1. Working together for tomorrow’s agriculture http://www.cirad.fr/en

2. Meeting the challenges of global issues CIRAD generates knowledge and helps building capacity, in support of agricultural and rural development With specific experience of tropical commodity chains From 7 billion people needing to be fed today… … to 9 billion by 2050 Population growth concentrated in the South, in large cities

3. Research on the appropriate scale Biological systems Understanding biological systems, from molecule to ecosystem Tropical production and processing systems Analysing farming practices and farming system performance, from plot to farm level Environments and societies Supporting players in rural areas, from a local to a global scale Three research fields

4. More than 300 PhD students supervised each year, 60 % of them from the South International Masters courses run with grandes écoles and universities Training the talents of the future: the need to link research and higher education 800 researchers and technicians received and trained each year