The French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, or ''Institut de Recherche pour le Développement'' (IRD), is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of Higher Education and Research and

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. It operates internationally from its headquarters in

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, and two metropolitan centres of

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and

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. It was created as the ''Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer'' or ORSTOM (Overseas Scientific and Technical Research Office) in 1943.

Missions

The IRD institute has three main missions: research on

developing countries A developing country is a sovereign state with a less-developed Secondary sector of the economy, industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to developed countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. ...

and

French overseas territories Overseas France (, also ) consists of 13 French territories outside Europe, mostly the remnants of the French colonial empire that remained a part of the French state under various statuses after decolonisation. Most are part of the European ...

development, overseas consultancy and training. It conducts scientific programs contributing to the sustainable development of the countries of the South, with an emphasis on the relationship between man and the environment. Since 1955, the Institute has maintained an institutional archive to preserve and disseminate its scientific productions. The Institute develops an open access policy for its documents. The archive currently contains over 96,000 documents and constitutes the IRD documentary collection (FDI "Fonds Documentaire IRD").

Organisation

The IRD's scientific activities are organised through five scientific departments coordinated by a deputy director for science: * Dynamics of the Internal and Surface of Continents (DISCO); * Ecology, Biodiversity and Functioning of Continental Ecosystems (ECOBIO); * Oceans, Climate and Resources (OCEANS); * Health and Societies (SAS); * Societies and Globalization (SOC). IRD has established new scientific cooperation bodies in recent years that promote co-construction of research projects. These structures provide funding and autonomy to associated young research teams (JEAI), Mixed International Laboratories (LMI), Mixed International Units (UMI), and International Research Laboratory Networks (GDRI). Additionally, these programs encourage collaborations between countries in the global South.

Associated people

A number of notable researchers are or have been associated with Institut de recherche pour le développement, including: *

Jean Marie Bosser Jean Marie Bosser (23 December 1922 – 6 December 2013), sometimes listed as Jean-Michel Bosser was a French botanist and agricultural engineer who worked extensively in Madagascar and Mauritius. Bosser was a researcher at the Laboratoire de P ...

- botanist and agronomical engineer *

André Briend André Briend is a French pediatric nutritionist best known for his 1996 co-formulation of Plumpy'nut, a Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF), with Dr. Mark Manary.Nutriset"Nutriset's timeline"/ref> Starting in 1994, Briend, who at the time worke ...

- pediatric nutritionist * Jean-Philippe Chippaux - snakebite and tropical medicine expert *

Jean-Paul Gonzalez Jean-Paul Joseph Gonzalez (born August 28, 1947) is a French virologist. He graduated from the Medical School of Bordeaux University (M.D., Internal Medicine) France. Research career Gonzalez is a virologist whose main fields of research encom ...

- virologist *

Khadijetou Lekweiry Khadijetou Mint Lekweiry is a Mauritanian biologist and virologist, specializing in malaria transmission in her country. In 2009 Lekweiry was awarded a L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Science Awards to support her research, related to the transmission ...

- virologist *

Michel Luc Michel Luc (7 February 1927 – 18 January 2010) was a French zoologist (nematologist) and one of the founding fathers of the field of plant-nematology. He spent his career with ORSTOM (''Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer'' ...

- nematologist *

Denis Vidal Denis Vidal (born 4 July 1954) is a French anthropologist with a doctorate degree from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and the Université de Nanterre. He is an associate professor at the EHESS School for Advanced Studies in the Social Scien ...

- anthropologist

References

External links

Official website

Videos from Canal IRD Web TV

IRD on-line scientific library (37,000 documents for downloading)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Institut de recherche pour le developpement Government agencies of France Research institutes in France Organizations based in Marseille

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