Publications
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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 ...
Exploiter durablement les forêts tropicales
(2024)
Over the last thirty years, more than four hundred million hectares of tropical forest have been destroyed. Added to this deforestation is forest degradation, which in some regions of the world, such as the Amazon, affects ...
Restaurer les milieux et prévenir les inondations grâce au génie végétal
(2018)
Public policies in France and in Europe obligate decision makers to consider an integrated management of habitats and territories that combines several benefits. This book provides innovative vegetation engineering solutions ...
L'élevage des grands camélidés
(2022)
The ancestor of the large camelids, originally from North America, is thought to have migrated to Asia several million years ago, to settle in arid areas: the Arabian Peninsula for the dromedaries - also called Arabian ...
Zoonoses
(2022)
Animals are all around us. We overlap with them in environments across the globe, which leads to myriad interactions, including shared infectious and parasitic diseases. Such diseases, known as zoonoses, are the focus of ...
Effets des sons anthropiques sur la faune marine
(2022)
The development of offshore wind energy is currently under debate. The possible detrimental effects of noise pollution on marine life are a legitimate concern for civil society, industry and political bodies. This book, ...
Forests, carbon cycle and climate change
(2010)
The results presented in this book summarize the main findings of the CARBOFOR project, which brought together 52 scientists from 14 research units to investigate the effects of future climate on the carbon cycle, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
La systémique agraire à l'Inra
(2021)
Based on original research, combining archives and oral testimonies, this work traces, from the first trial and error of systemic approaches in the 1960s to the turning point of sustainable development in the 2000s, the ...
La méthode IDEA4 Indicateurs de durabilité des exploitations agricoles
(2023)
IDEA4 is a method for assessing and analyzing farm sustainability. Its theoretical framework combines a dual approach based on the three dimensions of sustainability - agroecological, socio-territorial, economic - and the ...
Comportement, conduite et bien-être animal
(2014)
This work outlines the general principles and recommendations on the raising of domestic animals applied to the Southern countries, especially tropical regions. These recommendations are important in a context of intensification ...
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 ...
Transformations agricoles et agroalimentaires
(2017)
This work provides a synthesis of recent research on the evolution of agriculture and food in a capitalist system. It is based on approaches not well-known in France such as international political economy and ecological ...
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 ...
Innovation and development in agricultural and food systems
(2018)
Innovation is often presented as one of the main catalysts for more sustainable and inclusive development. In the agricultural and food sectors, innovation is characterized not only by specificities arising from its ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
Oil Palm Fertilization Guide
(2022)
Intended as guide for designing the fertilization system in oil palm plantations, this book explains in clear language how to define fertilizer recommendations for each plantation, considering the specific characteristics ...
Oil Palm Fertilization Guide
(2022)
Intended as guide for designing the fertilization system in oil palm plantations, this book explains in clear language how to define fertilizer recommendations for each plantation, considering the specific characteristics ...
Impacts des produits phytopharmaceutiques sur la biodiversité et les services écosystémiques
(2023)
As part of the Ecophyto II+ plan, INRAE and Ifremer were entrusted in 2020 with the task of conducting a collective scientific assessment on the impacts of plant protection products on biodiversity and ecosystem services. ...
La transition agro-écologique des agricultures du Sud
(2019)
Food security, jobs, ecological transition of production and consumption modes and more One of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, agro-ecology could be one solution for meeting the forthcoming challenges for ...
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, ...
Living territories to transform the world
(2017)
What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, ...
Living territories to transform the world
(2017)
What resources underpin the development of a territory? What does territorial management of resources mean? What specific characteristics and opportunities does territorial organization offer for agricultural production, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Identification des poissons par leurs otolithes en 3D
(2024)
The otolith, a calcified part in the inner ear of fish, evolves throughout the life of an individual and is generally used to estimate its age. So how do we analyze this tiny mineral particle, and what does it tell us about ...
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 ...
Un droit pour les forêts
(2023)
Forests are receiving increasing attention from public authorities and civil society. They provide raw materials and valuable reserves of biodiversity. They also have recreational and ecosystem functions. The law is also ...
Un droit pour les forêts
(2023)
Forests are receiving increasing attention from public authorities and civil society. They provide raw materials and valuable reserves of biodiversity. They also have recreational and ecosystem functions. The law is also ...
Protecting crops through plant diversity
(2024)
The advent of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides freed farmers from yield-limiting environmental constraints while simplifying agricultural fields and landscapes. The environmental and health impacts of this dominant ...
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 ...
Désertification et changement climatique, un même combat ?
(2024)
What are the causes of vegetation and soil degradation? What are the consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity, water resources and the climate? What are the impacts on human societies and the economy? Often wrongly perceived ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hétéroptères phytophages et prédateurs d'Afrique de l'Ouest
(2011)
"Specific studies on the biodiversity or the implementation of the concept of integrated farming imply the need to know how to identify the insect pests or natural enemies. In some countries, growing transgenic, ...
Protecting crops through plant diversity
(2024)
The advent of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides freed farmers from yield-limiting environmental constraints while simplifying agricultural fields and landscapes. The environmental and health impacts of this dominant ...