
world; smart farming innovations; data                   articles/2017/science/digitag-launch

Bonn Challenge. CIRAD IS COMMITTED TO RESTORING FOREST LANDSCAPES
The degradation of tropical forests as a result of
reckless logging concerns more than two billion
hectares of land worldwide. The Bonn Challenge,
launched in 2011 by the German government and
the IUCN, set out to restore 150 million ha of
degraded and deforested land by 2020, and 350
million by 2030.

CIRAD has been chosen as a technical partner, and
is involved in three global initiatives:
– the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initi-
ative (AFR 100), which concerns 100 million hec-
tares;
– Initiative 20x20, which covers 20 million hec-
tares throughout Latin America;
– the GPFLR (Global Partnership on Forest Land-
scape Restoration), which works on a landscape or
territory scale.

plinio.sist@cirad.fr
https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
articles/2017/science/bonn-challenge-restoring-forest-
                                                             Bushfire in a baobab forest in Senegal J. Bouyer © CIRAD
                                                         >

landscapes

CLIMATE CHANGE
The 4P1000 initiative has won the World                  Since its launch in 2015, more than 280 organiza-       COP23: making actions speak louder than
Future Council Future Policy Award. The                  tions have supported the initiative by signing the      words. The 23rd Conference of the Parties to the
initiative, which sees agriculture as a solution to      Paris declaration, which set its objectives. The ini-   UN Convention on Climate Change (COP23), “Fur-
climate change, is a vision for the future, according    tiative fits in with the global climate action agenda   ther, Faster Ambition Together”, organized by Fiji,
to the World Future Council. The Council recently        (GCAA) adopted at COP22.                                was held in Bonn, Germany, from 6 to 17 November
gave the initiative its prestigious Future Policy        emmanuel.torquebiau@cirad.fr                            2017. CIRAD, along with its partners, was involved
Award (Vision category). This year, the award,                                                                   in several meetings, notably relating to the 4P1000
                                                         https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
which is known as the best policy Oscar, highlighted                                                             initiative.
                                                         articles/2017/science/the-4p1000-initiative-receives-
the best global policies to combat desertification       the-world-future-council-future-policy-award            julien.demenois@cirad.fr
and soil degradation.
                                                                                                                 https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
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                                                                                                                                         and Indian Ocean
                                                                                                                Annick Girardin with Éric Jeuffrault © CIRAD

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                                                      French West Indies,
                                                      French Guiana and
                                                         Caribbean

                                                                                                            THE MINISTER
                                                                                                            FOR OVERSEAS
                                                                                                            TERRITORIES MEETS
                                                                                                            AGRICULTURAL
                                                                                                            PROFESSIONALS
                                                                                                            On 9 October 2017, during a trip
                                                                                                                                                               Réunio
                                                                                                            to Réunion, the French Minister
                                                                                                                                                               and Ind
                                                                                                            for Overseas Territories, Annick
                                                                                                            Girardin, took stock of the progress
                                                                                                            made by the technical innovation
                                                                                                            and agricultural transfer networks
     Stéphane Travert tours CIRAD’s installations with Dominique Martinez
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     © D.-L. Aubert, DAAF Guadeloupe                                                                        (RITAs).

                                                                                                            A
                                                                                                                         t a meeting focusing on agricul-
THE FRENCH MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE                                                                                       tural transfers with players from
                                                                                                                         the main production chains in
VISITS CIRAD                                                                                                             Réunion (horticulture, livestock
                                                                                                                         production and sugarcane),
During a trip to the French West Indies, the Minister of Agriculture                                        Annick Girardin learnt about the progress
and Food, Stéphane Travert, visited CIRAD’s Neufchâteau station                                             made by the RITAs (innovation and agricul-
on 24 November 2017.                                                                                        tural transfer networks) centring on

S
                                                                                                            agro-ecology that were set up in the French
            téphane Travert took the opportu-              –	development, with an industrial partner, of   overseas regions by the French government
            nity of a trip to the French West                 sugarcane fibre use to generate energy;       in 2012. CIRAD is one of the founding mem-
            Indies to talk to agricultural supply                                                           bers of the RITAs and one of the leaders,
                                                           –	support of the banana supply chain in
            chain stakeholders about the situa-                                                             along with ACTA, on a national level.
                                                              terms of disease surveillance and preven-
            tion following the damage caused                                                                “Our RITAs are working on collaborative pro-
                                                              tion, and development of new varieties and
by hurricanes Irma and Maria, and the issues                                                                jects based on involving all stakeholders, who
                                                              of agro-ecological methods aimed at cut-
covered by the États généraux de l’alimenta-                                                                each benefit. Farmers are a pivotal concern
                                                              ting chemical input use.                      for research. RITAs combine science and prac-
tion and the Assises des Outre-mer.
                                                           For Dominique Martinez, CIRAD Regional           tice”, says Éric Jeuffrault, CIRAD Regional
The Minister visited CIRAD’s Neufchâteau                                                                    Director for Réunion-Mayotte.
                                                           Director for the West Indies-French Guiana,
station to discover its operations in support              “this ministerial visit recognizes the impor-    Following their talk, the Minister said she had
of farming in Guadeloupe:                                  tance of the research being done by CIRAD        met “a Réunion that dares, with the whole
                                                                                                            range of professionals, scientists and organi-
–	revival of the citrus sector, via the local             and its partners, as a driver of agricultural
                                                                                                            zations. The networks in Réunion are an exam-
     technical innovation and agricultural trans-          innovation in favour of territorial develop-
                                                                                                            ple to all, and prove the merits of working
     fer network (RITA), following the arrival of          ment”.                                           together. Réunion is the most dynamic over-
     citrus greening disease;                              https://antilles-guyane.cirad.fr/                seas region when it comes to agro-ecology.”

