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food aid

Better targeting of food aid to vulnerable people

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Food security for refugee populations and uncertainties about future UN food aid budgets can only be reconciled through well-targeted, accurate and effective food aid. INRA researchers and their colleagues propose to simultaneously take into account individual data and data relating to the food security of refugee populations.

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Inra Research

L’Inra dresse un premier bilan de ses programmes innovants

Dès 2010, l’Inra met en place un nouvel outil de programmation : la conception de programmes interdisciplinaires, construits de façon transversale, pour répondre aux défis complexes se posant à l’échelle de la planète dans le contexte du changement climatique, comme assurer la sécurité alimentaire mondiale et nutritionnelle, ou développer des

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wine and cheese

The secret of wine-cheese combinations discovered thanks to an innovative sensory analysis

Chèvres frais avec des vins blancs secs de la Loire, Saint-Nectaire avec un vieux Bourgogne ou un vieux Bordeaux ? Accorder vins et fromages, tout un programme ! A la faveur de la méthode d’analyse sensorielle dite de la Dominance temporelle des sensations, adaptée à l’évaluation d’associations vin-fromage, des chercheurs de l’Inra

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marine algae

Seaweed to reduce the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry

Dans le cadre d’un partenariat avec le groupe Olmix, des chercheurs de l’Inra ont montré qu’un composé extrait d’algues vertes inhibe in vitro la croissance de bactéries pathogènes et stimule la production de médiateurs de l’immunité par des cellules épithéliales intestinales. Une telle préparation pourrait être utilisée dans l’alimentation des

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sperm cells in vitro

In vitro sperm: is it serious?

Researchers at the startup Kallistem announced last week that they have succeeded in obtaining sperm from tissue taken from the bodies of infertile men wishing to have a biological child. Sperm manufactured in vitro? The announcement caused a great deal of media noise, immediately generating enthusiasm and controversy.

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sciences

INRA's Participatory Sciences Mission

A mission on participatory sciences has been entrusted by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research to François Houllier, CEO of INRA and President of the National Research Alliance for the Environment (AllEnvi) in order to promote its development. By the end of the year, he will propose to

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Back to the future through ina

Here's a little gift to start off this new year: images from the INA on the previous generations' vision of their future (1947). An anticipation of the new technologies so close to today's reality: television, internet, smartphone,... they had thought of everything. http://www.ina.fr/contenus-editoriaux/articles-editoriaux/retour-vers-le-futur ©ina.fr

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