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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Season’s greetings!
15 December 2011
The IRD presents you its best wishes for 2012. See the animation on line!...
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389 - Cards reshuffled in Saharan geopolitics
November Learn more
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388 - Revised Earth history favours the search for African gold
November Learn more
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387 - In search of lost water under glaciers
October Learn more
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386 - The first climate change refugees from Vanuatu still under threat
October Learn more
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Annual report 2010 of the IRD
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Scientific production
The scientific results of the IRD research programs are accessible in two databases in line and on the Editions website:
72,000 bibliographic references spanning 60 years
Full-text search facility available on 42,000 articles.
http://www.documentation.ird.fr/
18 000 cartographic references
2700 maps and atlases in digitised format
http://www.cartographie.ird.fr/sphaera
Editions of the IRD on sale
http://www.ird.fr/editions
