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A brief overview | Missions and strategies | Organisation | Scientific expertise | Foresight | Advanced Studies |
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| Research organisations are constantly faced with societal issues arising from the fast pace of innovation and advances in knowledge, as well as ethical questions stemming from research practices. INRA and CIRAD have established a common advisory committee for ethics in agricultural research to address such ethical issues and take a central role in the debate between science and society. Its missions are to reflect, advise, raise awareness, and - if need be - alert. The committee studies ethical issues that may arise from research activities in and outside France in the areas of agriculture, food and nutrition, the environment, and sustainable development, especially in aspects touching on the link between science and society. nicolas.jpg) © Bertrand Nicolas, INRA
The committee handles only ethical issues, as questions of professional conduct fall under the remit of INRA and CIRAD management. It shall not express an opinion on specific projects or actions. Fourteen eminent members of society, French and foreign, were chosen to form the committee by virtue of their skills and their independence from the two establishments. In a show of transparency, the committee will publish its reports and opinions, to be circulated as widely as possible by INRA and CIRAD. It will also organise public discussions on the points it has raised, and encourage debate on ethical questions within the two establishments. The joint committee is a reflection of INRA and CIRAD's desire to work more closely together and draw up a common vision of the scientific challenges in agriculture and the management of living resources both here and abroad. For INRA, this new ethics committee comes after COMEPRA (the Ethics and Safety Committee on Agricultural Research Applications), common to INRA and IFREMER, which existed from 1998 to 2006, and which reflected on issues including plant GMOs, partnerships, expertise, animal cloning, the patentability of living organisms, and the direction of genetic progress. For CIRAD, it follows the ethics committee created in March 2001, and whose mandate ended in late 2005. This committee published opinions on evaluation, conditions for intervention in rural societies found in Southern countries, training, and GMOs. .................................................................. Composition of the INRA-CIRAD Common Advisory Committee for Ethics in agricultural research: - Louis Schweitzer, president of the French High Authority for the Fight against Discrimination and for Equality (Halde).
- Charles Babinet, developmental biologist, honorary research director, Institut Pasteur - Fifi Benaboud, political scientist, coordinator of the Transmed programme, North-South Centre of the Council of Europe. - Soraya Duboc, food engineer - Jean-Michel Besnier, philosopher, professor at Université Paris VI - René Blanchet, geologist, professor at the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis - Gilles Boeuf, professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, president of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle - Marcel Bursztyn, socio-economist, director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasilia - Claude Chéreau, historian, former ambassador at the FAO - Didier Fassin, anthropologist, doctor and sociologist; professor at Paris XIII and director of studies at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) - Guy Paillotin, permanent secretary of the French Academy of Agriculture - Gérard Toulouse, agrégé in science, research director, laboratory of Theoretical Physics at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) - Dominique Vermersch, agronomist, professor of Public Economics and Ethics at Agrocampus Rennes - Heinz Wismann, philosopher and philologist, professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Each member's mandate lasts four years, renewable only once. ............................................................ To learn more, visit http://www.international.inra.fr/the_institute/organisation/ethics
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