Research project(s)
IRD in Western and Central Africa
Access to land: a major public policy challenge
November 2010
There has been renewed interest in the land tenure issue in recent years owing to persistent poverty and increasing inequality in the rural societies of the South, and the growing number of conflicts arising from competition for access to land in areas where there is much movement between town ...
Lake Chad : Adapting to a fluctuating resource
Lake Chad, located in the heart of the Sahel strip, is a vital water resource for fishermen, herders and crop farmers in the countries that border its shores − Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon. The lake has undergone enormous changes in recent decades. A multidisciplinary research program ...
Saharan migration: the truth a far cry from popular myths
January 2004
Migration from sub-Saharan Africa to North Africa has increased as never before over the past 15 years or so. What routes are the migrants following and how are they settling in North Africa? What social and spatial changes are these new settlement patterns generating? What effects are today’s ...
Synergy between insecticide and repellent to combat malaria-carrying mosquitoes
January 2007
With 40% of the world’s population, mainly in the poorest countries, exposed to malaria risk and over 500 million people falling ill with the disease each year, it is still the most worrying tropical parasite disease. Most deaths from malaria occur in sub-Saharan Africa and most of those who die ...
Tracking the source of the AIDS virus
January 2002
By showing that the chimpanzee is the natural reservoir of the virus that has caused the AIDS pandemic, and by discovering that the gorilla also carries a virus closely related to HIV-1, IRD scientists have pinned down the origin of the AIDS virus and confirmed that it has been transmitted ...
