Agropolis groups
research and higher education institutions in Montpellier and the Languedoc-Roussillon
region, in partnership with foreign and international institutions, regional
authorities and business, aiming at the economic and social development of Mediterranean
and tropical regions.
This scientific complex, with the vocation of an international
agricultural university, forms a huge potential of scientific and technical
expertise: 2,000 researchers, teachers and technicians in more than 200 research
units in Montpellier and the region and 500 scientists working in 60 countries.
Relaying on its centres of expertise, Agropolis International addresses
the major scientific, technological and economic challenges of agricultural
development:
• Agronomy and Mediterranean,
and tropical agricultural production sectors,
• Biotechnology and food technology,
• Biodiversity, natural resources and ecosystems,
• Water, environment and sustainable development,
• Rural development and societies,
• Genomics and plant and animal integrative biology,
• Food and health,
• Food quality and safety.
DURAS is a GFAR-Agropolis International project supported
by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs through its Priority Solidarity Fund
(PSF).
It aims to contribute to strengthening the involvement and enhancing the scientific
potential
of southern stakeholders in agricultural research for sustainable development
(ARSD).
This three-year project covers 49 countries from Africa, Near East and some
parts of Asia
that are listed in France’s Priority Solidarity Zone (PSZ).
DURAS Project Office
Cellule du Projet
Agropolis International
|
Avenue Agropolis
F-34394
Montpellier CEDEX 5
| duras@agropolis.fr
