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INRA becomes a driving force for a European roadmap on pesticide-free agriculture in Berlin, 17 May 2019

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05 Jun 2019

INRA becomes a driving force for a European roadmap on pesticide-free agriculture

One of INRA’s priority goals is to spur research on pesticide-free agriculture, a major concern for French and European government authorities and citizens. INRA is currently leading a national research programme and driving efforts to create a European roadmap.

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13 Feb 2019

MicrobiomeSupport: A European Project Harmonising Microbiome Research Methods & Funding Worldwide

Current research efforts into the microbiome indicates that it harbours a large potential for human and planetary health. Yet the research field is still hampered due to contradictory results, unaligned methods and resource duplication.

Christian Huyghe introducing the workshop on chemical pesticide-free agriculture on 5 October 2018

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22 Oct 2018

Milestone on the road to chemical pesticide-free agriculture

In the framework of preparing Horizon Europe and to bring a common scientific perspective to the pivotal question of pesticide use in agriculture, INRA together with the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) and the Julius Kühn-Institut German Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (JKI) have elaborated a scoping paper. This document is intended to be the cornerstone for future discussions on this topic.

4 scientific priorities for Horizon Europe

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20 Jun 2018

Four INRA priorities for Horizon Europe

In 2021, the Horizon Europe programme will take over from the present research and innovation framework programme (Horizon 2020). This period represents therefore a key opportunity for INRA to present its scientific priorities in order to meet Sustainable Development Goals but also to make the Institute more attractive and to contribute to the development of major sites for agricultural research in France.

A herd of Lacaune dairy sheep at INRA’S La Fage experimental farm. The farm is located along the Causse du Larzac plateau and is an experimental site for dairy sheep for INRA’s Animal Genetics division.. © INRA, MAITRE Christophe

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23 Mar 2018

SMARTER H2020: breeding small ruminants to make raising livestock more sustainable

For the past two years, teams at INRA’s Occitanie-Toulouse centre have been working with stakeholders from around the world on the SMARTER project. Their proposal to study genetic selection to increase resilience and efficiency in small ruminants in their local environments has just been accepted for the European H2020 programme.

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