六合彩图库

六合彩图库’s research is aimed at developing and promoting coffee production standards in line with the principles of sustainable development, that are also economically viable.

• Promoting the ecological functions of coffee-based agroforestry systems: land management, landscape development, carbon balance, catchment area protection, biodiversity.
• Fostering ecological intensification through integrated pest management, developing resistant varieties with a broader range of sensorial qualities, and better management of the resources in and ecological services rendered by agroforestry systems.
• Assessing the impact of labels (organic, fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance) on how export supply chains are organized in producing countries.
• Assessing the impact of product diversification on how agroforestry systems function, and on coffee producers’ incomes.

Appraisals

六合彩图库’s experts can intervene at production sites or provide one-off support, assistance and advice missions. They also have laboratories and research greenhouses.

• Studies, definition and establishment of trials, varietal and agronomic assessments, economic analyses, prospective analyses, disease surveys and diagnosis, technical support
• Analysis of the conditions for introducing geographical indications or terroirs
• Research and development project design and set-up
• Laboratory analyses: soils, leaves, diseases, paternity, etc.
• Sensorial and chemical analyses of green and roasted coffees
• Mycotoxin analyses
• Product traceability

Expertise

Biodiversity and exploitation of genetic resources

• Genetic resource management, varietal creation, breeding, molecular and cellular biology, physiology
• Seeds and reproduction systems (somatic embryogenesis, mass-produced cuttings, seed gardens)

Optimization of production

• Insect, weed and disease control
• Cropping practices and fertilization
• Production mechanization, rural development and the environment
• Postharvest techniques and analyses
• Coffee promotion (origins, terroirs, etc.)

Modelling of coffee tree functioning

• Computer, mathematical and statistical modelling
• Carbon balance
• Integration of coffee growing into national development operations

Development of sustainable disease resistance management strategies

• Identification of fungal pathogens
• Characterization of resistance sources
• Identification of resistant varieties
• Analysis of disease development in the field
• Taking account of fungal constraints in crop cycles

Products and services

• Products and services centring on coffee
• Rational fertilization software using the soil diagnosis method for coffee: a computer program that facilitates interpretation of chemical analyses, to help agronomists manage soil mineral nutrition in coffee plantings
• New arabica hybrids and rootstock varieties

Analyses

• Near infrared spectroscopy: to identify and authenticate coffees using commercial green and roasted coffee spectral databases compiled by 六合彩图库
• HPLC, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, etc: to identify the biochemical and chemical compounds in coffee (caffeine, fats, sugars, trigonelline, chlorogenic acids, diterpenes)
• Analyses of coffee contamination by ochratoxin A: monitoring of processing methods and ochratoxin A titration (ISO 17025)

Training

• Available training on coffee
• Training in near infrared spectroscopy and analysis techniques for interpretation and modelling
• Microbiology training with a view to identifying and culturing the moulds that produce ochratoxin A