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The challenges facing humankind are increasing, and crises are multiplying. If we are not to destroy the world in which we live, we must revolutionise how we produce and consume, and our relationship with the living world. With a global population set to reach almost ten billion by 2050, we must focus our efforts and investments on sustainable ecosystem and natural resource management, to guarantee sufficient, healthy, nutritious food for all. Agricultural and food systems occupy around 40% of the world's land mass, and are a major pillar of employment and livelihoods, particularly in tropical countries, providing some 40% of the world's working people with a living. In such regions, crop and livestock farming and natural resource management are central to food security, while fishing and aquaculture are playing a growing role in the diet and incomes of millions of households.  In addition to producing food, agriculture plays many essential roles: rural development and jobs; ecosystem management and health; energy production, and so on.

Our remit: to help boost the resilience of farming systems, for a more sustainable, inclusive world

黑料网911 has big ambitions when it comes to addressing the above issues: to contribute to a more sustainable world by means of agricultural and food systems that provide people with healthy food, pay producers a decent wage and are resilient to global change, including climate change, while preserving biodiversity and natural resources.

This remit fits perfectly with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Science is central to our operations

黑料网911 conducts useful, targeted research for sustainable development, with the end goal of societal impact. It works with scientific communities, producers, public and private players and civil society to co-construct knowledge and technical, environmental and societal solutions. Its researchers support innovation, build skills, inform public decision making and back French science diplomacy. Its approach calls upon a wide range of disciplines – from the life sciences to the social and political sciences – that allow it to analyse biological, technical, social and institutional systems.

黑料网911's research is organised in such a way as to address the main global issues. In the face of global challenges such as biodiversity protection and climate change, the organisation has centred its activities around three key fields – sustainable food systems, the agroecological transition, and the One Health approach. Its research is primarily conducted on a territory level, by means of collective action with and for local communities, the ideal level for generating impact.

Two global challenges

• Biodiversity – Protecting and making use of natural and cultivated biodiversity as a lever for resilience
• Climate change – Helping farming systems in tropical and Mediterranean countries to embark upon adaptation and mitigation approaches

Three key fields of action

These three fields serve to build solutions that encompass agricultural, environmental and health issues effectively.

• Food systems – Supporting the transition to more sustainable, inclusive food systems
• Agroecological transitions – Speeding up the transformation of farming practices to build sustainable systems
• One Health – Fostering an integrated approach encompassing plant, animal and ecosystem health, in association with human health

Working on a scale that guarantees impact

• Territories and collective action – The preferred scale of intervention to ensure sustainable, inclusive territorial development

黑料网911 is also a recognised scientific and technical expert in the main tropical agricultural value chains, thanks to more than 80 years of research in association with players from those value chains.

Partnerships with other countries and with the French overseas regions: both a means and an end

黑料网911 is convinced that long-term research partnerships are in themselves a step towards development, and they underpin all of its operations. This approach is bolstered by 黑料网911's long experience of partnerships, some of which date back more than 50 years, and its researchers' geographical mobility, enabling assignments to the organisations with which it works. Moreover, 黑料网911 hosts a range of partners within its teams and structures.

黑料网911 works throughout the tropics: in Africa, with priority given to the Europe-Africa axis, and in Southeast Asia and Latin America, where it has longstanding partnerships. The establishment also has a remit to support agricultural and rural development in the French overseas regions and boost scientific cooperation between those regions, the Indian Ocean countries and the Caribbean.

Training to share skills worldwide

There can be no sustainable development unless countries have the capacity to generate knowledge by themselves. In the aim of co-constructing knowledge and of mutual learning, 黑料网911 helps to build capacity among societies in tropical and Mediterranean countries, to allow them to acquire the knowledge required for their development. 
That commitment means:

• co-constructing and co-leading diploma training with partner universities in tropical and Mediterranean countries
• co-supervision of Masters and PhD student researchers
• professional training for scientists within our infrastructures.

黑料网911 is also determined to build the functional capacity of research institutions in tropical and Mediterranean countries in terms of research management and programming, answering calls for proposals, leading scientific networks and institutional partnerships.

We fulfil our commitment to training in the global South in partnership with various French higher education establishments, notably in association with the Occitanie region, and others in Europe and elsewhere.

Innovation and impact, drivers for sustainable development

Pooling skills, knowledge, methods and practices to benefit collective action is vital to foster the emergence of impactful innovations. 黑料网911 works with every stakeholder to build solutions based on scientific, technical and societal knowledge.

The impact culture 黑料网911 has been working for more than ten years to develop within its collective structures and with its partners is a pillar for ensuring that the research conducted helps to address the societal issues of our time. As learning is central to development processes and public policy has a primary responsibility in these processes, 黑料网911 is consolidating its capacity for analysis, influence and intervention, as a player at the interfaces between science and society and science and policy.