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                                                            FOR TOMORROW

                   French West Indies,

                                                                                                                                                R. Carayol © CIRAD
                   French Guiana and
                      Caribbean

THE RÉUNION PLANT PROTECTION PLATFORM
IS EXPANDING

T
        he Plant Protection Platform (3P) in      technology platform recognized by the Infra-
        Saint-Pierre is expanding, with the       structures en biologie santé et agronomie
        help of the Réunion Regional Council      (IBiSA) group.
        and EU funding.
                                                  More than 1900 m2 of laboratories will be
The aim is to ensure better conditions for
                                                  built between now and the end of 2020,
researchers, students and partners from the
                                                  with state-of-the-art chemical ecology and
Indian Ocean working on crop protection and
                                                  molecular biology facilities. “These scientific
natural environments. “3P has been a victim
of its huge success since its inauguration in     disciplines are absolutely vital”, Éric Jeuffrault
2001. It really needs extending”, says Éric       adds, “to make agro-ecology a sustainable
Jeuffrault, CIRAD Regional Director for Réun-     solution for our island farming systems, in a                             Réunion-Mayotte
ion-Mayotte. 3P is the only overseas research     competitive economic context”.                                            and Indian Ocean

THE VATEL BRC GETS A SEAL OF APPROVAL
FOR ITS QUALITY APPROACH
                                                                                                       AGROnews, new format

L
          The Vatel Biological Resource           tection Platform). The unfailing motivation          The new AGROnews,
          Centre (BRC) was granted NF S96-        and efforts put in by the BRC’s technicians,         launched in 2017 to
          900 certification by SGS, the world     quality specialists, collection managers, gen-       supplement CIRAD’s
          leader in certification, in December                                                         on-line information
                                                  eral management and support services are
          2016. That certification guarantees                                                          offering, reflects the
                                                  what have led to the BRC being recognized            commitment of the
the efficiency of the centre’s system for
                                                  for its efficient management, seven years on.        CIRAD Réunion-May-
managing its vanilla, tropical garlic and other
                                                                                                       otte (Indian Ocean
lontan vegetable genetic resource collec-         This certification means greater visibility and
                                                                                                       zone) Regional Office
tions, which are now more secure and more         regional legitimacy for the Vatel BRC. The           and its research teams
traceable.                                        centre is a member of InterTrop, a network           to publicizing their
The BRC was given its first seal of approval      of all the tropical plant BRCs owned by              activities. The new
                                                  CIRAD, INRA and the IRD, which supports              format will evolve in
by IBiSA in 2009. Its collection managers
                                                                                                       time to keep pace with
subsequently launched a quality approach,         BRCs in obtaining certification.
                                                                                                       readers’ expectations.
which was boosted in 2014 by the arrival of
a quality specialist, who is herself backed up
by the Quality Manager at the 3P (Plant Pro-      https://reunion-mayotte.cirad.fr/

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Th. Leroy © CIRAD
Alex_Traksel © Adobe Stock
P. Dugué © CIRAD

                             12   CIRAD
                                   CIRAD - - 2017
                                              2017HIGHLIGHTS
                                                  HIGHLIGHTS - ACTIVITIES REPORT
INTEGRATING
                        KNOWLEDGE
                                          to share and
                                          use it better,
                                           and suggest
                                         possible courses
                                            of action

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INTEGRATING
                                                                     KNOWLEDGE

     persp ctive
                           e                              The CIRAD
                                                          policy brief

Animal and human health: tackling uncertainty through participatory
modelling and simulation
Zoonoses, drug resistance and environmental pollution are now causing serious health
problems worldwide. New uncertainties are emerging, and nonconventional actors are
entering the scene alongside the decision-makers traditionally responsible for public health.
In response to these constraints, researchers are using a participatory approach that is
described in this issue of Perspective.
aurelie.binot@cirad.fr • raphael.duboz@cirad.fr
https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/articles/2017/ca-vient-de-sortir/perspective-no.-41-animal-and-
human-health-tackling-uncertainty

Antimicrobials in agriculture: reducing their use while limiting health
                                                                                                                  Communautés locales
and socioeconomic risks in the countries of the South
                                                                                                                  et utilisation de la faune sauvage
The widespread use of antimicrobials in agriculture is increasing in southern countries,                          en Afrique centrale
driven by growing demand for animal products. This is creating a serious problem of anti-
                                                                                                                  This synthesis, published by the FAO, CIRAD and
microbial resistance. This Perspective deciphers the complexity and impact of the problem.
                                                                                                                  CIFOR, relates and promotes the lessons learnt
It suggests possible courses of action aimed at rationalizing microbial use, while respecting
                                                                                                                  from the Wildmeat project on participatory man-
farmers in the most vulnerable regions.                                                                           agement of the local fauna and hunting, which ran
francois.roger@cirad.fr                                                                                           from 2012 to 2017 in Gabon, Central African
                                                                                                                  Republic, Republic of Congo and Democratic
https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/articles/2017/ca-vient-de-sortir/perspective-no.-39-antimicrobials-
in-agriculture-f.-roger-c.-ducrot
                                                                                                                  Republic of Congo.
                                                                                                                  Communautés locales et utilisation durable de la faune en
                                                                                                                  Afrique centrale. N. van Vliet, J. -C. Nguinguiri, D. Corne-
                                                                                                                  lis, S. Le Bel (eds). FAO/CIFOR/CIRAD. 2017 (266 p.).
                       Fruit Logistica 2017 fair                                                                  http://dx.doi.org/10.17528/cifor/006488

