In Southern Africa, the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), the National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and the Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (Cirad) have a joint office located in Pretoria. These three French public research organizations conduct, alongside their Southern African partners, multidisciplinary research of excellence in various scientific fields, on global development issues.
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27th July 2020Researchers build first AI tool capable of identifying individual birds
New research demonstrates for the first time that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to train computers to recognise individual birds, a task humans are unable to do. The research is published in the British Ecological Society journal Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
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9th July 2020Regional focus: Infectious diseases in the centre of the scientists’ target
Their names are Florian, Muriel, Andres, Veerle, Louis-Clément... Each morning, a community of IRD researchers working in Southern, Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean wakes up with a simple idea in mind: fighting communicable diseases which have significant effects on the region’s populations.
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30th July 2020South African-French agricultural research cooperation gets a boost with tripartite agreement between ARC, CIRAD and INRAE
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30th June 2020Citizen science: a great tool for socio-ecological studies
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16th June 2020[Meet a scientist] Moagabo Ragoasha: once an IRD scholarship holder, now an oceanographer in the SA-France network
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Short scientific stays in 2018
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International research laboratories
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International research networks
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Short scientific stays in 2018 |
International research laboratories |
International research networks |
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5 |
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