Publications
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Génétiquement indéterminé
(2007)
"Contemporary biology is called to accommodate the idea that while DNA is involved in the formation of an individual, the other constituents of the organism or of its environment are also determining factors. Nothing is ...
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 ...
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 ...
Une troisième voie entre l'État et le marché
(2017)
Following the trip to France by the 2009 Nobel Prizewinner in Economic Sciences, Elinor Ostrom, the authors of this work set out her teaching based on her direct interactions with the public. It is an entire critique of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Durabilité des systèmes pour la sécurité alimentaire
(2024)
Food and nutritional security refers to the challenge of providing sustainable, healthy and accessible food to all people. It has four interconnected dimensions: availability, access, utilization and stability. Tackling ...
Biodiversity and strategy
(2023)
Biodiversity conservation calls for a revolutionary approach to our relationship with nature and the living world. But it also requires completely rethinking the way we develop international policies and strategies. While ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Durabilité des systèmes pour la sécurité alimentaire
(2024)
Food and nutritional security refers to the challenge of providing sustainable, healthy and accessible food to all people. It has four interconnected dimensions: availability, access, utilization and stability. Tackling ...
Construire des politiques alimentaires urbaines
(2017)
This book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies at the crossroads of food system and sustainable city concepts. It serves as a basis to identify research issues in relation to ...
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 ...
Construire des politiques alimentaires urbaines
(2017)
This book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies at the crossroads of food system and sustainable city concepts. It serves as a basis to identify research issues in relation to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Les invasions biologiques marines
(2024)
Biological invasions are one of the main causes of biodiversity decline worldwide. While Japanese knotweed and tiger mosquito are invasive species that are well known to the public, the same could not be said for the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Des solutions fondées sur la nature — Une réponse aux défis environnementaux et sociétaux
(2025)
Since the early 2010s, the concept of Nature-based Solutions has been integrated into land development projects to reconcile environmental issues with societal needs. But the concept still raises many questions. How can ...
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 ...
Invasion et expansion d'insectes bioagresseurs forestiers — Invasion et expansion d'insectes bioagresseurs forestiers ?
(2025)
Covering almost a third of mainland France, forests represent a major challenge in terms of wood production and the preservation of ecosystems that have not been heavily anthropised. They have become a powerful lever in ...
Barrages-réservoirs et crues de la Seine
(2024)
Climate change and the current context of environmental crises are prompting those involved in water resource management to rethink the hydrological systems inherited from past centuries. As an international reference, the ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Attachement et changement dans un monde en transformation
(2022)
Let's ask the question around us: "Why don't people change?" The answer will most often be: "because they are too attached to their privileges, traditions, achievements, relationships, cultures, lands, etc. They will never ...
Pesticides en viticulture
(2022)
The phytosanitary protection of vineyards raises many questions of interest to winegrowers. What diseases and pests attack vines in the different producing countries? What vineyard management practices ensure phytosanitary ...
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 ...
Justice environnementale dans les espaces ruraux en Afrique
(2023)
The notion of environmental justice is emerging in the face of evidence of differential access to environmental resources and unequal distribution of environmental risks affecting certain social groups. Often addressed in ...
Bioeconomy challenges and implementation: the European research organisations' perspective
(2018)
This book focuses on opportunities and challenges in implementing a bioeconomy strategy from a research and education perspective. It draws on contributions presented during the 30th EURAGRI annual conference held in Tartu ...
Appuyer les organisations de producteurs
(2012)
Producer organisations are very numerous and active in the farming modernisation process in southern developing countries. This didactic work analyses the advantage of the partnership with producer organisations, how they ...
L’écotoxicologie en questions
(2022)
In a context where we are increasingly able to detect and quantify contaminants and highlight their effects on organisms, what can ecotoxicology contribute today? A better understanding of the problems linked to contaminants, ...
Transformative Participation for Socio-Ecological Sustainability
(2024)
We, as humans, are currently facing urgent socio-ecological challenges (climate change, demographic increase, booming inequalities, etc.). These challenges are reinforced by systems of financial control at the internatio ...
Sols urbains, environnement et santé
(2024)
A number of political and technical guidelines suggest reinvesting wasteland, developing urban community gardens, oasis courtyards and a circular waste economy. Nevertheless, soil quality is often overlooked in urban ...
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 ...
Diffusion and transfer of knowledge in agriculture
(2016)
This book focuses on innovation in the agri-food system and the new paradigm drawn by bioeconomic approaches and principles. It draws on contributions presented during the 29th EURAGRI annual conference held in Luxemburg ...
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 ...
Pesticides
(2015)
Pesticides are today the subject of considerable environmental issues. This work presents the outcome of fifteen years of research financed by the French Ministry of Ecology on the reduction in environmental risks from ...