                       CIRAD, THE EXPERT
                       IN TROPICAL FRUIT                                                                          Technical guides
                       AND VEGETABLES                                                                             Diagnostic approfondi pour la mise en œuvre de la gestion
                                                                                                                  communautaire de la chasse villageoise. CIFOR, CIRAD,
                                                                                                                  IUCN, FAO, (80 p.). http://dx.doi.org/10.17528/cifor/
CIRAD was at the Fruit Logistica fair in Berlin from 8 to 10
                                                                                                                  005706
February 2017. It presented a selection of its expertise and
                                                                                                  D. Guard,       Développement participatif d’un plan de gestion durable
innovations, from plant breeding to postharvest procedures,                                       CIRAD           de la chasse villageoise. CIFOR, CIRAD, FAO, (48 p.). http://
through life cycle assessment. The flagship offering,
                                                                                                                  dx.doi.org/10.17528/cifor/006489
Fruitrop, was presented by the CIRAD Market News
Service, a group of economic experts. Fruit Logis-
tica is a global rendezvous for the fruit and vege-
table trade, and each year, it brings together
                                                                                                                  Zimbabwe
almost 3000 exhibitors from some 80 coun-                                                                         The RP-PCP platform celebrates
tries and more than 70 000 visitors from                                                                          its tenth anniversary
130 countries.
                                                                                                                  To mark its tenth anniversary, the RP-PCP
lisa.blangy@cirad.fr                                                                                              (Production and Conservation in Partnership in
https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/articles/2017/                                                        Southern Africa) platform worked with its partners
events/cirad-at-the-fruit-logistica-2017-fair                                                                     to organize a week-long meeting in southeastern
                                                                                                                  Zimbabwe on the matter of Transfrontier
                                                                                                                  Conservation Areas (TFCAs). A consultation
Expertise                                                                                                         workshop on a role-play game, Kulayijana
                                                                                                                  (“learning from each other”) was held in situ with
GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS: WHAT ARE THE STATE’S ROLES?
                                                                                                                  rural communities (22-23 May). This was followed
The prestigious journal World Development devoted a special section to geographical indications (GIs)             by an international scientific symposium (24-26
in late 2017. It was coordinated by two researchers from UMR Innovation, and presented the results                May) to allow the platform’s students to meet
of more than 15 years’ work by CIRAD and its partners in the global South, in a context of intense                international experts and present their research
global debate about the institutionalization of these quality stamps.                                             to the community representatives who led the
estelle.bienabe@cirad.fr • delphine.marie-vivien@cirad.fr                                                         debates and subsequent discussions.

https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/press-releases/2017/gis-what-are-the-state-s-roles                    alexandre.caron@cirad.fr
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X17301584                                               https://www.rp-pcp.org/

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INTEGRATING
                                                        KNOWLEDGE

                                                                                                                                                   © P. Poilecot, CIRAD
 CENTRAL AFRICA

INTEGRATING WILDLIFE
INTO FOOD SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

H
           unting has traditionally been a       The results of the “Wildmeat” project            A paradigm shift
           vital source of food and income
                                                 The aim was to switch from conserva-             As a synthesis published at the end of the
           for many rural families in central
                                                 tion-centred, repressive management of           project highlights, reconciling food security
           Africa, where wildmeat con-
                                                 hunting by villagers to sustainable use by       and wildlife conservation in central Africa
           sumption totals between 5 and
                                                 means of an adaptive, participatory              means promoting the emergence of local
7 million tonnes a year. However, growing
                                                 approach. To this end, local communities         (territory-based) government of meat-
population pressure and demand for meat
                                                 were involved in pilot projects and encour-      based food systems, covering both domes-
from secondary towns and cities have
                                                 aged to organize themselves so as to             ticated and wild meat sources. This will be a
resulted in increased, unsustainable hunting
                                                 manage their hunting territories collectively.   gradual revolution, involving revision of laws
of many wild animals. In response to this
                                                                                                  and changes in hunting and wildmeat trad-
threat to conservation and biodiversity, a       The researchers involved developed models
                                                                                                  ing practices and in the local diet.
project, “Sustainable wildlife management        and tools for community management of
and wildmeat in central Africa”, served to lay   hunting by villagers. They also used innova-
the foundations of integrated management         tive tools such as digital apps and cameras      Ongoing collaboration: a consortium
of hunting by villagers and of meat con-         to monitor hunting activities. Two technical     for the coming seven years
sumption.                                        handbooks and a battery of diagnostic tools      New projects are planned to carry on from
                                                 were also produced. Lastly, a sub-regional       this initial work, including the Sustainable
The project, which was led by the FAO and
                                                 strategy for the sustainable use of wildlife     Wildlife Management programme, which
involved CIRAD, ran for five years and was
                                                 by local communities was drafted. It is led      began in late 2017. With 45 million euros of
recently completed. The knowledge gener-
                                                 by the Commission of Central African Forests     funding from the European Commission, the
ated by the network of partners built around
                                                 (COMIFAC) and endorsed by the govern-            exceptionally long project (seven years) will
the project is a valuable asset for continuing
                                                 ments of the countries concerned (Gabon,         be conducted in the ACP (Africa, Caribbean,
support of the emergence of local, partici-
                                                 Congo, and DRC).                                 Pacific) countries by a consortium compris-
patory management of wildlife and hunting
in central Africa.                                                                                ing the FAO, CIRAD, CIFOR and the NGO WCS
                                                                                                  (Wildlife Conservation Society).

