CIRAD Jean Christophe Glaszmann FÓRUM AGRO-ALIMENTAR Plataforma Tecnológica da Macaronésia Funchal, July 9, 2015
Aug 17, 2015
CIRAD
Jean Christophe Glaszmann
FÓRUM AGRO-ALIMENTARPlataforma Tecnológica da MacaronésiaFunchal, July 9, 2015
INTA 26/11/2013INTA 26/11/2013
• Slight increase in the share of R&D expenditures• Increase of the share of project-based funding• A national agency for the evaluation of higher education and
research • Towards a greater autonomy and role for the universities• A national Investment in major programs and distributed
infrastructures
Global evolution of the
French higher education and research system
Agriculture at the heart of global issues
From 7 billion people needing to be fed today…
… to 9 billion by 2050
Population growth concentrated in the South, in large cities
Three means of meeting this challenge:
Producing more and better, onlimited areas
Changing food habits (waste and diet)
Facilitating market access, reducing price volatility
CIRAD worldwide
Réunion - Mayotte
West Indies-French Guiana
Ile de France
Languedoc-Roussillon
Continental Southeast Asia
Southeast Asian
islands
East and Southern Africa
Continental West Africa
Coastal West Africa
Central Africa
Madagascar
Brazil
Mediterranean
Latin America
12 regional offices in the French overseas regions and abroad A scientific hub in Montpellier
700 staff members based outside metropolitan FranceResearchers in 40 countriesCollaborations with 90 countries
CIRAD’s values
Openness
Quality research
Sharing
Commitment to development
Openness
Quality research
Sharing
Commitment to development
Very specific expertise
CIRAD generates knowledge and helps build capacity, in support of agricultural and rural development
With specific experience of tropical commodity chains
Fruit and vegetables Sugarcane Cocoa Coffee
Rice Cotton Banana and plantain Oil palm
Animal production Animal production Rubber Forest species
Decades of field research in the South
A unique scientific and technical database
Specific experience of ecosystems, farming practices and societal questions in the South
Recognized expertise in assessing specificsituations and analysing interactions between local and global processes
A wide range of situations and players
So as to understand the changes in farming systems better
So as to analyse the impact of rapid change and the subsequent risks: climate change, soil degradation, land grabbing, price instability, and so on
So as to foster innovation and propose appropriate public policies
One main operating principle:research in partnership
Working together to establish and implement priorities
Working in the field, in the South, where our partners are, in their laboratories
Building our partners’ institutional and scientific capacity
From vision to actionCIRAD’s six priority lines of research
1. Ecological intensification
2. Biomass energy and societies in the South
3. Safe, diversified food
4. Animal health and emerging diseases
5. Public policy, poverty and inequality
6. Agriculture, environment, nature and societies
More than More than 300 300 PhD students PhD students supervised each year, supervised each year, 60 %60 % of of them from the Souththem from the South
International Masters courses run with International Masters courses run with grandes écoles grandes écoles and universitiesand universities
Training the talents of the future:the need to link researchand higher education
800 800 researchers and researchers and technicians technicians received and trained received and trained each yeareach year
Research on the appropriate scale
Biological systems
Understanding biological systems, from molecule to ecosystem
Tropical production and processing systems
Analysing farming practices and farming system performance, from plot to farm level
Environments and societies
Supporting players in rural areas, from a local to a global scale
Three research fields
sixaxes
mandate – missions - strategy
Priority lines of research
Research departments
Joint research units
Bios:Four thematic pilars
Diversity analyses
Functional analysis of G*E interactions
Biological interactions
Ecological dynamics
35%
20%
20%
25%
sixaxes
mandate – missions - strategy
Two main impact pathways
crop improvement
management of sanitary risks
sixaxes
mandate – missions - strategy
Amélioration Génétiqueet Adaptation des Plantes
méditerranéennes et tropicales
amélioration génétique et adaptation des plantes méditerranéennes et tropicales
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Plant breeding for innovative cropping systems
innovation mobilizing a range of competences biological resources infrastructures technologies/methodologies partnerships, …
Plant breedingTransforming genetic diversity into adaptation to agriculture(s)
Projet scientifique étendard
Nouvelles infrastructurespour la conservation et l’analyse des ressources biologiques végétales
ProgrammeARCAD
Recherche(2010-2013)
ProgrammeARCAD Infrastructure
(201. ?)
