July 15, 2014 at 04:53PM Global food security: CIRAD and INRA suggest innovative lines of research

By the end of the century, food security will be affected by several factors: population growth, climate change, economic unequalities, natural resource shortages, etc. This issue is therefore a major challenge for research, which is why CIRAD and INRA have joined forces to conduct joint, long-term programmes framed by a metaprogramme. The two organizations will be addressing novel issues, at the interface between between more conventional lines of research in this field. The metaprogramme, called GloFoodS (Transitions to Global Food Security), was launched in Montpellier in June 2014.

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