INRA - Impacts

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Impacts

Impacts

Our objectives, research, and results affect daily life in several ways, namely by influencing economics, environmental policies, health issues, politics, regional land use, and social concerns. INRA is engaged in:

© INRA	feeding France and the world	© INRA	predicting and fighting the effects of climate change	© INRA	ensuring access to healthy and sustainably produced foods	© INRA	Innovating in plant and animal selection

© INRA	reducing dependence on pesticides and fertilizers	© INRA	preventing zoonoses	© INRA	saving species (e.g., elms, plane trees, deer)	© INRA	preserving genetic biodiversity (e.g., of grapevines, wheat, trout, cattle)

Some "Success stories"

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Potato harvest on INRA's experimental farm in Ploudaniel. © Bertrand NICOLAS - Inra, NICOLAS Bertrand

News

19 Nov 2019

A healthier approach to potato farming

The potato is the number one non-grain food crop in the world. It is attacked by a plethora of pathogens, which farmers have been managing with an arsenal of pesticides for over 70 years. However, that arsenal is ever shrinking. For 30 years, INRA's "potato team” has dedicated itself heart and soul to developing alternative strategies, such as the use of resistant varieties, pathogen detection tools, and innovative farming systems. This research has resulted in tangible benefits for human health and the environment. The team’s work has earned its members the 2019 INRA Science with an Impact Award.

The Prion Task Force at the 13th INRA Awards ceremony © BOURRIOUX Guillaume

News

05 Dec 2018

In pursuit of prions

The "Prion Task Force" has received the INRA Science with an Impact Award for 2018. Created 20 years ago, the task force carries out research on transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), of which the best-known example is mad cow disease. Its work has helped improve food security, protect human health, and save farms and livestock industries from the menace of TSEs.

The Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology (LBE) in Narbonne, at the INRA Occitanie-Montpellier centre, is the 2017 winner of the Science with an Impact Award © NICOLAS Bertrand

News

20 Nov 2017

Waste not, want not

The Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology (LBE) in Narbonne, at the INRA Occitanie-Montpellier centre, is the 2017 winner of the Science with an Impact Award. This award recognises the lab’s trailblazing research in methane production, which has led to innovation in widespread use in industry.

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Magazines

03 Jul 2014

The ASIRPA project report, which describes a methodology for quantifying the impacts of INRA research, was published at the end of June 2014. © INRA

INRA releases first ASIRPA project results

On 3 July 2014, François Houllier, President of INRA and AllEnvi, presented the findings of the ASIRPA project at a symposium attended by the French Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technological Assessment (OPECST).

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Reports

Impacts of research on society. © INRA, V. GAVALDA based on drawing © antoniobanderas

The impacts of INRA’s research on society

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