Co-construction de la Communauté :
Le projet ARCADAgropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity
Un projet Scientifique, Un projet Immobilier
10M€3 M€
Régional +
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CVCV
CVCV
2016
Les CRB associés à AGAP : des outils au cœur de la diversité
Objectifs : Garantir la transparence et la traçabilité des ressources
biologiques utilisées dans les activités de recherches de nos clients.
Activités : Recueil, préparation, multiplication, mise en collection, conservation et diffusion de ressources biologiques.
à Montpellier et aux Antilles
associant UR ASTRO
et UMR AGAP
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élément du réseau des CRB
INRA
associant semences
cotonnier avec UR SCA
de Persyst
germplasmdiversity
°C
H2O
CO2
utilizationfood & non-food
qualityefficiency productivity ideotypes
Evolution
Domestication
modelplants
crop varieties
agro-eco-systems
biotic stresses
servicesperformance
durabilityagro-ecology
Mapping information
(QTLs, GWAS)
Knock-out mutants
Selection footprints
Expression studies
Plant breeding, genetic resources and modern biology
Cell dynamics
Architecture variation
Physiological variation
Genetic variation
Histo-cytological variation
Confluences…
There are scientific confluences
Plant species:an open list
Banana with the association of producers
in French West Indies
Sugarcane with eRcane (Tereos group) in
La Réunion
Yam tetraploid varieties with family producers in
Guadeloupe and Caribean
Dominique ThisJean-Marc LacapeFabrice VaroquauxPascal GantetThierry Simonneau
CultiVarFederative project, submitted to Agropolis fondation
March 2014 – April 2015
andDiade, BGPI, IPME, LEPSE, GAFL, Amap, LSTM, …
We need more breeders!!
What CultiVar is about
Strengthening our education system for training more high level plant breeders and breeding-science professionals
Implementing a broadened vision of plant breeding• a careful balance between biological disciplines• Cultivated Varieties (CultiVar) as multi-dimensional
objects for Science and Society
Mobilising researchers and frontier research into training and education
Cultivating student diversity and international partnerships
focus
UMRs Frontier Res.
Edu. Res.
FRAMsFRABs
seminars
Agropolis
Sibaghe Gaia
APIMET, BPT
Partn.
LMIs DPs …
ingredients
Academic Institutional members:
227 research institutes, universities, research departments
with over 28 000 researchers and staff in plant science
from 30 countries – 27 in Europe and 3 beyond
+ 3 100 Personal members
Science and Science Policy activities
Conferences, Workshops, Brainstorms Newsletter, Searchable databasePosition papersAcademia - industry - farmer alliance
ETP Plants for the FutureAcademic alliances: Initiative for Science in Europe and Global Plant Council Creating a Future for Plant Research in Europe
www.epsoweb.org
EPSO’s mission is to improve the impact and visibility of plant science in Europe. The association was founded in 2000. It discusses with the European Commission, Members of the European Parliament and national politicians recommendations on European and global science policy.
High interest from both sides, Europe AND DevCos•invitations, e.g. similar workshop for Near East/N-Africa
Working towards shared view for opportunities and partnerships - Begin to shape partnerships
Defining initial set of pilot initiatives / areas for initial collaboration in SSA:•Begin to develop 3 coordinated plant research initiatives:
• Cassava value chain• Underutilised fruits and vegetable crops• Maize and associated legumes
•To facilitate bi/multilateral partnerships for sust. intensification:*** Scientific collaboration *** Capacity development *** Participatory technology development & access
Developing white paper framework for partnership
CIRAD
Where and who we areWhat we do and how
Biological systems researchPlant breeding research
Higher educationEuropean scale
FÓRUM AGRO-ALIMENTARPlataforma Tecnológica da MacaronésiaFunchal, July 9, 2015
One major challenge for agronomical research
To ensure sustainable and equitable food security… (FAO 2010)• Producing food that is affordable, safe, nutritionally adequate for health,
and culturally satisfactory• While protecting biodiversity and ecosystems and optimizing the use of
natural resources…• Creating jobs, generating income and promoting rural development
… in the context of multiple transitions• Growing world population• Food and nutritional transitions• Dwindling natural resources• Increasing energy prices and decreasing availability of fossil carbon
Développement d’outils logiciels pour la gestion de la diversité sous assurance qualité (BRC-tools, AQ-Tools, Géné-PI,…)
• Gestion des collections• Traçabilité des échanges• Statut juridique des accessions• Catalogue en ligne sur notre serveur web.
