Institut de Recherche pour le développement - http://www.ird.fr/
The IRD is a unique institution in the landscape of European research for development. Its task is to conduct research in the South, for the South, with the South.
Its researchers are working on issues of major global importance today: global warming, emerging diseases, biodiversity, access to water, migration, poverty, world hunger. The teaching and training they provide empowers and enables Southern scientific communities.