Institut de recherche pour le développement
IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Research Institute for Development) - is a research organization based in France that is working with its partners in the South to address international development issues. Improving health, understanding social changes, and protecting the environment are the main pillars of its work towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). IRD work includes interdisciplinary scientific research, capacity building and nurturing innovation in more than fifty countries worldwide.
Country of registration
France
Network member number
N0031
Acronym
IRD
Address
<p>Le Sextant -44, bd de Dunkerque, CS 9009, F-13572 Marseille, Cedex 02, FRANCE</p>
Website
Relation to CTCN
Network Member
Enablers
Capacity building and training
Communication and awareness
Governance and planning
Type of organisation
Research and academic institution
Type of climate technology services
Capacity building
Knowledge management
Policy and planning
CTCN Keyword Matches
Accommodation
Accommodation for flooding
Adaptation planning
Advanced IT systems in the health sector
Afforestation
Agriculture
Agriculture and Forestry
Agro-forestry, Silviculture & Mixed farming
Agroforestry
Aquaculture management
Artificial lowering of glacial lakes
Basin level planning
Biodiversity management systems
Biomass carbon measurement and monitoring
Biotechnology for crop adaptation
Bushfire reduction and prescribed fire
Carbon stock measurement, monitoring and verification
Climate change monitoring
Climate change vulnerability assessment
Climate scenario development
Climate tolerant livestock
Coastal monitoring
Coastal setbacks
Coastal Zones
Coastal zoning
Community-based agricultural extension
Community-run early warning systems
Conservation tillage
Control of sand encroachment
Cover crop technology
Crop diversification and new varieties
Crop drying
Crop varieties with enhanced carbon sequestration
Cropland
Cropland management
Designing protected areas
Disaster preparedness plans
Disaster risk assessment tools
Disease surveillance systems
Domestic water treatment & management
Downscaling of climate model projections
Early Warning and Environmental Assesment
Early warning systems
Early Warning Systems Communication
Ecological buffer zones
Ecological corridors
Ecosystem monitoring
Ecosystem restoration and conservation plans
Embedding climate variability in hydropower design
Ex situ conservation and seed banks
Farmer field schools
Fertilizer management
Fisheries management
Flood forecasting systems
Flood hazard mapping
Flood proof wells
Flood warning systems
Flood-proof sanitary latrines
Floodplain zoning
Flow-through dam for flood control
Fodder crops
Fog harvesting
Forest fire control
Forest management techniques for mitigation
Forest user groups
Forestry
France
Fungal symbioses
Grassland management
Grazing land management
Greenhouse crop management
Groundwater extraction and monitoring
Groundwater management
Hazard mapping
Hazard mapping solutions
Human Health
Hydrological modelling
Hydropower
Improved cultivation techniques
Improved weather forecasting & hydrometeorological networks
Increasing crop resilience and productivity
Indigenous water storage structures
Integrated coastal zone management
Integrated nutrient management
Integrated planning
Integrated Water Resources Management
Integration of green spaces in planning
Interbasin transfers
Irrigation efficiency and information systems
Land management training
Landscape multifunctionality
Landslide and mudflow warning systems
Large hydropower
Light detection and ranging
Limiting land conversion & deforestation
Livestock feed optimisation
Livestock management
Long-lasting insecticidal bed nets
Malaria protection and prevention programs
Mangroves conservation and rehabilitation
Manure coverage
Marine and Fisheries
Marine protected areas
Monitoring of invasive species
Monitoring systems
Multi-purpose dams
N2O reduction
National Adaptation Plan
National adaptation programmes of action
National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plan
National plan
Natural wetlands and green infrastructure
Nutrient management
Open source climate data and tools
Organic agriculture
Pasture management
Pest and insect control
Point of use water treatment
Rainguard for rubber trees
Rainwater harvesting
Rainwater harvesting ex situ
Rapid diagnostic tests
Re-connecting rivers with floodplains
Reforestation
Remote sensing & GIS
Restoration and protection of coral reefs
Restoration of degraded lands
Restoration of organic soils
Retreat
Rice cultivation
River restoration
Riverine flood protection
Sandbags against flooding
Seasonal to interannual weather forecast
Sediment management
Seed, grain & food storage
Small hydropower
Soil carbon measurement
Soil management
Soil moisture conservation techniques
Soil moisture monitoring
Soilless agriculture
Source water protection
Sustainable fertilizers
Sustainable forest management
Technology Needs Assessment
Terracing
Terrestrial ecosystems management
Use of alternative water sources
Vector-borne diseases
Wastewater treatment plant
Water
Water augmentation (increasing capture and storage of surface run-off)
Water efficiency and demand management
Water pollution
Water resource assessment
Water Safety Plans
Water storage
Watershed conservation
Wetland management
Wetland restoration and rehabilitation
Wind breaks
Sector(s) of expertise
Agriculture
Early warning and Environmental assessment
Renewable energy
Forestry
Marine and Fisheries
Water
Active in
Burundi
Comoros
Djibouti
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Madagascar
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Rwanda
Seychelles
Somalia
South Sudan
Tanzania
Uganda
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Angola
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Congo - Brazzaville
Congo - Kinshasa
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
São Tomé & Príncipe
Algeria
Egypt
Libya
Morocco
Sudan
Tunisia
Botswana
Lesotho
Namibia
South Africa
Eswatini
Benin
Burkina Faso
Cape Verde
Côte d’Ivoire
Gambia
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Liberia
Mali
Mauritania
Niger
Nigeria
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Togo
Antigua & Barbuda
Barbados
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Grenada
Haiti
Jamaica
St. Kitts & Nevis
St. Lucia
Trinidad & Tobago
Belize
Costa Rica
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Suriname
Uruguay
Venezuela
Brunei
Cambodia
Indonesia
Laos
Malaysia
Myanmar (Burma)
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Vietnam
Austria
Belgium
France
Germany
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Switzerland