A look back at scientific news in 2020

Event 22 December 2020
A selection of scientific news from ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â and its partners in 2020, a far from ordinary year
Aerial view of ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â's Paracou station in French Guiana © A. Dourdain, ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â

The Covid-19 crisis was centre stage

MOOD | Dealing with emerging diseases: rethinking how we monitor global health

Covid-19 | ZooCov, a new project to prevent coronavirus transmission from wildlife to humans

One Health: integrating ecosystem health to boost operational potential

Covid-19 and food security | How African agriculture could hold its own in the face of the crisis

Development

TerrAmaz: a new partnership to reconcile the fight against deforestation with development in the Amazon

Cocoa agroforestry systems in Africa - the art of reconciling sustainable production and ecological services

IIABA: accelerating the development of organic agriculture in Africa

Projects

FAIR | The FAIR project is banking on agroecology to boost the resilience of producers in the Sahel

ASSET: towards more sustainable agrifood systems in Southeast Asia

LIDISKI: improving the livelihoods of smallholder livestock farmers in Nigeria

BIOSTAR: supplying sustainable bioenergy to food sector SMEs in the Sahel

Expertise

CoFor-AGB: an exceptional dataset to study carbon stocks in dense rainforests in Africa

Artificial intelligence could predict plant behaviour in the face of climate change

Innovation

"Pointe d’Or", a new 100% organic banana variety by ÁùºÏ²Êͼ¿â

Releasing sterile mosquitoes using commercial drones

Rift Valley fever: a new rapid detection test

See also