                                                                                                  daniel.cornelis@cirad.fr
                                                                                                  sebastien.le_bel@cirad.fr

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Afrique
                                                                              INTEGRATING                                                                     de l’Ouest
                                                                              KNOWLEDGE                                                                          côtière
                                                                                                                       Antilles, Guyane
                                                                                                                       et zone Caraïbe

 French Académie d’agriculture:                                  Montpellier
 a silver medal for Antoine Ducastel                             SOCIOBIOCERRADO PROJECT CLOSING SEMINAR

                                                                  T
                                                                              The closing seminar of the Sociobiocerrado project on the issues and challenges of               Afriq
                                                                              promoting the Cerrado biome by means of sustainable food systems was held from                     co
                                                                              12 to 14 December at UMR MOISA in Montpellier, and was attended by Brazilian
                                                                              experts, notably from the University of Brasilia (UnB) and the Federal University
                                                                              of Maranhão (UFMA)
                                                                 stephane.gueneau@cirad.fr • brasil-conesul@cirad.fr
                                                                                                                                                        Brésil
                                                                 https://bresil.cirad.fr/

                                                                                       persp ctive
                                                                                                        e
                                                                                                                       The CIRAD policy brief
DR

 Antoine Ducastel, a socioeconomist with UMR                     Managing degraded forests,
 ART-DEV, was awarded the Académie d’agricul-
                                                                 a new priority in the Brazilian Amazon
 ture silver medal for his thesis on cultivating
 capital: an analysis of the financialization of agri-           The drastic steps taken in Brazil to cut the annual    lilian.blanc@cirad.fr
 culture in South Africa by the agro-financial sub-              deforestation rate have not had any effect on          marie-gabrielle.piketty@cirad.fr
 sidiaries of private equity firms. This work was                forest degradation. Degraded forests now domi-         marc.piraux@cirad.fr
 conducted with the University of Pretoria.                      nate the landscape along pioneer fronts in the
                                                                                                                        https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
 antoine.ducastel@cirad.fr                                       Amazon. This issue highlights four research pri-
                                                                                                                        articles/2017/ca-vient-de-sortir/perspective-no.-40-
                                                                 orities for reducing degradation and optimizing        managing-degraded-forests
                                                                 these forests.

     Eighteen institutions
     have signed up to the Tropical                              Ivory Coast
     managed Forests Observatory                                 CIRAD AT THE ABIDJAN AGRICULTURAL SHOW

                                                                 T
     The Tropical managed Forests Observatory was
     recently formalized by a collaboration agreement                    he Salon international de l’ag-                tive was presented, and an exchange forum
     signed by 18 institutions, including CIRAD. The                     riculture et des ressources ani-               on the attractiveness to young Africans of
     confirmation of this unique network will enable it                  males (SARA) was held from 17 to               renewed sub-Saharan African agriculture,
     to continue monitoring the world’s logged tropical                  26 November in Abidjan, Ivory                  which proved very popular.
     forests and drafting recommendations for sustain-                   Coast. At the event, which attracts
     able silviculture. The challenge is an urgent one.          the leading African research institutions,
                                                                 CIRAD presented its research activities
     plinio.sist@cirad.fr
                                                                 on a stand shared with the AFD. CIRAD
     https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/                sealed partnerships with research, develop-
     articles/2017/institutionnel/eighteen-institutions-
     have-signed-up-to-the-tropical-managed-forests-
                                                                 ment and higher education establishments
     observatory-tmfo                                            in Ivory Coast and participated in several
                                                                 events, including a workshop on climate
                                                                 change issues, at which the 4P1000 initia-
     RTBfoods: facilitating the adoption
                                                                 patrice.grimaud@cirad.fr
     of new root, tuber and cooking
                                                                 https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/
     banana varieties in Africa                                  all-news-items/articles/2017/
                                                                 events/cirad-a-major-player-
     The RTBfoods project (Breeding RTB Products for
                                                                 at-the-abidjan-agricultural-
     End User Preferences) was launched in November              show
     2017, to run for five years. It is intended to facilitate
     the adoption of new root, tuber and cooking
     banana (RTB) varieties in five African countries. It        https://afrique-ouest.cirad.fr/
     will take a novel approach involving consumers,
     processors and researchers. This 11.5-million-dol-
     lar project sees CIRAD link up with the Bill &
     Melinda Gates Foundation, INRA, CIAT, and the                          Anne Hébert, CIRAD      >
     James Hutton Institute.                                         Communication Coordinator,
                                                                             tours the stand with
     dominique.dufour@cirad.fr                                        Mr Alain Richard Donwahi,
                                                                        Ivorian Minister of Water
     https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/press-                    and Forests © CIRAD
     releases/2018/rtbfoods

