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Publication training: a successful videoconferencing experiment between Montpellier and Abidjan
16/04/2024
On April 16, a training session was held for doctoral students from Côte d'Ivoire, to help them perfect their project to publish the results of their thesis. Vincent Freycon and Jacques Tassin, assisted by Jean-François Trébuchon, ran this first session, which was highly successful from a technical point of view.
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Syntropic agriculture and agroforestry, a common proposal force
09/04/2024
To mark the release of his book AgriculTerre: refonder l'agriculture au service de tous, Jacques Tassin was a guest on the April 5 edition of C'est pas du vent, hosted by Anne-Cécile Bras on RFI.
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Agroforestry contributes to the well-being of rural populations in East Timor
02/04/2024
Many countries have integrated agroforestry into their sustainable development policies, particularly in Southeast Asia. In Timor-Leste, the national strategy for promoting agroforestry adopted a modern, technical approach focusing on crop rotation, intercropping and agro-sylvo-pastoralism. In so doing, it has largely overlooked the pre-existence, diversity and performance of traditional agroforestry systems (AFS). But what exactly are they? This is the question posed by Marguerite Cogné and Guillaume Lescuyer of the UPR Forêts et Sociétés.
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26/03/2024
The institutional predecessor of REDD+ is the Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP), which combines restrictions on forest access and conversion (negative interventions) with unconditional direct benefits (positive interventions) to compensate local stakeholders for income losses due to these restrictions. The idea behind REDD+ was to enhance the ICDP model with a different type of positive intervention: conditional direct benefits, often known as payments for environmental services or PES. How has this idea played out in reality? That's what a team of researchers including Colas Chervier from the UPR Forêts et Sociétés set out to find out.
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UR Forêts et Sociétés celebrates International Forest Day
19/03/2024
To mark International Forest Day, the Forests and Societies research unit takes stock of the state of tropical forests. It has prepared a short 2-minute video for the occasion.
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An experimental game to assess hunter participation in zoonosis surveillance
11/03/2024
Enhanced monitoring of zoonotic disease emergence in wild meat value chains is an essential element in preventing future health crises. Community hunters could play the role of front-line observers in surveillance systems for zoonotic pathogens in wildlife, reporting early signs of possible disease in the game they regularly observe and handle. With this in mind, an experimental game has been designed to help hunters detect zoonoses at an early stage.
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Ultraviolet light has no effect on the evolution of trees
04/03/2024
A study published in the journal PNAS reveals that the sun's UV rays are not the main driving force behind mutations in trees. Sylvain Schmitt is interviewed about this breakthrough in the France Culture morning show.
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Publication of issue 357 of Bois et Forêts des Tropiques magazine
27/02/2024
The December 2023 issue of the scientific and technical journal Bois et Forêts des Tropiques has just been published.
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A tropical forest ecologist joins UPR Forêts et Sociétés
20/02/2024
Adeline Fayolle was recruited to CIRAD on January 15, 2024 as a specialist in the ecology of Central African tropical forests.
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13/02/2024
The institutional predecessor of REDD+ is the Integrated Conservation and Development Project (ICDP), which combines restrictions on forest access and conversion (negative interventions) with unconditional direct benefits (positive interventions) to compensate local stakeholders for income losses due to these restrictions. The idea of REDD+ was to enhance the ICDP model with a different type of positive intervention: conditional direct benefits, often known as payments for environmental services or PES. How did this idea work out in practice?