Results & impact 13 December 2021
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Natural rubber is the leading biosourced elastomer. It accounts for 48% of the global elastomer market. It is mostly (80%) produced by family farms of between 0.5 and 10 hectares, mainly in Asia. CIRAD is working to improve smallholder rubber growing, particularly by adapting it to climate change, and helping players in the value chain produce more while preserving the environment.
Books and documents
- Sustainable Development and Tropical Agri-chains, Estelle Biénabe, Alain Rival, Denis Loeillet (ed.), Springer, 2017
- Economics and ecology of diversification: The case of tropical tree crops, François Ruf, Götz Schroth (ed.), Springer, 2015
- Une histoire des plantes coloniales, du cacao à la vanille, Serge Volper, Quæ, 2011.
Scientific publications
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Science at work 13 September 2021
For a sustainable and resilient rubber sector in Southeast Asia
Institutional news 15 June 2020
AFD and CIRAD commit to develop sustainable management of large agricultural and forestry plantations in four ASEAN countries
See also
Coffee
Returning to ecologically viable systems and boosting the profitability of agroforestry systems that favour smallholders in more than 40 countries.
Sugarcane
Building the sugarcane sector of the future by helping producers make the agroecological transition.
Coconut
Revitalizing coconut, a plant with a thousand uses: knowing and making better use of its genetic diversity and ensuring sustainability, from production to processing.