     16                                                                                                     CIRAD - 2017 HIGHLIGHTS - ACTIVITIES REPORT
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                                                                                         KNOWLEDGE

          Training seminar
          STRUCTURING SEED AND PLANT PRODUCTION CHAINS

                                                                                                                                                               Madagascar
                                                                                                                                                               A WORKSHOP TO SHARE
                                                                                                                                                               INFORMATION ON THE
                                                                                                                                                               CONCEPT OF LANDSCAPE

                                                                                                                                                               A
                                                                                                                                                                           workshop was held on 6 and
                                                                                                                                                                           7 September for around thirty
                                                                                                                                                                           participants from the SPAD
                                                                                                                                                                           (Highland Production Systems
                                                                                                                                                                           and Sustainability in Madagascar)
                                                               >

                                                                                                                                                               and Forests and Biodiversity platforms in
                                                                                                                                                               partnership (dPs), on the concept of land-
© CIRAD

                                                                                                                                                               scape. The aim, for the dPs, was to be in a
                                                                                                                                                               position to make proposals for the PADAP

      P
                                                                                                                                                               project, launched by the Malagasy govern-
                              romoting IRAD improved varieties        sector; limit free seed and plant distribution                                           ment in the hope of boosting agricultural
                              while structuring seed and plant        by the Ministry so as to foster the emer-                                                productivity while ensuring sustainable nat-
                              production chains was the topic of      gence of a private sector; train and supervise                                           ural resource management within specific
                              a training seminar held in Yaoundé      the seed production inspectors in charge of                                              landscapes.
                              from 10 to 12 April, as part of the                                                                                              dregion@cirad.mg
                                                                      seed and plant quality checks and certifica-
          C2D (Debt Reduction and Development Con-                    tion; and produce a catalogue for farmers.                                               https://madagascar.cirad.fr/
          tract). Numerous players from the different
          links in the value chain and the research                   denis.depommier@cirad.fr                                                                 https://www.dp-spad.org

          sector (IRAD, CIRAD, CARBAP, AfricaRice)
          participated. In particular, they decided, for              h t t p s : / /a f r i q u e - c e n t r a l e . c i r a d . f r/a c t u a l i t e s /
          the coming months, to: establish platforms                  seminaire-cirad-de-formation-dans-le-cadre-du-
                                                                      c2d-par-appui-a-la-valorisation-des-varietes-
          for talks between the Ministry of Agriculture,              ameliorees-de-l-irad-quelles-cles-pour-la-reussite-
          producers’ organizations and the private                    des-filieres-de-production-de-semences-et-plants/

                            West Indies-French Guiana-Caribbean

                                  A CARIBBEAN COCOA PROMOTION NETWORK KICKS OFF

                                                     T
                                                               he Réseau caribéen de valorisation du cacao                                                     https://www.forets-biodiv.org/
                                                               (RECAVACA) project was launched by the Associ-
                                                               ation Guadeloupe Equitable et Durable (AGED)
                                                               at CIRAD’s Neufchâteau site in Guadeloupe on
                                                               24 October 2017. The project, to be implemented
                                                       by AGED in partnership with CIRAD and the Coopérative
          D. Guard, CIRAD

                                                       Agricole Cacaoyère et de Commercialisation de la Grande
                                                        Anse (CACCOMA), will be co-funded for two years by the
                                                        Interreg Caribbean programme (ERDF). It intends to help
                                                       cocoa producers from Guadeloupe and Haiti produce
                                                       high-end cocoa that respects the principles of agro-ecol-
                                                      ogy and fair trade.

                                                   https://antilles-guyane.cirad.fr/actualites/2017/reseau-caribeen-de-
                                                  valorisation-du-cacao                                                                                        Illustrations: Myriam Merch

          CIRAD - 2017 HIGHLIGHTS - ACTIVITIES REPORT                                                                                                                                                     17
E. Penot © CIRAD
© L. Martin, CIRAD
© CIRAD

                     18   CIRAD - 2017 HIGHLIGHTS - ACTIVITIES REPORT
SHARING
                          KNOWLEDGE

                                        to build skills
                                            among
                                     development players,
                                          scientists,
                                         policymakers
                                        and producers

CIRAD - 2017 HIGHLIGHTS - ACTIVITIES REPORT                 19
SHARING
                                                                                                         KNOWLEDGE

     Scientific and technical information at CIRAD
                                                                                                   KEY FIGURES FOR

     2017
     Shared information resources
                                                                                                   2017                  2017
                                                                                                                         Ciradimages - 15 900 photos
          € 662 502 of journals, books and databases purchased                                                                  844     new photos

     OR                                                                                                                           including   226   glass plates
             per full-time
     €725    research post                              Database
                                                                                                 Books
                                                                                                             Tools and
                                                                                                             hardware

                                                                                                                         Tr
                                        Journals
              equivalent                                                                         4%            3%
                                        59%%              34%                                                            Training

               223 322      articles read on line                                                                               29 training sessions
               193 161      database searches
                                                                                                                         for   350 researchers and PhD students

                                                    Agris 4%                                     Autres 1%
                                                                                                                         Analysis of publications
                                                                                                                         2017
                                         Scopus 9%

