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Fanny Brun: promoting high technology to protect endangered glaciers

A specialist in Himalayan and Alpine glaciers, Fanny Brun was recently awarded the International Glaciological Society's Early Career Scientist award. She is a glaciologist at IRD's Institute of Environmental Geosciences in Grenoble, developing original approaches to monitor the evolution of these...

Small-scale family farming, an age-old model and sustainable solution for the Global South

Family farming, an age-old way of working the land, also embodies a tangible future for sustainable farming in the Global South. It a crucial and promising sector, in light of the number of farmers involved, production volumes, surface areas cultivated, well-established growing practices and...
Paysage rural sahélien avec arbres et cultures à leurs pieds.

The Great Green Wall, for the benefit of environments and rural societies in the Sahelo-Saharan zone

The Great Green Wall is an unprecedented project designed to mitigate the effects of climate change and combat land degradation and poverty in the Sahelo-Saharan zone. The project represents much more than a simple reforestation initiative on the edge of the desert. It mobilizes scientists...

Biodiversity: between fragility and sustainability

All the indicators agree: erosion of biodiversity has now reached a level not seen in hundreds of thousands of years. Human activity is to blame, and its impact is not just being felt by such emblematic species and ecosystems as the polar bear or Great Barrier Reef. The major health, social and...

Uganda may hold the key to the future of robusta coffee!

Hit by climate change, coffee production is seriously under threat. To combat this risk, international teams, including the IRD team led by Valérie Poncet, went in search of wild coffee plants such as robusta in the forests of Uganda. They thus identified previously unknown and drought-resistant...

These tiny oceanic creatures are essential to tackling climate change

In praise of glaciers, those dragons of ice viewed with concern and fascination

Geneviève Zabré: A determined young researcher

#WomensDay In September 2018, Geneviève Zabré, a young biologist from Burkina Faso, won first place in the international competition for French speakers called “My Thesis in 180 Seconds”. Her victory was due to a very remarkable presentation of her thesis work, supported in part by the IRD. Find out...

4 per 1000 initiative

Capturing carbon in the air and storing it in the ground to fight climate change: this is the goal of the ambitious 4 per 1000 strategy. This initiative, the subject of an international research programme, is mobilising several teams at the IRD.
Etude des fonds coralliens en Nouvelle-Calédonie, dans le cadre du projet PRISTINE, 2013.

Effectiveness of marine reserves compromised by proximity to humans

The environmental benefits of marine reserves located near human populations are limited. This was demonstrated by researchers from the University of Montpellier, IRD and the University of New Caledonia, in conjunction with CNRS, as they studied 1,800 coral reefs, 106 of which were located in 20...