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Common Advisory Committee for Ethics in Agricultural Research
INRA and CIRAD have established a common advisory committee for ethics in agricultural research, through a decision of October 31, 2007. 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.
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The committee is placed alongside the presidents of CIRAD and INRA. It takes into account the specific missions and activities of CIRAD and INRA, particularly concerning research for the development of Southern countries.
The committee formulates opinions and recommendations. In a concern for transparency, the committee will publish its reports and opinions. CIRAD will circulate these documents and will also organise public discussions on the points raised. The committee handles only ethical issues, as questions of professional conduct fall under the remit of INRA and CIRAD management.
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 2007. For CIRAD, it follows on from the ethics committee created in March 2001, and whose mandate ended in late 2005.
Composition of the Ethics Committee
President
Louis Schweitzer, president of the French High Authority for the Fight against Discrimination and for Equality (Halde).
Members
- Fifi Benaboud, North-South Centre of the Council of Europe.
- Gilles Boeuf, 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
- Soraya Duboc, food engineer, Nestlé France
- Patrick Du Jardin, agronomist, dean of the University of Gembloux (Belgium)
- Catherine Larrere, professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I
- Jeanne-Marie Parly, anthropologist, university professor in economics
- Gérard Pascal, nutritionist, honorary research director
- Lazare Poamé, doctor in philosophy, professor at the University of Bouoaké (Ivory Coast) and President of the Advisory Committee for Bioethics of the Ivory Coast
- 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, professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
INRA contact: Pierre-Henri Duée, Pierre-Henri.Duee@versailles.inra.fr
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Written by :
Communications Department
Label for the news :
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Date for the news :
2011.03.08
Date of creation : 11/03/2008
Date of last update : 04/06/2010
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