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Cover of Big Data for the Greater Good

Just published

08 Oct 2019

Big Data for the Greater Good

The explosive growth of data and advances in Big Data analytics have created a new frontier for innovation, competition, productivity, and well-being in almost every sector of our society, as well as a source of immense economic and societal value.

Sex Control in Aquaculture

Just published

20 Sep 2019

Sex Control in Aquaculture

This book is a comprehensive resource for understanding the biological rationale, scientific principles and real-world practices in the field of sex control in aquaculture.

Agroecological Transitions: from Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

Just published

19 Sep 2019

Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design

Agroecology

This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to the theoretical and practical aspects of the agroecological transition. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France.

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22 Jul 2019

Philippe Mauguin at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie for the 2nd World Microbiome Day. © INRA

The 2nd World Microbiome Day celebrated at the Cité des Sciences

Last June 27th 2019, on the occasion of the World Microbiome Day, Philippe Sansonetti, Joël Doré and Claude Vincent, in the name of the Microbiome Inter Academic Group (IAG) as well as Philippe Mauguin, President of INRA, organised at La Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, an event delivering an up-to-date vision of the role of the gut microbiome in nutrition and health. On this occasion, a documentary on these bacteria which we host and which are beneficial to our health, entitled “Les fabuleux pouvoirs du ventre’’ was presented en avant-première of its release by the television channel ARTE in the fall.

Agricultural systems

22 Jan 2019

Thierry Beauvais, a farmer in the Nièvre region of France, who has adopted soil conservation agriculture methods. © Bertrand NICOLAS - Inra, NICOLAS Bertrand

A pioneer in soil conservation agriculture: a taste for innovation

Thierry Beauvais is a farmer who in 2015 decided to adopt soil conservation agriculture methods, involving no tillage and with permanent cover crops. This system that has led him to innovate constantly, working with research scientists from INRA.

25 Sep 2018

Aromatic and microbiological signature of natural grasslands © Christophe Maitre

Aromatic and microbiological signature of natural grasslands

Multiple studies carried out at INRA Auvergne Rhône-Alpes have demonstrated that there is such a thing as a “grazing effect” on the sensory properties and quality of milk, cheese, butter and meat. Due to progress in microbiological analysis tools, research now explores the impact of grassland plant diversity on the animal’s microbiota. As it turns out, the link to its area of origin is important for cheese as well!

17 Feb 2017

One Health symposium on 28 February 2017 at the International Agricultural Show. © INRA

Symposium "People, animals and environment: One Health"

60% of human infectious diseases are of animal origin, the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics affects humans as well as animals, the dispersion of contaminants in the environment has impacts on human health... Public health issues constitute important fields of research for INRA. The Institute is holding its scientific symposium at the Paris International Agricultural Show on 28 February on the subject "People, Animals, Environment: One Health". Follow the symposium live starting at 14h30 on this page and on twitter with the hashtag #OneHealth.

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Climate Change - Agroecology
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

Climate Change - Agroecology
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

Global food security
Covered market at Brive la Gaillarde. © INRA, Bertrand NICOLAS

Towards more sustainable food supplies

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