• Flooded rice in Casamance, Senegal. @ E. Faye, CIRAD

    Flooded rice in Casamance, Senegal. @ E. Faye, CIRAD

  • Mature cotton bolls in Benin. © B. Bachelier, CIRAD

    Mature cotton bolls in Benin. © B. Bachelier, CIRAD

  • Sugar cane trial plots in Réunion Island. © M. Christina, CIRAD

    Sugar cane trial plots in Réunion Island. © M. Christina, CIRAD

  • Pest observations on millet in Senegal. © T. Brévault, CIRAD

    Pest observations on millet in Senegal. © T. Brévault, CIRAD

  • Cassava stalks for planting in Cambodia. © R. Cardinael, CIRAD

    Cassava stalks for planting in Cambodia. © R. Cardinael, CIRAD

  • Rice harvest in Madagascar. © K. Naudin, CIRAD

    Rice harvest in Madagascar. © K. Naudin, CIRAD

  • Environmental measurement system in Zimbabwe. © R. Cardinael, CIRAD

    Environmental measurement system in Zimbabwe. © R. Cardinael, CIRAD

Evaluating and designing agroecological cropping systems for family farming in the South

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The research unit "Agroecology and sustainable intensification of annual crops" (AIDA) works on the intensification and sustainability of annual crop production in terms of quantity and, where relevant, quality, in a particularly constrained tropical environment. To that end, the aim of its research is to ensure optimum use of available resources, by exploiting the ecological processes that govern their dynamics within agrosystems.

It makes coordinated use of all the technical components and all the associated disciplines that contribute towards such optimum use, whether it involve the integrated management of trophic resources or of pests and diseases, and including varieties. It is involved in developing a wide range of assessment methods and tools for different purposes, different people and different scales, including spatial information modelling or analysis.

By including agricultural engineering, it goes as far as to propose novel systems and concrete technical options that can be co-designed then adapted with producers and local stakeholders. It seeks to document some major challenges facing society and to fuel the associated debates: food security, the major agricultural and environmental balances (carbon, water, minerals) and agro‑ecosystem interactions with biodiversity and climate change.

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Our research teams

Key figures of the unit

  • 90
  • Salaried staff
  • 50%
  • Salaried staff outside metropolitan France
  • 72
  • Trainees and doctoral students
  • >40
  • Partners in France and abroad
  • 105
  • Projects and expertise

A talent, a profession: Jean-Maurice Gueno

Agricultural technician at the Aïda research unitJean-Maurice Gueno takes us on a journey to the heart of his job, his missions, his daily life and his commitment... Based in Réunion, he specialises in sugar cane.Agricultural technician at the Aïda research unitJean-Maurice Gueno takes us on a journey to the heart of his job, his missions, his daily life and his commitment... Based in Reunion Island, he specialises in sugar cane. (video in French)