The IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement) is a French research organism, original and unique on the European development research scene.
Emphasizing interdisciplinarity, the IRD has focused its research for over 65 years on the relationship between man and its environment, in Africa, Mediterranean, Latin America, Asia and the French tropical overseas territories.
Its research, training and innovation activities are intended to contribute to the social, economic and cultural development of southern countries.
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Explaining cancer to better prevent it
13 June 2013
A new disease is affecting developing countries, deadlier than malaria, AIDS and tuberculosis combined. With changes in lifestyles, cancer is spreading in southern countries. Today, more than 70 % of the 7.5 million deaths in the world occur in countries with low or middle income. Faced with this ...
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Annual report 2010 of the IRD
Scientific publications, maps, IRD publications
The work of research scientists from the IRD are available in two online databases and on the site of the publications.
80 000 referenced publications
52 000 downloadable documents
http://www.documentation.ird.fr/
18 000 referenced cartographic documents
2 800 downloadable maps
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The IRD Editions are intended to publish the works of researchers of the institute and its main French and foreign partners on the issues of environment and development in the Southern countries.
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Baaba and Yenghébane Islands - New Caledonia
Located at 1,500 km of Australia, and 20,000 km of the metropolis, the archipelago of New Caledonia covers a vast maritime whole of 1,740,000 km2, because of distance of certain islands. In certain zones isolated and mountainous, like here, at the north-western end of the Large Earth in Northern Province, on the islands of Poum, the question of the water provision arises particularly. The islands of Yenghébane and Baaba profit from a drain arriving of the island of Boat-Pass, but water always does not arrive in sufficient quantity. One thus recovers there also rainwater. Projects of improvement of the living conditions (desalination plant, distribution network) on these islands are in hand.
Find the most beautiful pictures published on the New Caledonia atlas on our picture library.
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