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Le lapin
(2015)
This work is the first manual devoted specifically to rabbit biology. It recounts the history of the domestic rabbit and summarises current knowledge. It also makes concrete recommendations on rabbit breeding practices for ...
Qualité des aliments d'origine animale
(2021)
For the past ten years or so, numerous studies have questioned our consumption of food of animal origin. The impacts of animal husbandry on the environment, the effects on human health of excessive consumption of red meat ...
Gouverner la biodiversité ou comment réussir à échouer
(2021)
Why are we so successful in failing environmental policy? This book sheds light on the conditions of impossibility of governance of biodiversity. The author traces the role of the notion of biodiversity and conservation ...
Agricultural robotics: part of the new deal?
(2021)
Throughout the fifth edition of the International Forum of Agricultural Robots (FIRA) in December 2020, more than 1,500 farmers, manufacturers, advanced technology suppliers, innovators, investors, journalists and experts ...
Carrières d'halieutes
(2020)
Who never dreamed of traveling the world and being in the thick of it? to fly over the Red Sea in a helicopter or to cross Algeria in search of fishing sites? For ambitious, what about being promoted to consultant in Iran, ...
Sociologie des changements de pratiques en agriculture
(2019)
Cet ouvrage rend compte de la façon dont les dynamiques de changements de pratiques des agriculteurs sont liées à la structure des réseaux de dialogues professionnels dans lesquels ils sont insérés. Développant une analyse ...
Sociologie des changements de pratiques en agriculture
(2019)
Cet ouvrage rend compte de la façon dont les dynamiques de changements de pratiques des agriculteurs sont liées à la structure des réseaux de dialogues professionnels dans lesquels ils sont insérés. Développant une analyse ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recherche agronomique et politique agricole
(2019)
Father of animal genetics in France and of the 1966 law on livestock farming, in 1978 Jacques Poly signed the report entitled ‘Towards a more economical and autonomous agriculture’, coinciding with his becoming an executive ...
Livestock grazing systems and sustainable development in the Mediterranean and Tropical areas
(2022)
Family-run ruminant pasture farms in Mediterranean and tropical territories contribute directly to eight of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. For a long time, these farms ...
Le moustique, ennemi public n° 1 ?
(2022)
The invasive presence of mosquitoes and their pathogens is changing our daily lives and challenging our lifestyles. Mosquitoes contribute to thousands of deaths worldwide each year by transmitting various parasites and ...
Le moustique, ennemi public n° 1 ?
(2022)
The invasive presence of mosquitoes and their pathogens is changing our daily lives and challenging our lifestyles. Mosquitoes contribute to thousands of deaths worldwide each year by transmitting various parasites and ...
Le palmier à huile en plantation villageoise
(2013)
The oil palm food-processing sector relies hugely on village plantations. Intended especially for small oil palm planters, this book provides the technical and practical bases for creating and developing their palm stand. ...
Le palmier à huile en plantation villageoise
(2013)
The oil palm food-processing sector relies hugely on village plantations. Intended especially for small oil palm planters, this book provides the technical and practical bases for creating and developing their palm stand. ...
Les projets alimentaires territoriaux
(2024)
Introduced by the 2014 law on the future of agriculture, food and forestry, territorial food projects (PATs) have seen unprecedented popularity in recent years. While in July 2019 only 27 PATs were recognized by the Ministry ...
Les projets alimentaires territoriaux
(2024)
Introduced by the 2014 law on the future of agriculture, food and forestry, territorial food projects (PATs) have seen unprecedented popularity in recent years. While in July 2019 only 27 PATs were recognized by the Ministry ...
Impacts et services issus des élevages européens
(2019)
Depuis le milieu des années 2000, l’élevage fait l’objet de vifs débats en raison de ses impacts sur le climat et l’environnement, accentués par la hausse de la consommation mondiale en viandes et produits laitiers. Les ...
Impacts et services issus des élevages européens
(2019)
Depuis le milieu des années 2000, l’élevage fait l’objet de vifs débats en raison de ses impacts sur le climat et l’environnement, accentués par la hausse de la consommation mondiale en viandes et produits laitiers. Les ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dictionnaire d'agroécologie
(2024)
Whether you're a citizen, an agricultural professional, a development worker, a scientist or a student, we're all concerned by the issues surrounding agriculture and food. The aim of this agroecology dictionary is to inform ...
Dictionnaire d'agroécologie
(2024)
Whether you're a citizen, an agricultural professional, a development worker, a scientist or a student, we're all concerned by the issues surrounding agriculture and food. The aim of this agroecology dictionary is to inform ...
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 ...
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 ...
Apprendre à innover dans un monde incertain
(2012)
Urged on by new expectations of society, key rural players experiment with different agricultural and food systems, showing proof of creativity and stubbornness faced with the ever-dominant mass production.But what type ...
Apprendre à innover dans un monde incertain
(2012)
Urged on by new expectations of society, key rural players experiment with different agricultural and food systems, showing proof of creativity and stubbornness faced with the ever-dominant mass production.But what type ...
Épigénétique
(2024)
In this book, epigenetics is understood as the science of molecules and mechanisms involved in controlling gene activity without altering their sequence, and which thus contribute to cellular functions. It enables us to ...
