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Edible Insects in Sustainable Food Systems

Just published

11 Oct 2018

Edible Insects in Sustainable Food Systems

Global food security

This book takes a multi-disciplinary approach to analyzing how insects contribute to food systems around the world. It includes unique research on edible insects from Asia, Europe, North America and Africa and features state-of-the-art research on farmed, semi-cultivated and wild insect species.

Honeybee foraging © Yves Le Conte

News

20 Sep 2018

Pesticide mixtures slow down bees' foraging activity

Agroecology

INRA researchers and their partners have identified a new sublethal effect of pesticide mixtures on bees, characterized by perturbations of their energy metabolism and a decline in performance. Their research was recently published in Science of the Total Environment. 

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?

Climate Change

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

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Sustainable agriculture - Agricultural systems

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!

Animal biology - Results, Innovations, Transfer

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.

Genetics - Plant health - Plant biology

29 Jan 2016

Film d'animation du projet Road Movie. © INRA

Plants take up their arms

At INRA Angers-Nantes, IRHS researchers are studying plant mechanisms of resistance against disease, and in particular against apple scab.

Global warming - Natural resources and environments - Climate Change - 2010s

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.

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Reports
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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