BOOK. Institute of Research for Development: the search for a more sustainable world

This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir n°933, dated November 2024.

The Research Institute for Development (IRD) is 80 years old. And has come a long way since the colonial era. But the work intended to celebrate this anniversary does not return to this story. It's more about the present and the future.

A desirable future

Present through the testimony of researchers from the North and the South, retracing their collaboration to eradicate diseases, improve lifestyles, and promote sustainable agriculture. Future, by the definition of a desirable future where infant mortality, vector-borne diseases, poverty and water and energy shortages would have disappeared.

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Bring out quickly usable solutions

This “sustainability science” is emerging through an entire scientific movement of which the IRD is one of the flagship institutions. Researchers from the North and the South pool their skills to bring out quickly usable solutions for human development. Through their testimonies, a deep commitment to a better world can be discerned.

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Credit: IRD Editions

“Focales sud, research for a sustainable world“, IRD Éditions, 198 p., €28