Épigénétique
(2024)
In this book, epigenetics is understood as the science of molecules and mechanisms involved in controlling gene activity without altering their sequence, and which thus contribute to cellular functions. It enables us to ...
Le sorgho
(2013)
Sorghum is a vital food crop for populations in arid and sub-arid areas. It is also cultivated in temperate areas for animal feed. This book addresses all aspects of the plant (biology, genetics, sensitivity to pests) ...
Le sorgho
(2013)
Sorghum is a vital food crop for populations in arid and sub-arid areas. It is also cultivated in temperate areas for animal feed. This book addresses all aspects of the plant (biology, genetics, sensitivity to pests) ...
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 ...
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 ...
Evolving the common agricultural policy for tomorrow's challenges
(2023)
As in other parts of the world, agriculture in Europe is not sustainable. It must urgently and importantly evolve. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must foster this evolution. In that perspective, this book draws the ...
Evolving the Common Agricultural Policy for Tomorrow's Challenges
(2022)
As in other parts of the world, agriculture in Europe is not sustainable. It must urgently and importantly evolve. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) must foster this evolution. In that perspective, this book draws the ...
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 ...
Innovation et développement dans les systèmes agricoles et alimentaires
(2018)
Innovation is often touted as one of the key levers for promoting a more sustainable development. The book looks at innovation in the agri-food sector in light of today's major challenges by examining the different dimensions ...
Une recherche dé-coïncidente pour se préparer aux crises environnementales et alimentaires
(2024)
The extreme fragility of the ecosystems that support food production calls for an alternative approach to scientific research, as well as a bold analysis of the public policies needed to feed the planet, in an environment ...
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 ...
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 ...
L'Institut de l’Élevage
(2022)
In the early 1960s, French livestock production was at a crossroads, having been disrupted by the impact of agricultural modernisation and European integration. Public authorities and professional representatives agreed ...
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 ...
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 ...
Les énergies renouvelables en France
(2024)
How are renewable energies being deployed in France today, with what constraints and for what results? National and European legislation sets ambitious targets for achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. However, it is up to ...
Sols artificialisés
(2019)
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 ...
Studying food and eaters
(2023)
Researchers rarely reveal the details of the methodological choices on which their research is based. The theoretical and practical considerations that have guided them in these choices often remain implicit. In this book, ...
Les grands lacs à l'épreuve de l'anthropocène
(2023)
Many of the world's large lakes are, in fact, not large enough to cope with the uses to which they are put by human activities, as they have been going on for over a century. The limits of these continental-scale ...
Sols artificialisés
(2019)
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 ...
Télédétection et modélisation spatiale
(2022)
Mosquitoes are vectors of many disease-causing agents, such as malaria, dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever. According to the World Health Organisation, they cause several hundred thousand deaths each year. They are also ...
L'apiculture
(2008)
This book, through its clear explanatory text and admirable illustrations, skilfully lays out the elements of good practice in tropical beekeeping. It explains both traditional techniques using low-cost hives and more ...
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 ...
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 ...
Nouvelles raisons d'agir des acteurs de la pêche et de l'agriculture
(2016)
Faced with advancing technology and their entitlement to exploit this living resource, farmers and fishermen are questioning their very livelihood and how to change it. This book examines elements contributing to the reasons ...
Feux de végétation
(2022)
Each year, the world burns an area of forest and natural vegetation equivalent to that of Europe. Climate, human activities and vegetation are the three main factors that control fires and sometimes modify their behaviour ...
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 ...
Trente années d'observation des micro-algues et des toxines d'algues sur le littoral
(2018)
Rephy and Rephytox are coastal monitoring networks created by Ifremer. Their purpose is to observe the phytoplankton and associate hydrological parameters and to detect the algal toxins accumulating in shellfish. This work ...
Trente années d'observation des micro-algues et des toxines d'algues sur le littoral
(2018)
Rephy and Rephytox are coastal monitoring networks created by Ifremer. Their purpose is to observe the phytoplankton and associate hydrological parameters and to detect the algal toxins accumulating in shellfish. This work ...
Biomasse
(2019)
Based on abundant literature, Benoit Daviron sketches for us a long, economic and political history of the biomass. Farming is not just about providing food, nor is it alone in supplying the biomass. How, before and after ...
Biomasse
(2019)
Based on abundant literature, Benoit Daviron sketches for us a long, economic and political history of the biomass. Farming is not just about providing food, nor is it alone in supplying the biomass. How, before and after ...
Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud
(2023)
In the South, access to land and its resources, its control and its uses are crucial issues. At the heart of the challenges of state-building, agricultural development, food security and environmental sustainability, land ...
Systèmes agraires et changement climatique au Sud
(2019)
Based on the comparative study of local, contrasting situations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, this book highlights the processes that explain the tremendous exposure to hazards of various farmer groups and ...
Systèmes agraires et changement climatique au Sud
(2019)
Based on the comparative study of local, contrasting situations in Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia, this book highlights the processes that explain the tremendous exposure to hazards of various farmer groups and ...
