The Institut de Recherche pour le Développement or IRD () is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of
Higher Education and Research and
Foreign Affairs. It operates internationally from its headquarters in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
, and two metropolitan centres of Montpellier and Bondy.
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 world 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.
Organisation
The IRD's scientific activities are organised through five departments:
*Earth and Environment
*Living Resources
*Societies and Health
*Expertise and consulting
*Support and training
Associated people
A number of notable researchers are or have been associated with Institut de recherche pour le développement, including:
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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 work ...
- pediatric nutritionist
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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
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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 Pha ...
- botanist and agronomical engineer
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Jean-Philippe Chippaux Jean-Philippe may refer to:
* ''Jean-Philippe'' (film)
* Jean-Philippe (given name)
See also
*Jean Philippe
Jean Philippe Gargantiel (, 27 November 1930 – 7 January 2022) was a French singer who represented France at the Eurovision Song Co ...
- snakebite and tropical medicine expert
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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 enco ...
- virologist
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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
See also
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Bactris nancibaensis
''Bactris nancibaensis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is found only in French Guiana. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is the process by wh ...
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Serer people
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Mistrals
MISTRALS ("Integrated Mediterranean Studies at Regional and Local Scales") is a research program dedicated to the study of the Mediterranean basin and its surroundings, with the aim to "better understand the impact of global factors on this region ...
References
Official websiteVideos from Canal IRD Web TV
IRD on-line scientific library (37,000 documents for downloading)
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Government agencies of France
Research institutes in France
Organizations based in Marseille