                                 Agricola 15%                                                                                    9   bibliometric studies
                                                                                                                                     for teams and management
                                                                                                           Cab 51%

                             Web of Science 20%

                                                                                                                         2017
                                                                                                                         Accessing of DIST services

     2017
     Allocated information resources                                                                                            361 requests handled by the
                                                                                                                                       Questions en IST site

          € 52 514        170 journals ordered                                                                            14 069 visits to the DIST intranet site
                          and funded by research units
                                                                                                                          63 143 visits to the CoopIST website

     2017
     Agritrop - 100 000 documents                                                                                        2017
                                                                                                                         Digitization of CIRAD collections
          2 844 documents recorded                                                                                              120 books and 34 journals
                    56%      in full-text, open-access versions
                                                                                                                                 ie 300 000 pages in Gallica
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              873    articles published in    478    journals
              including

              250    in   119   open-access journals                                                                     11     works with CIRAD authors published by Quae

                                                                                                                                478    copies of Mémento de l’agronome sold
                61 articles with datasets (Figshare, NCBI, Dryad, etc)

20                                                                                                                                   CIRAD - 2017 HIGHLIGHTS - ACTIVITIES REPORT
SHARING
                                                                      KNOWLEDGE

 Agritrop is 7th in the French                             DIGITAL REPUBLIC
 open archive rankings
 After just two years, Agritrop, the open archive
                                                           CIRAD IS COMMITTED TO OPEN ACCESS
 for CIRAD publications, is 7th in the French open         TO SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
 archive rankings. It has also been highly success-
 ful on a European and global level. This is a

                                                           F
 remarkable result for CIRAD, reflecting its deter-                ollowing the vote                                                   ing article 38 of the law
 mination to improve free circulation of scientific                on 7 October 2016                                                   on text and data mining.
 knowledge worldwide. In Europe, Agritrop is                       in favour of a dig-                                                 They are calling on the
 172nd out of 900 open archives. Globally, it is                                                                                       European Union to
                                                                   ital republic, the
 396th out of 2284.
                                                                   French scientific                                                   commit fully to open sci-
                                                           community and its                                                           ence and open access.
                                                           member organizations                                                        The appel de Jussieu
                                                           launched several initia-                                                    dated 17 October, calling
                                     >                     tives aimed at fostering                                                    for open science and
                                    Marie-Claude           open access to publications, text and data              bibliodiversity, led by the AllEnvi and Avie-
                                    Deboin,                mining (TDM) and editorial innovation.                  san alliances and their members, insists on
                                    Scientific
                                    and Technical          CIRAD joined the movement through the                   the need to support innovation to ensure an
                                    Information            signing, by its President Managing Director,            in-depth reform of publishing activities.
                                    Coordinator
                                                           alongside other research and higher edu-
                                                           cation players, of several texts intended for           marie-claude.deboin@cirad.fr
                                                           Parliament and the Minister of Higher Edu-
DR

                                                           cation, Research and Innovation, following              CIRAD is committed to open access to nowledge
       “This 7th place after just two years                the negative advisory opinion expressed by              (pdf available at: https://www.cirad.fr/en/publi-
     confirms the visibility the open archive              the Conseil d’État on the decree implement-             cations-resources/cirad-publications)
           gives CIRAD’s publications
       and co-publications. It also proves
      the commitment of our researchers,
       who trigger the promotion process                   BURKINA FASO
         by uploading full-text versions                   A COMMUNITY OF CROPPING SYSTEM
              of their publications.”
                                                           SIMULATORS IS BORN

                                                           F
                                                                     rom 6 to 17 November, 30 agronomists,         to identify or build the model best suited to their
                                                                     ecologists, hydrologists, ecophysiolo-        field of study. The trainers, from CIRAD and the
 Malaysia                                                            gists and soil scientists from West Africa,   IRD, and the participants were delighted to take
 PRESTIGIOUS STATUS                                                  all working with CIRAD, went back to          part in the birth of a community of cropping
                                                                     school in Burkina Faso. The aim was to        system modellers in West Africa.
 FOR ONE OF CIRAD’S PARTNERS
                                                           train in dynamic modelling of cropping systems
 In Malaysia, the Institute of Tropical Forestry and       and in database management.
 Forest Products (INTROP) at Universiti Putra                                                                      sylvie.lewicki_dhainaut@cirad.fr
 Malaysia has been designated a “Higher Institu-           Over ten days of hard work, the researchers learnt
 tion Centre Of Excellence” (HICOE) by the govern-         why there are so many different models and how          https://afrique-ouest.cirad.fr/

 ment, with the help of CIRAD and its BioWooEB
 research unit. This is the result of active collab-
 oration, since 2009, on biofuels, biomass, and the
 financialization of agriculture and the forestry
 sector. This joint laboratory is an international
 platform for training through research, with a
 number of Masters and four PhD students. HICOE
                                                                                                                                                            © Rik Schuiling / TropCrop-TCS

 status is reviewed every three years, and brings
 with it a financial incentive of MR 3 million
 (€ 600 000).
 jean-marc.roda@cirad.fr
 https://intranet.cirad.fr/les-rubriques-du-portail/les-
 actualites/2017/actus/malaisie.-un-prestigieux-statut-
 delivre-a-un-institut-grace-au-cirad

