The research projects
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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 ...
Agroecology in Vietnam
January 2005 - December 2008
The astounding economic growth of Southeast Asia, and of Vietnam in particular, is not without consequences for the environment. As increasing demands are made on the land, soils are becoming acidified, losing their mineral and organic content and eroding. The nutrients they lose pollute ...
Chikungunya epidemic in la Réunion: The "tiger mosquito" extends its range
January 2006
Chikungunya is a viral infection transmitted by mosquitoes. It affects thousands of people in the Indian Ocean, India and Central Africa. In 2006, an outbreak of unprecedented scale struck La Réunion and other islands in the southwest of the Indian Ocean. This prompted researchers from the IRD ...
Ciguatera, a new hazard for the intertropical zone
January 2001
Occurring throughout the tropics, ciguatera is a form of food poisoning caused by eating certain species of fish contaminated with toxins from micro-algae that live on coral reefs. 100,000 cases of severe poisoning are recorded every year. The symptoms are gastrointestinal and neurological: ...
Conflict and prospects for peace in Côte d'Ivoire
January 2007
Since the attempted coup of September 2002, Côte d’Ivoire has been struggling to overcome a military and political crisis that has split the country into areas controlled by government forces in the south and rebel forces in the north. Identity-based tensions between communities have worsened ...
Diagnosing nutritional vulnerability in Burkina Faso
January 2005
In the Sahel countries, it is a constant challenge to identify the most vulnerable populations so as to prevent food crises and malnutrition. Research by the IRD in Burkina Faso may help to address the challenge. Nutritionists and epidemiologists have shown that analysing dietary diversity in ...
Endangered coral ecosystems : Marine protected areas could help
January 2005
Coral reefs, which are home to thousands of fish species, are today threatened with extinction. The cause: global warming, which is killing the corals as ocean temperatures rise. In collaboration with an international team, the IRD has measured the long-term impact of El Niño on Indian Ocean ...
Environmental approach to urban change in Addis Abeba
January 2001
Most major cities in the South are a concentration of deep poverty and chronic lack of infrastructure, with excessively rapid urban growth causing major environmental degradation. This situation raises many questions for sustainable development. IRD researchers are taking an environmental ...
Farming the giant of the Amazon
January 2006
The Amazon and its tributaries are home almost a tenth of global biodiversity in freshwater fish. But intensive fishing of Arapaima gigas, the "giant of the Amazon" threatens the survival of the species in the region, and hence its biodiversity. Fish farming opens prospects for ...
Fish and fishermen in South America: a game of hide and seek
November 2010
The world’s largest single-species fishery is based on a fish less than eight inches long: the Peruvian anchovy. The annual catch is very variable, and has oscillated between 0.1 and 15 million tonnes since the 1960s. Daily catches can be as much as 170,000 tonnes (for comparison, the French ...
