News

14/09/22

First meeting of the Working Group on Sustaining soil and Water in Cultivated Soils

The first indoor meeting of the WG-SSAWCS will be held at IRD-Bondy (Paris-France) and will be combined with site visits to the University of Gembloux (Belgium) and Wageningen (WEPAL & ISRIC) to address issues related to water storage in soils and to assess the current state of soil compaction in...

21/09/20

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 international research, they explain how insects can contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)...

23/03/20

Covid-19 : expertise and IRD's partnership against the pandemic

The experience of IRD researchers in intertropical zones provides valuable lessons in terms of pandemic analysis, epidemiology, treatment and public health policy orientation.