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SHARING
                                                               KNOWLEDGE

                                HIGHER              CIRAD AND THE ENVT JOIN FORCES
                              EDUCATION             TO TRAIN ANIMAL HEALTH MANAGERS
                                                    IN THE SOUTH

                                                    M
                                                                 ichel Eddi and Isabelle Chmite-          GIMAT (Integrated management of tropical
                                                                 lin, Dean of the Ecole Nationale         animal diseases) and InterRisk (Health risk
                                                                 Vétérinaire de Toulouse                  assessment and management at the inter-
                                                                 (ENVT), signed a general
                                                                                                          face between man, animals and ecosystems),
                                                                 agreement on 27 February for
                                                                                                          and a MOOC (Massive Online Open Course)
                                                    cooperation on training, research and
                                                    expertise over the coming five years.                 on the basics of the epidemiology of animal
                                                                                                          diseases.
                                                    As members of the French Agricultural, Vet-
                                                    erinary and Forestry Institute (Agreenium),           The partnership will give rise to an annual
                                                    the ENVT and CIRAD have contributed for               action plan and may lead to more specific
                                                    many years to the training and research               agreements targeting joint operations of
                                                    structure in the new Occitanie region. More-          major, shared strategic interest for the two
     Isabelle Chmitelin, Dean of the ENVT,
                                                    over, they are working together within the
>

      and Michel Eddi, CIRAD President Managing                                                           establishments, or for Agreenium.
      Director, signed a general agreement          platforms in partnership for research and
      on 27 February for cooperation on training,
      research and expertise over the coming
                                                    training (dPs) set up in southern countries.
                                                                                                          https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/press-re-
      five years © CIRAD
                                                    In 2015-2016 alone, their links resulted in the       leases/2017/signing-cirad-envt-training-for-animal-
                                                    development of two international Masters,             health-managers-in-the-south

AQUACULTURE, PROSPECTS AND SOLUTIONS. A UNIQUE TEACHING RESOURCE

A
            lmost half of the fish intended for     These new forms of aquaculture are pre-               tion and veterinary medicine in warm
            human consumption are now               sented in this teaching resource. Aquacul-            regions, including its MUSC (MUltimedia for
            farmed. Aquaculture is a vital          ture, perspectives et solutions comprises             Science at CIRAD) platform. It was designed
            source of jobs, food and eco-           eleven chapters with contributions from               by researchers from CIRAD, IFREMER, the
            nomic opportunities, and by             international specialists, and is a mine of
                                                                                                          IRD, IRSTEA and AgroParisTech.
2030, is scheduled to account for two thirds        information and educational references for
of the fish produced worldwide. However, it         anyone interested in the issues surrounding
is increasingly under fire because of its           aquaculture worldwide.
environmental impact, social consequences,          The resource, produced in January with                lionel.dabbadie@cirad.fr
etc. Yet there are innovative technologies          support from the Université Virtuelle Envi-
and development methods that provide                ronnement et Développement (UVED), was                https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
hope for sustainable production in the              coordinated by the CIRAD-FVI joint team for           articles/2017/ca-vient-de-sortir/aquaculture-
future.                                             teaching and training in livestock produc-            prospects-and-solutions-a-unique-teaching-resource

                                                               Fish farm (catfish and sea bass) off Monastir,
                                                           >

                                                               Tunisia L. Dabbadie © CIRAD

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                                                            KNOWLEDGE

                                                 dP CANSEA. Regional agro-ecology workshop
AUF AND CIRAD RENEW                              The CANSEA platform in partnership for research        of the dP and how to broaden its scope with a
                                                 and training (dP) organized a workshop in Vien-        view to supporting the agro-ecological transition
THEIR PARTNERSHIP
                                                 tiane on 10 January. The aim was to hold discus-       in Southeast Asia.
CIRAD and the Agence universitaire de la
                                                 sions with all the platform partners on the future     florent.tivet@cirad.fr
Francophonie (AUF) signed a general agree-
ment on 14 April, with a view to strengthening
partnerships within the French-speaking
world.

CIRAD is a member of the French Agricultural,
Veterinary and Forestry Institute (Agreenium)
and of MUSE (Montpellier UniverSity of Excel-
lence), and is keen to work with countries in
the global South to develop intervention
frameworks and training courses tailored to
their requirements. The AUF helps structure
and develop research within a national and
international framework, and supports the
involvement of its members in this approach.
Its partnership with CIRAD is one example of
this
www.cirad.fr

https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
press-releases/2017/auf-cirad-partnership-
renewed

