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A new paradigm is needed in the forestry sector: resilience thinking, which favours adaptive management strategies to cope with uncertainty and keep options open, as opposed to stability thinking, which fixes a target objective and assumes minimum uncertainty.. © Inra, François Lefèvre

News

13 Sep 2018

Resilience thinking: a new paradigm for the forestry sector?

An interactive session at ESOF2018, with games, debates and votes, addressed the issue of forest resilience and adaptation to global change.

The Miombo woodlands during the pre-rain season © C. Ryan

Press release

13 Aug 2018

Satellite observations reveal secrets of dry tropical forest greening

In dry tropical forests, vegetation takes up water at the end of the wet season and stores it during the driest season of the year. This large amount of stored water enables trees to flush new leaves about one month before the next rainy season. This surprising phenomenon has been revealed for the first time using satellite observations, mainly in the African region of Miombo (around four times the surface area of France), in a study coordinated by the University of Copenhagen and INRA in collaboration with the CEA, CNRS, CNES and Bordeaux Science Agro.

A field of Farandole wheat. © INRA, WEBER Jean

Press release

24 Apr 2018

A clearer understanding of the impact of extreme climate events on wheat yields

France, the major bread-basket for Western Europe, experienced catastrophic yield losses in 2016. Scientists from INRA, CNRS and CEA¹ have shown that in 2016, and in other years, abnormally high temperatures in late autumn accentuated the negative effect on wheat production of excessive rainfall the next spring. These extreme climatic conditions – some of which are likely to recur in the future – raise questions regarding both agricultural production systems and the prediction of crop yields.

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Magazines

27 Nov 2015

4 per 1000 initiative: storing carbon in the soil for food security and climate. © INRA

Soils for food security and the climate

The "4 parts per 1000" initiative proposes to increase organic matter contents and encourage carbon sequestration in soils, through the application of appropriate farming and forestry practices.

12 Feb 2015

Quarry in Saône-et-Loire.. © INRA, PAILLARD Gérard

Symposium at the Salon International de l'Agriculture 2015: soils

The 68^th United Nations General Assembly declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. INRA thus devoted its symposium at the Salon International de l’Agriculture to "Soils: their services and uses".

05 Nov 2014

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Planting a revolution

François Tardieu, Research Director at the Joint Research Unit for Ecophysiology of Plants under Environmental Stress at INRA Montpellier, is the winner of the 2014 Agricultural Research Award for Scientific Excellence.

31 Jan 2013

PhénoArch

Film shot at INRA Montpellier where scientists have a unique experimental platform at their disposal.

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Reports

Bean crop using direct seeding under cover. Experiment in Ponta Grossa (Brazil). © INRA, INRA, Stéphane de Tourdonnet

Conservation agriculture: blazing a trail through research

Guyaflux: a TOWER for measuring the carbon flow. Experimental facility to measure the carbon stocks in the Guyanese forest and the CO2 balance between the forest and the atmosphere. © Ch. Maître

Environmental research infrastructure

L'Unité Expérimentale de Gotheron développe des programmes d'expérimentation-recherche sur les systèmes de production durable en ARBORICULTURE fruitière (abricotiers, pêchers, pommiers, poiriers). © MAITRE Christophe

Water and agriculture

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