Transfert de compétences et formations• Porteur de l’extension de la norme NF aux CRB animaux et végétaux.• Appui à la certification des autres CRB végétaux • Expertise auprès de nos partenaires (Togo, …)• Accompagnement et formation aux outils et procédures mis au points au
CRB-T :• Pour des structures diverses : Plate-forme, INRA, CHU, UMR,
Privés, …• 13 serveurs interconnectés hébergeant 36 sites partageant la même
logique de gestion sous assurance qualité
Le CRB-T est présent et actif dans la communauté des CRB végétaux, mais aussi animaux, humains et micro-
organismes.
Réalisations du CRB-T de Montpellier
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• Coordination des projets : « CARAMBA » (FEDER) et « Safe-PGR » (Outre-mers Européens) Cirad AGAP, BGPI Guadeloupe et Montpellier, Cirad PVBMT Réunion, INRA Bordeaux, Universités de Madère et des Açores
Optimisation du diagnostic viral pour l’assainissement, sécurisation pour la fourniture
Vers une caractérisation de la variation phénotypique somaclonale en vue
d’études épigénétiques ?
Développement d’outils logiciels pour la gestion de la diversité sous assurance qualité (OLGA)
• Applicatif web de gestion des descripteurs des ressources génétiques,en production sur 15 collections
Réalisations du CRB-PT Antilles
► Umber et al. (accepté) Molecular Plant Pathology
► http://collections.antilles.inra.fr/ ► intertrop.antilles.ira.fr/demo/ ► insectes.antilles.ira.fr
Recherches propres: impacts de la diversité virale dans les collections pour le diagnostic et l’assainissement ?
Projet Inter-TROP : Appel d’offres IBiSA 2010-2012• Coordination du projet réalisé avec les CRBs INRA et Cirad Guadeloupe,
Cirad Guyane, Cirad Réunion, IRD Montpellier et Réunion, Cirad Montpellier
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Activité : enrichissement, collecte, stockage, caractérisation • près de 800 populations naturelles, 1300 lignées fixées et de nombreux matériels
scientifiques• de nouvelles prospections ont été conduites en 2011 et 2012 en France et en Espagne• Introduction en 2012 de collections de référence des espèces M. truncatula, M. littoralis et M.
tornata du National Plant Germplasm System (USA)• Poursuite de la production de descendances
Système d’information : description, interopérabilité des bases de données • Les données du CRB Medicago truncatula ont été insérées dans le système national en 2012
(Site web : http://urgi.versailles.inra.fr/siregal/)• Site web local (http://www.montpellier.inra.fr/BRC-MTR/) comportant un module de commande
en ligne pour la partie la plus demandée des ressources génétiques conservées, à savoir les core-collections issues de la diversité naturelle.
Distribution à des laboratoires extérieurs privés ou publics, ouverture à des projets externes.
• Contribution au consortium international de reséquençage de la diversité naturelle et de détection de SNP (http://www.medicagohapmap.org/).
• Douze articles associant des membres du CRB pour leur contribution et expertise en matière de germplasm.
• Six contrats de recherche finançant la participation du CRB
Réalisations du CRB-Medicago
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Plant breeding, core
“Plant breeding, the art and science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics” focus
cropping systems
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Plant breeding, core
“Plant breeding, the art and science of changing the traits of plants in order to produce desired characteristics” focus
An original research organization
National public institution status, but a global mission
Targeted research for development
Based on 50 years’ experience in the field, and an original approach
ideotype
diversity/homogeneity
bio-technology
cooperation/alignment
ABS/property
locksocio-cultural technological
subsistencecrops
industrialcrops
Pertinence of the linear model?