Pluribiose
(2024)
Scientists regularly use microbes in their research. However, they often overlook their richness and potential for action and reaction, particularly in their attempts to control or eradicate them. Antibiotic resistance, a ...
De l'arbre en ville à la forêt urbaine
(2024)
Tree planting is used by many municipalities as a natural solution to the challenges of climate change. This choice makes it possible to lower temperatures by combating urban heat islands, provide support for biodiversity, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Le foncier rural dans les pays du Sud
(2023)
In the South, access to land and its resources, its control and its uses are crucial issues. At the heart of the challenges of state-building, agricultural development, food security and environmental sustainability, land ...
Récits de recherche sur l'eau dans un monde interdisciplinaire
(2024)
In this book, eleven original accounts by researchers from a variety of disciplines (sociology, process engineering, water science, computer modeling, anthropology, hydrogeology, agronomy, ecology) illustrate concrete ways ...
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 ...
Diversité des agricultures familiales
(2014)
This book aims to explain the nature and the force of links between the family and the farm. It is constructed around twenty case studies in miscellaneous countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The authors clarify "
Diversité des agricultures familiales
(2014)
This book aims to explain the nature and the force of links between the family and the farm. It is constructed around twenty case studies in miscellaneous countries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. The authors clarify "
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 ...
Elevage au pâturage et développement durable des territoires méditerranéens et tropicaux
(2022)
Family-run ruminant pasture farms in Mediterranean and tropical territories contribute directly to eight of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. For a long time, these farms ...
Livestock grazing systems and sustainable development in the Mediterranean and Tropical areas
(2023)
Family-run ruminant grazing systems in the Mediterranean and tropical areas contribute directly to eight of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda. For a long time, these ...
Émergence de maladies infectieuses
(2016)
SARS, avian flu, Ebola, Mers-Cov... Over the past few decades, infectious diseases have come under increasing scrutiny from scientists, risk managers, the media and the public. Why do infectious diseases keep emerging? And ...
Les virus marins
(2023)
Viruses continue to fascinate and frighten us because of their pathogenic nature for plants and animals. In the seas and oceans, they are major players in the functioning of ecosystems. Viruses are the smallest, most ...
Grasslands and Herbivore Production in Europe and Effects of Common Policies
(2014)
The European project Multisward ( http://www.multisward.eu/multisward_eng/ ) aims at supporting developments and innovations in grassland use and management in different European farming systems (including low-input and ...
Grasslands and Herbivore Production in Europe and Effects of Common Policies
(2014)
The European project Multisward ( http://www.multisward.eu/multisward_eng/ ) aims at supporting developments and innovations in grassland use and management in different European farming systems (including low-input and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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). ...
Coopérations, territoires et entreprises agroalimentaires
(2010)
The Cota, territorialised food-processing cooperation partnerships, are made up of groups of SME which apply pioneering collective strategies to improve their competitiveness by using the region as a decisive variable. The ...
Le renouveau des territoires par la bioéconomie
(2022)
Jean-Marc Callois proposes to understand the mechanisms of territorial development, to identify the local potential of bioresources and the articulation between uses, to activate the various public policy tools, to articulate ...
Les cultures fourragères
(2014)
Tropical forage crops used to feed the livestock are of crucial important in the sustainable development of hot regions. The first part of this work is intended to guide the choice of forage plants and their crops (diversity ...
Les cultures fourragères
(2014)
Tropical forage crops used to feed the livestock are of crucial important in the sustainable development of hot regions. The first part of this work is intended to guide the choice of forage plants and their crops (diversity ...
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 ...
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 ...
Oyapock et Maroni
(2021)
Guyana, delimited by its border rivers, the Oyapock and the Maroni, is a French Amazonian territory in South America, remarkable for its rich biodiversity. The Guyanese coastline, which stretches for 350 km between the ...
The agroecological transition of agricultural systems in the Global South
(2019)
"Food security, jobs, ecological transition of agricultural production models and consumption patterns... Agroecology could be one of the solutions to meet the future challenges of humanity. Part of the United Nation’s 17 ...
L'eutrophisation
(2018)
Eutrophication affects many lakes, reservoirs, rivers and coastal areas in France and throughout the world. It has a major disruptive effect on aquatic ecosystems and an impact on assets and associated services, human ...
La conscience des animaux
(2018)
Can animals experience emotions? Do they have a life story? The INRA addressed these questions by performing a collective scientific assessment of animal consciousness. This multidisciplinary evaluation, in which a vast ...
Vigne, vin et changement climatique
(2024)
Climate change is having a number of effects on vines, including earlier development, possibly leading to greater vulnerability to spring frosts and a definite advance in the grape ripening period.
In addition, increasingly ...
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 ...
Guide pour l'évaluation de l'agroécologie
(2023)
The Guide for the evaluation of agroecology proposes an approach and methodological tools to assess, on the one hand, the effects of agroecological practices and systems on the agro-environmental and socio-economic performance ...
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 ...
Qualité des aliments d'origine animale
(2021)
For the past ten years or so, numerous studies have questioned our consumption of food of animal origin. The impacts of animal husbandry on the environment, the effects on human health of excessive consumption of red meat ...