Publications
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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 ...