The IRD is a unique institution in the landscape of European research for development. Its task is to conduct research in the South, for the South, with the South.
Its researchers are working on issues of major global importance today: global warming, emerging diseases, biodiversity, access to water, migration, poverty, world hunger. The teaching and training they provide empowers and enables Southern scientific communities.
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Conference ICID 2010, Fortaleza, Brazil
12 August 2010
The 2nd International Conference: Climate, Sustainability and Development in Semi-arid Regions (ICID 2010) will be held in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil in August 2010, as a contribution to the Rio +20 – The United Nations Conference on Development and the Environment, which will take place in 2012. ...
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May 2009
The film of presentation of "Institut de Recherche pour le Développement" and of its activities.
