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e-roso, a digital tool for farming operations
25/04/2024
In Madagascar, the NGO Fert uses e-roso, developed by the Aïda unit, to support farm management. In its first year of use, this tool is used by just under a hundred advisors working with 700 farmers.
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Publication of the handbook of agro-ecological transition in the Benin cotton zone
01/03/2024
This second version of the handbook is enriched by new findings from research and development work carried out in the field and on station. Cotton growers who applied agro-ecological cotton production itineraries saw their yields double for all crops grown according to these technical recommendations.
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Louise Leroux wins IRD photo competition: The many facets of millet
20/02/2024
To mark the International Year of Millet, supported by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations), Louise Leroux was awarded the Jury's Grand Prize in the photography competition launched by the IRD in 2013.
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Promoting the sugarcane sector of the future: four CIRAD ambitions to frame operations
15/01/2024
Sugarcane is increasingly being grown worldwide. In addition to being used to make sugar, of which global consumption is rising, it has a growing range of uses, including for energy production. How can we tackle the many economic, social and environmental challenges posed by the expansion of sugarcane growing? CIRAD presents its vision for a future in which sugarcane will contribute to sustainable development.
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Sustainability of cotton-growing systems in Africa: four ambitions to guide CIRAD's research
06/12/2023
Cotton provides the world’s leading natural fibre. but the sector is facing new challenges including climate change as well as social and environmental issues. To address those challenges, CIRAD has pinpointed four ambitions that will frame its cotton research over the coming decade.
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A Systems Approach to Agroecology
27/11/2023
As agroecology gains momentum in the international research-for-development arena, there is an urgent need for methods and tools to support the co-design and evaluation of agroecological systems and their transitions. A book by CIRAD researcher Pablo Tittonell (Aïda reserach unit), published on 2 November, gives insights into the methodologies available.
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Carbon sequestration in the soil: what agriculture can do
06/11/2023
It's there, under our feet. In our daily lives, we hardly look at it, and yet it is nothing less than the largest stock of carbon in the earth's ecosystems. It's not the forests or the atmosphere that have the most carbon, but the soil. Around 2,400 billion tonnes of carbon can be found in the first two metres below ground, three times more than is found in the atmosphere. In this article published in The Conversation, Rémi Cardinael, agronomy researcher (UPR Aïda / CIRAD), Armwell Shumba, agronomy researcher (University of Zimbabwe) & Vira Leng, doctoral student (Université de Montpellier) assess the agricultural practices used in Zimbabwe and Cambodia to increase soil carbon stocks.
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03/07/2023
A list of 52 pioneers and champions of conservation agriculture around the world has been published by No-Till Farmer... Four of them work (or used to work) for CIRAD in our unit.
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E-roso : un nouvel outil de conseil technico-économique à Madagascar
15/12/2022
Le nouvel outil de conseil e-roso, développé en lien avec le Cirad, permet de mieux accompagner le développement des exploitations et la professionnalisation des organisations paysannes.
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Parution "La canne à sucre à La Réunion"
11/05/2022
Un ouvrage qui donne à lire une approche systémique de la canne à sucre à travers une analyse sociétale, économique et environnementale.