The Research Institute for 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
Foreign Affairs
''Foreign Affairs'' is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and ...
. It operates internationally from its headquarters in
Marseille, 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 - 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
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- 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 encom ...
- virologist
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Michel Luc - 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
The Serer people are a West African ethnoreligious group.
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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