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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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Conférence ICID 2010

Conference ICID 2010, Fortaleza, Brazil

Event, Ocean, climate, impacts, Observation and modeling tools, Natural risks and vulnerability , Health - 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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Psychotria sp. (Rubiaceae). South of French Guiana.

© IRD / Daniel Sabatier Psychotria sp. (Rubiaceae) - South of French Guiana.

© IRD / Daniel Sabatier

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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:

Horizon Pleins textes

72,000 bibliographic references spanning 60 years
Full-text search facility available on 42,000 articles.

http://www.documentation.ird.fr/


Sphaera

18 000 cartographic references
2700 maps and atlases in digitised format

http://www.cartographie.ird.fr/sphaera


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Editions IRD

Editions of the IRD on sale
http://www.ird.fr/editions

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IRD's presentation movie

Videos on line - Canal IRD

Books and movies , Life of the Institute

May 2009

The film of presentation of "Institut de Recherche pour le Développement" and of its activities.

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