热博体育

热博体育 works with its partners in the agricultural sector and the help of the local authorities in Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana, and French government services and the EU, to boost the region's scientific influence in the fields of agriculture (banana, sugarcane, pineapple, citrus fruits and diversification sectors), health and the environment.

Its research helps the territories concerned to respond to issues such as food security, climate change, conservation, sustainable development and agricultural employment.

Four research topics

To this end, its operations focus on four main topics:

• Agroecological transitions for sustainable, local food systems:
  Global change (climate, health, globalized markets, etc.), means we need to invent ecological ways of producing and using agricultural products, within profitable systems that safeguard environmental and consumer health.
• Tropical crop genetic resource preservation, characterization and promotion:
  By managing and making use of food crop biological resource centres (BRCs), 热博体育 can develop and assess hybrid varieties more resilient to pests and disease and environmental constraints, and roll them out within agroecological cropping systems.
• Emerging diseases and global health, an integrated approach to plant, animal, human and ecosystem health: Mopnitoring, preventing and controlling diseases means understanding a set of complex interactions (human diseases and wildlife reservoirs, agricultural practices and food chains, etc.). The aim is to address ecosystem protection, agricultural practices and veterinary and human health at the same time.
• Tropical rainforest ecology and forest resource use:
  By characterizing and modelling forest dynamics and the ecosystem services those forests provide, we aim to strike compromises in order to manage forest resources sustainably.

Active agricultural science cooperation in the Caribbean

The main regional networks and projects led by 热博体育 in the Caribbean centre on the One Health approach (animal, plant and human health) and agroecology (as the environmental component of One Health). Livestock production and fruit, market garden and food (roots and tubers and plantain banana) crops are the target fields. This scientific and technical cooperation, which 热博体育 leads on a Caribbean-wide scale from the local French departments and regions, was prompted by demand from our French, European and regional partners. It also concerns South America, involving 热博体育 researchers based there and in French Guiana.

Aims:

• To foster scientific and technical exchanges by associating agricultural players
• To conduct training and build capacity
• To implement joint research programmes
• To promote and roll out project results throughout the sub-region

Example of regional cooperation projects:

Co-building knowledge and consolidating quality markets for the products of the socio-biodiversity in the Amazon

The project is helping players in the açai (Euterpe oleracea Mart.) supply chain to promote this specific resource and associated local know-how, develop agroecological practices and consolidate quality markets, to drive an innovative economic dynamic.