                                                 Population and economic pressure has speeded up        The major potential for dissemination of these
AGREEN U, THE DIGITAL
                                                 agricultural intensification in Southeast Asia. It     innovative systems is bolstered by the wide range of
AGRO-BIOSCIENCE                                  has also exacerbated the pressure on the available     players involved. The CANSEA platform is working
UNIVERSITY                                       land, and soil degradation. Conservation agriculture   to structure these initiatives on a regional level.
                                                 (CA) serves to preserve and restore soil fertility.    Drawing M. Khamla, Laos
Agreen U, which was launched in 2015 by
Agreenium, opened its doors in 2017. It is a
veritable virtual campus, which offers a range   THE SUDBIOTECH WORKSHOPS ARE TEN!
of digital resources and information and
training services in the field of agro-biosci-   The SudBiotech initiative (CIRAD, IRD, CNRS, Paris     Interview with Alain Rival, Coordinator,
ence. This is fostering the creation of educa-   Saclay University), which was launched to lay the      for CampusMag:
tion communities, centring on agro-ecology       foundations for a permanent network of teach-
                                                                                                                    https://www.youtube.com/
amongst other things.                            er-researchers in biotechnology, molecular biol-
                                                                                                                    watch?v=q25ESYq92wY
pascale.lajous@cirad.fr                          ogy and bioinformatics in Africa, works to
                                                 introduce innovative educational pathways at
https://www.agreenium.fr/sites/default/files/                                                           Film Comprendre et maîtriser
dossier_de_presse_agreen_v_web.pdf
                                                 universities. In ten years of classroom teaching,
                                                 SudBiotech has been deployed in Benin, Burkina         les biotechnologies au Sud:
                                                 Faso, Algeria and Tunisia.                             http://www.ird.fr/la-mediatheque/videos-en-
                                                                                                        ligne-canal-ird/comprendre-et-maitriser-
                                                 alain.rival@cirad.fr                                   les-biotechnologies-au-sud
         CIRAD is a founding member
           of Agreenium and MUSE

                                                                    Follow all CIRAD’s news > www.cirad.fr

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F. Ribeyre © CIRAD   A. Rival © CIRAD   P. Dugué © CIRAD

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SUPPORTING
    SOUTHERN COUNTRIES
                                            to make
                                      scientific research
                                        a prime driver
                                          in societal
                                          transitions

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SUPPORTING
                                                           SOUTHERN COUNTRIES

IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
THE DEBATE IS ON BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS
AND DONORS

H
            ow can we measure the impact of
            agricultural research? How can
            we contribute to research gov-
            ernance in such a way as to max-
            imize its impact in the field, in
terms of gains in productivity, environmen-
tal quality, efficiency all along the agrifood
chain, social relations, etc? These questions
were addressed by two projects, ImpresS
and Impresa, the results of which were pre-
sented, on the initiative of CIRAD, in Brussels
on 18 November. The presentation was fol-
lowed by talks with representatives of three
European Commission Directorates General
(Research and Innovation, Agriculture and
Rural Development, and Development and
Rural Cooperation) and the International
Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
                                                                             Impact illustrated by Eric Vall, CIRAD researcher
                                                                        >

This unprecedented meeting between sci-
entific organizations and donors paved the
                                                     ImpresS and Impresa push researchers to                      genowefa.blundo_canto@cirad.fr
way for a renewal of the way in which we
                                                     switch from a “culture of promises to a                      etienne.hainzelin@cirad.fr
assess impact, a debate on the place of              “culture of impact”. However, this change in
impact in competitive funding, and a                 culture will not be possible without the help
                                                                                                                  https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/
research and agricultural development                of the donors who determine the framework                    articles/2017/institutionnel/impact-of-agricultural-
policy rethink.                                      for research funding.                                        research

THE IMPRESS EX POST METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE                                                                          Sustainable palm oil
The ImpresS (Impact of Research in the South) ex     ImpresS methodological guide. Methodological guide to        CIRAD AND THE FRENCH
post method was developed by CIRAD to docu-          ex post evaluation of agricultural research in developing    ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE
ment the economic, societal and environmental        countries. Barret Danielle, Blundo Canto Genowefa, Dabat
                                                     Marie-Hélène, Devaux-Spatarakis Agathe, Faure Guy,
                                                                                                                  PALM OIL HAVE AGREED ON
impacts that research helps to generate in the
                                                     Hainzelin Etienne, Mathé Syndhia, Temple Ludovic, Toillier   A THREE-YEAR PARTNERSHIP
long term. It establishes causalities between
                                                     Aurélie, Triomphe Bernard, Vall Eric (illus.). 2017. Mont-
research activities and those impacts by involving                                                                On 27 February, during the Paris International
                                                     pellier: CIRAD, 96 p. ISBN 978-2-87614-736-2 http://
the various players concerned, whether they are                                                                   Agricultural Show, Michel Eddi and Guillaume
                                                     agritrop.cirad.fr/587552/
drivers of or impacted by innovation.                                                                             Réveilhac, President of the French Alliance for
                                                                                                                  Sustainable Palm Oil, announced the signing of a
                                                                                                                  three-year partnership agreement, in front of an
                                                                                                                  audience of NGOs and representatives of public
                                                                                                                  authorities.
                  Follow all CIRAD’s news > www.cirad.fr                                                          Through the agreement, the French Alliance for
                                                                                                                  Sustainable Palm Oil will be supporting research
                                                                                                                  projects to be conducted within the SALSA plat-
                                                                                                                  form. This group of French firms already buys 100%
                                                                                                                  RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil)-certi-
                                                                                                                  fied palm oil, of which 73% is classed as “segre-
                                                                                                                  gated”, the highest RSPO classification. It is now
                                                                                                                  aiming for “zero deforestation” by 2020.
                                                                                                                  cecile.bessou@cirad.fr
                                                                                                                  https://www.cirad.fr/en/news/all-news-items/press-
                                                                                                                  releases/2017/cirad-and-the-french-alliance-for-
                                                                                                                  sustainable-palm-oil-have-agreed-on-a-three-year-
                                                                                                                  partnership

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