Publications
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La transition numérique dans la recherche et l'enseignement supérieur à l'horizon 2040
(2020)
Plateformes, réseaux sociaux, ressources en ligne, simulations, apprentissage à distance, données d’apprentissage, données massives, intelligence artificielle… la transition numérique bouleverse l’enseignement supérieur ...
Éléments d'hydraulique torrentielle
(2023)
Torrential hydraulics occupies an intermediate position between classical fluvial hydraulics and soil and rock mechanics (ground movements); it uses concepts common to fluvial hydraulics, sometimes departing from them. ...
Le golfe du Lion
(2009)
The ORME programme (Observatoire régional méditerranéen de l'environnement) is a CNRS multidisciplinary research structure that studies the environment as a scientific object and centres its work on the Gulf of Lion, a ...
Une recherche responsable
(2023)
Scientific integrity is defined by the French Research Code as "the set of rules and values that must govern research activities in order to guarantee their honest and rigorous nature". It applies to all knowledge production ...
Zéro pesticide
(2022)
The use of chemical pesticides is a major societal concern because of their negative impacts on the environment and health. The Priority Research Programme (PPR) "Cultiver et Protéger Autrement" (Growing and Protecting ...
Coexistence et confrontation des modèles agricoles et alimentaires
(2021)
New agricultural and food models are being deployed in the territories in response to criticism of old forms and to face new challenges. They embody archetypes of the diversity observed, actor projects or even new standards. ...
La vache globale
(2022)
The ideal of the modern cow, a mix of nature, culture and technoscience, is embodied today by the Holstein-Frisonne, the most productive dairy breed, present throughout the world. The object of intensive selection and ...
Les zoonoses
(2021)
We have multiple contacts with animals. They are everywhere around us. We share the same environment, the same planet ... and we also share infectious or parasitic diseases. This book sheds a synthetic light on the diseases ...
Eating in the city
(2020)
This book explores changes in eating habits in African, Latin American and Asian cities. It reveals—through studies on city dwellers’ food practices and representations—the inadequacy of an analytical approach to these ...
Architecture et croissance des plantes
(2016)
This book, in epub format, is the result of 40 years of research on modeling the development and growth of plants. The authors reveal, step by step, the process leading up to the creation of the GreenLab model and the ...
Filière forêt-bois et atténuation du changement
(2020)
While the main challenge in intertropical and boreal regions is tackling deforestation and forest resource degradation, forests and forestry in temperate regions face what may appear to be contradictory goals: to increase ...
Parasites et parasitoses des poissons
(2014)
This richly-illustrated work offers a representative panorama of parasitic agents encountered in fish. Based on the new phylogenetic classification concepts, it emphasises the biological properties, epidemiology and clinical ...
La santé animale
(2006)
"This second volume La santé animale covers the main livestock diseases in detail: infectious and parasitic diseases, vector-borne diseases, and diseases linked to the environment and to rearing conditions. Each disease ...
Féminin-masculin
(2014)
Where are we today in the place of women in family agricultures compared with men, in both Northern and Southern countries. Based on very diverse field studies, this book exposes the need to analyse family agricultures ...
Dynamique des élevages pastoraux et agropastoraux en Afrique intertropicale
(2019)
De 1974 à 2014, l’Afrique intertropicale a connu une croissance inédite des effectifs des herbivores domestiques. Les effectifs bovins ont été multipliés par plus de 2, ceux des petits ruminants par plus de 3. Aujourd’hui, ...
Une agronomie pour le XXIe siècle
(2018)
The challenge for agricultural systems today is to produce whilst drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions, in limited agricultural spaces where the biodiversity, quality of resources, soils, water, air, etc. all have ...
Les semences
(2013)
A complete guide on seed production and distribution in tropical regions: technical aspects and organisation of seed production, basic principles for plant improvement and seed biology, management of operations relating ...
Quelles agricultures irriguées demain?
(2020)
L’agriculture irriguée produit plus de 40 % de l’alimentation mondiale sur moins de 20 % des terres cultivées. L’irrigation, qui consiste à agir sur le cycle naturel de l’eau pour conduire et sécuriser les cultures dans ...
Forêts et changement climatique
(2022)
Among the observed climate changes, the increase in the frequency and intensity of droughts is at the heart of foresters' concerns. The speed and extent of these changes, the long life span of trees, and the impossibility ...
Stocker du carbone dans les sols français
(2021)
The "4 per 1000: Soils for Food Security and Climate" initiative proposes to increase the stock of carbon in all soils around the world by four thousandths each year. At the request of Ademe and the Ministry of Agriculture ...