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 ...
Pesticides
(2015)
Pesticides are today the subject of considerable environmental issues. This work presents the outcome of fifteen years of research financed by the French Ministry of Ecology on the reduction in environmental risks from ...
Les légumineuses pour des systèmes agricoles et alimentaires durables
(2015)
What do we know about inputs and potential of legumes in terms of the sustainability of agricultural and food systems? How can they be used to reduce the damage and maximise the benefits for the environment, agriculture ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Les pêches côtières bretonnes
(2010)
The book focuses on the situation of Brittany coastal fishing in the early 2000s. It addresses the question of regulated access to fishing resources. It examines the exploitation of main stocks and the characteristics of ...
La fabrique de la ville en transition
(2022)
Faced with the ecological imperative, how have public action and professional and citizen practices been positioned and reconfigured in France in the fields of urban planning and architecture since the 2000s? How have 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 ...
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.
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.
Impacts of plant protection products on biodiversity and ecosystem services
(2023)
As part of the Ecophyto II+ plan, INRAE and Ifremer were in 2020 commissioned to conduct a collective scientific assessment of the impacts of plant protection products on biodiversity and ecosystem services. The results, ...
Sugar beet
(2020)
Sugar beet has entered the age of liberalism with the abolition of production quotas in Europe. It finds itself on the world market and on an equal footing with sugar cane. France has benefited from the “AKER - Sugar beet ...
From jungle rubber to Rubber Agroforestry Systems
(2024)
Rubber Agroforestry Systems (RAS) have been developed by local farmers in Southeast Asia initially through the development of jungle rubber. Jungle rubber is a very practical and easy way to develop at very low cost non ...
Le genre en recherche
(2024)
While the representation of women in science is on the rise, this increase is not of the same magnitude in all fields, such as mathematics and computer science, for example. What's more, their presence decreases as one ...
Le marché alimentaire à horizon 2050 en France
(2024)
Where and how will we do our shopping tomorrow? With the rise of digital platforms, self-service is being called into question, in the food sector as elsewhere. And yesterday's customer journey is being groped and reinvented. ...
Transformer le lait local en Afrique de l'Ouest
(2021)
Milk production and marketing in West Africa is an integral part of the economy and way of life of rural herder and agropastoralist families. They represent a significant socio-economic and environmental challenge for the ...
One Health, une seule santé
(2020)
One Health, « Une seule santé », est une stratégie mondiale visant à développer les collaborations interdisciplinaires pour la santé humaine, animale et environnementale. Elle promeut une approche intégrée, systémique et ...
Une seule santé
(2024)
Since the Covid-19 pandemic, the One Health initiative has been widely endorsed by politicians and scientists alike, highlighting the interdependence between human, animal and environmental health, and bringing these ...
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 ...
La betterave sucrière
(2020)
Sugar beet has entered the age of liberalism with the abolition of production quotas in Europe. It finds itself on the world market and on an equal footing with sugar cane. France has benefited from the “AKER - Sugar beet ...
Les arthropodes du cotonnier
(2024)
Cotton produces the majority of natural fibers used in clothing today. The production of this fiber, a raw material marketed worldwide, can be reduced to nothing if disease or pest attacks are not kept under control. The ...
Jeux de plateau pour l’agriculture et le paysage
(2023)
In France and around the world, there's a growing trend towards board games for agriculture and landscaping. Most of the time, this craze is the result of isolated initiatives, successful or not, based on trial and error. ...
L'acidification des océans
(2024)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels by human activity, reinforce the greenhouse effect and cause climate disruption. While public awareness of this global problem is growing, ocean ...
Sustainable food systems for food security
(2022)
Food and nutritional security refers to the challenge of providing sustainable, healthy and accessible food to all people. It has four interconnected dimensions: availability, access, utilization and stability. Tackling ...
Science et émotion
(2022)
The history of science is littered with the lives of famous scientists, such as Charles Darwin, Marie Curie or Albert Einstein, who have recounted their passion for research and the emotions that contributed to it. Generally ...
Agroécologie
(2020)
L’agroécologie a été choisie par l’Inra comme l’un des chantiers de prospective interdisciplinaire destiné à identifier les fronts de recherche en réponse à de grands défis sociétaux. Quatre-vingt chercheurs ont dressé un ...
Infrastructures de données spatiales
(2022)
The demands and uses of satellite spatial data are developing and diversifying significantly, in line with the precision, frequency of shooting and size of the images. It is therefore necessary to understand and report on ...
Des choses de la nature et de leurs droits
(2020)
The purpose of environmental law is to protect nature, to fight against pollution and nuisances, to improve the quality of life and public health. In light of recent legal innovations, the author examines the transformations ...