Priority research plateform and training in partnership

Last update: 15 February 2023

CIRAD is present in some 50 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, and has defined a geopartnership strategy based on the implementation of research and training systems in partnership. The unit is piloting one scheme, running another and contributing to five others.

Plans managed or animated by the unit

Forests of Central Africa

Central African Forest Research Network - R2FAC

How can policies and intervention strategies be improved at different scales to ensure the long-term preservation of the Congo Basin forests, food security for the population and an increase in livelihoods?

This CIRAD partnership arrangement for Central African Forests takes the form of a network of institutions whose charter was presented at the 18th meeting of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) in Brussels in November 2018 and signed by 14 founding members. The network is intended to welcome new institutional or individual members.

The main objective of the network is to federate research activities around Central African forests, in particular by facilitating the co-mounting of regional projects, supporting scientific animation and strengthening training at the master/PhD level.

Practical information

Animator and CIRAD correspondent : Vivien Rossi et Guillaume Lescuyer

Location: Gabon, Congo, DR Congo, Cameroon, Central African Republic CAR

COPIL President: IRAD

Animation unit: IRET, INERA, CIFOR, Cirad

Founding members : University Yaoundé I/Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS Cameroon), Institut de la Recherche Agricole pour le Développement (IRAD Cameroon), Université Marien Ngouabi (UMNG Congo), Institut National de Recherche Forestière (IRF Congo), Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masoukou/Institut National Supérieur d'Agronomie et de Biotechnologie (USTM/INSAB Gabon), Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale (IRET Gabon), University of Bangui (CAR), Institut Centrafricain de Recherche Agronomique (ICRA CAR), University of Kisangani (UniKis DRC), Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomique (INERA DRC), University of Liège, IRD, CIFOR, CIRAD.

Charte R2FAC signée ts mbres fondateurs 07 19 (3 Mo)

Amazon forests

Forests, agricultures and territories in Amazonia - Amazonia

How can we reconcile environmental preservation and support for rural populations in the Amazon region, where the ecological importance is crucial on a global scale and the agricultural potential so promising?

The Amazon is more than just a forest. It is also a place to live, a source of employment and income for millions of people, and an international food and energy industry. Promoting sustainable forms of development goes beyond the sole repressive fight against deforestation. It is a matter of building, with local stakeholders, production alternatives that respect the environment and of organizing the active forces in the territory around this objective. Such an agrarian transition requires quality scientific production that is close to the actors, and training.

Animator and CIRAD correspondent : René Poccard-Chapuis (UMR Selmet) et Marion Chesnes (UR Forests and Societies)

Location: Brazil

Founding members : Embrapa Amazônia, Oriental , Museo Paraense Emîlio Goeldi: Environmental modelling, Universidade do Brasilia : Center for Sustainable Development (CSD), Universidade Federal do Para (UFPa) : Nûcleo de Ciências Agràrias e Desenvolvimento Rural (NCADR).

Website of the plateform: dP Amazonia website

Plateforms in which the unit participates

	Public Policy and Rural Development in Latin America (PP-AL)
	Mesoamerican Scientific Platform for Agroforestry - Agroforesta
	Producing and conserving in partnership in Southern Africa - (RP-PCP)
	Agroforestry systems in Central Africa - Agroforestry Cameroon
	Agro-sylvo-pastoral systems in West Africa - ASAP