Le bien-être des animaux d'élevage
(2022)
Following on from the 'Understanding' and 'Assessing' booklets, this booklet presents ways to improve farm animal welfare, focusing on the physical and social environment of animals, the human-animal relationship, pain ...
Climatiser le monde
(2020)
La question climatique s’est diffusée dans de nombreuses sphères de la vie publique, forçant des acteurs parfois assez éloignés des enjeux écologiques à s’y intéresser. Un nombre croissant de firmes, d’associations et ...
Artificialized land and land take
(2020)
Considered as one of the main factors in erosion of the biodiversity, land take describes the global reduction in the proportion of land allocated to farming and forestry or to natural spaces. This work identifies the ...
La modélisation d'accompagnement
(2010)
"Sustainable development and its expression in terms of participation by local stakeholders in future choices in regions where they live or work have become topical issues. Companion modelling is particularly original among ...
L'eau en milieu agricole
(2020)
L’eau est un enjeu majeur dans de nombreuses régions du monde du fait de besoins en forte croissance, mais aussi de la rareté et de la dégradation des ressources disponibles. L’agriculture étant le premier usager de la ...
Une écologie de l'alimentation
(2021)
Rethinking our food is rethinking our societies. Because to share a meal and even to do his races are a means of connecting with others. The way we eat builds our health. Our agricultural production methods shape our ...
The forestry & wood sector and climate change mitigation
(2020)
While the main challenge in intertropical and boreal regions is tackling deforestation and forest resource degradation, forests and forestry in temperate regions face what may appear to be contradictory goals: to increase ...
Public policies and food systems in Latin America
(2022)
Food problems are the order of the day. Solving the problems of hunger and malnutrition, producing and guaranteeing access to healthy food, preserving the environment, valuing local cultures and ensuring citizen participation ...
Marine renewable energies
(2009)
The ocean is a huge reservoir of renewable energy sources, such as wind, currents, tides, waves, marine biomass, thermal energy, osmotic power, and so on. Like other maritime nations in Europe, France enjoys significant ...
Piloter la fertilisation du palmier à huile
(2020)
This guide designs fertilization schemes for oil palm plantations. It explains in clear language how to develop a fertilization scheme tailored to individual plantations taking the specific characteristics of each site ...
Guide de gestion des dunes et des plages associées
(2018)
This practical guide benefits from the experience of several authors and experts in managing coastal dune environments and in preventing natural risks. It presents useful tools in resolving problems of daily dune management.
Les services écosystémiques
(2016)
Over the last ten years, the concept of "ecosystem services" has become an essential part of our vocabulary when talking about biodiversity. This book discusses the origins, causes and consequences of this notion; it delves ...
La montée du niveau de la mer d'ici 2100
(2021)
By at least 2100, humanity will have to face the inevitable phenomenon of rising sea levels. This phenomenon will increasingly affect the coastline and coastal areas where many populations and economic activities are ...
Méthodes d'investigation de l'alimentation et des mangeurs
(2021)
Researchers rarely reveal the details of the methodological choices that underpin their research. The theoretical and practical considerations that have guided them in these choices often remain implicit. In this book, the ...
Le séchage des mangues
(2009)
This work presents the different stages in mango processing, from fruit delivery to dried mango marketing. It includes a detailed analysis of each operation: theoretical principles, equipment required, good practice in ...
La traction animale
(2010)
Draught animals can reduce the laboriousness of human work and lessen poverty in developing countries by facilitating soil cultivation and transport. This updated and illustrated practical summary of knowledge on animal ...
Manger en ville
(2020)
Cet ouvrage expose les changements des habitudes alimentaires dans des villes d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine et d’Asie. À travers l’étude des pratiques et des représentations alimentaires de citadins, il montre l’insuffisance ...
STICS soil-crop model
(2023)
The STICS crop model has been developed since 1996 at INRA (French National Institute for Agronomic Research) in collaboration with other research and technical institutes. The model syntheses, illustrates and concretizes ...
Stratégies de publication scientifique
(2013)
Publish or perish! Researchers are very familiar with this injunction. But what should be published, where, when, how and with whom? Some questions to which this book attempts to find answers. Filled with numerous links ...
Peut-on se passer du cuivre en protection des cultures biologiques ?
(2019)
Le cuivre est utilisé pour contrôler diverses maladies fongiques ou bactériennes, principalement sur vigne, en productions fruitières et en cultures légumières. Il constitue la seule substance active à effet fongicide fort ...
