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Excavation of Border Cave by the French - South African team
200,000 year-old beds made of grass on ash
An international team of archaeologists led by the University of Witwatersrand and involving CNRS reveals that our ancestors living in South Africa were using ash and grass to...
Women cultivating sweet potatoes (recession crop) near Podor (Senegal)
Sweetpotato biodiversity can help increase climate-resilience of small-scale farming
Sweetpotato biodiversity can help increase climate-resilience of small-scale farming, according to the findings of a study undertaken by researchers from the French public research...
Abalone farm.

30/09/20

[Webinar] Ensuring food security in Africa through sustainable aquaculture

Did you think about where the last prawn or fish you ate came from? Chances are that they grew in an aquaculture farm! For a few years now, the majority of seafood we consume has...

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The ACE-partner project: strengthening thematic training and research networks in West Africa
The result of an institutional collaboration between IRD, AFD, the World Bank and the Association of African Universities (AAU), the ACE Partner project promotes the influence and...
Colobathristide bug (ordered Heteroptera), Pilchicocha (Ecuador).
Solving global challenges using insect research
IRD researchers and their partners have published a special issue in the Current Opinion in Insect Science journal. Using an interdisciplinary approach and based on examples from...
Pollution plastique en Indonésie
European Sustainable Development Weeks: Indonesia calls on European expertise in space to optimize marine waste collection
Indonesia is among the biggest contributors to marine plastic pollution. In response to this emergency, the Indonesian government is engaging a range of actions to tackle a scourge...
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Les calamars chassent ou se reproduisent la nuit.
International virtual Symposium on Coastal and Marine Biodiversity (ISCOMBIO 2020)
L'Indonésie est l'une des plus grandes nations maritimes du monde. Cet État archipélagique occupe une position et un rôle uniques et stratégiques dans la socio-économie et les...
The IRD representative office in Nairobi.
Dominique Dumet, new IRD representative in Kenya and East Africa
We warmly welcome Dr Dominique Dumet, senior researcher at the French Research Institute for Sustainable Development, who took office on September 1, 2020.
Daily life in Madagascar.

07/09/20

Scientific stopovers on the coastline of the Indian Ocean

Imagine yourself travelling along the coasts of the Western Indian Ocean… From the Cape of Good Hope to Zanzibar, via the long beaches of Mozambique and the Reunion Island idyllic...