Le palmier à huile
(2011)
Palm oil, extracted from the pulp of oil palm fruit, is the main source of vegetable fats and oils on the world market. Its ability to adapt to different climates and its productivity make it a major food safety component ...
Le manioc, entre culture alimentaire et filière agro-industrielle
(2018)
The cassava-processing industry plays a key role in food safety and in the economies in the Global South, mainly in rural areas but increasingly in cities too. Climate change is expected to play an even greater role in ...
Into the woods
(2018)
At the centre of concerns related to curbing the decline in forest biodiversity caused by increasing anthropogenic pressure and global change, old-growth forests are mainly characterised by the continuity of their tree ...
Surveillance, maintenance and diagnosis of flood protection dikes
(2007)
This technical handbook is intended for the personnel of companies or organisations involved in the management of dikes designed to provide protection against flooding caused by a rise in river levels. Written for engineers ...
Mémento de l'assainissement
(2018)
This Handbook is a methodological and practical guide for putting liquid sanitation services into operation in the Southern countries. It covers the entire wastewater and sludge collection and treatment chain in rural, ...
Les terres agricoles face à l'urbanisation
(2018)
This work addresses the key points of the problem of land consumption by focusing on farmland in France and Australia. It suggests exploring territorial engineering “toolboxes†developed and used to face up to the ...
Services écosystémiques fournis par les espaces agricoles
(2018)
Based on analyses by agricultural and legal experts, this work offers food for thought on using the law to include the notion of ecosystem service in soil protection. It has been written as part of the research programme ...
Agroforesterie et services écosystémiques en zone tropicale
(2019)
Respectueux de l'environnement et garantissant une sécurité alimentaire soutenue par la diversification des productions et des revenus qu'ils procurent, les systèmes agroforestiers apparaissent comme un modèle prometteur ...
Strategic management of agricultural and life sciences research
(2019)
New developments - scientific, technical, societal and political - influence not only the agenda for research but also research structures, resource requirements (human and otherwise), education and training programs and ...
Grassland use in Europe
(2019)
"Covering 40% of the European agricultural area, grasslands are vitally important both for agriculture and society. These grasslands serve multiple functions, including the local provision of fodder for animal husbandry ...
Land Use and Food Security in 2050
(2018)
"After a first foresight study on ‘World food security in 2050’ (Agrimonde), CIRAD and INRA have turned their attention to a new foresight exercise on ‘Land use and food security in 2050’ (Agrimonde-Terra). This new study ...
Insectes ravageurs des graines de légumineuses
(2011)
Using the concrete example of industrial and food crop legumes in West Africa, the authors reflect on the development of African agriculture in the context of sustainable development. They address exhaustively the biology ...
Services écosystémiques et protection des sols
(2018)
Based on analyses by agricultural and legal experts, this work offers food for thought on using the law to include the notion of ecosystem service in soil protection. It has been written as part of the research programme ...
L'histoire de l'Inra, entre science et politique
(2018)
Set up during the food crisis in the aftermath of the Second World War, France's National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) was founded on the notion that public scientific research into the management of life in ...
Une petite histoire de l'alimentation française
(2017)
To mark its 30th anniversary, the National Food Council interviewed the players who have contributed to its history. Some opted to write a reflective account of their experience. Others produced a theoretical assessment ...
Stratégies des filières fromagères sous AOP en Europe
(2018)
To explain the origin of the differences in milk prices paid to producers, this work provides a framework for analyzing the mechanisms of governance of PDO cheeses, which are organised in localised agri-food systems (SYAL). ...
Emergence of infectious diseases
(2018)
From SARS to avian influenza, Ebola virus and MERS-CoV, infectious diseases have received increasing attention in recent decades from scientists, risk managers, the media and the general public. What explains the constant ...
Can organic agriculture cope without copper for disease control?
(2019)
Copper is used to control various fungal and bacterial diseases, especially in organic farming where synthetic fungicides are prohibited. The use of copper is subject to increasing regulatory restrictions in Europe due to ...
Le fonio, une céréale africaine
(2011)
"For years a basic food of many rural African communities, fonio, an African cereal with very small grains, has now been discovered by urban consumers in major African cities.
This book describes the plant and grains and ...
Le bananier plantain
(2019)
Les bananes à cuire et plantain sont des productionscruciales des pays des zones tropicales humides. Très énergétiques (110 à 120cal/100 g), riches en éléments minéraux et en vitamines, ces aliments répondentaux enjeux de ...