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INRA Scientific Expertise

INRA scientific expertise consists in providing the best available knowledge in response to a request made by policy-makers, in order to ensure that the decision choices will be based on sound and updated science. In-house and external scientists are mobilized to analyze international data dealing with the issues of expertise. The recent legislation about public research which puts the expertise as a mission for public research has led INRA to formalize its practise of expertise in a charter.

Scientific advice, a mission for INRA

INRA's scientific expert reports:

• Herbicide-tolerant plant varieties (2011). At the request of the French Ministries of Agriculture and Ecology (8-page synopsis available in English)
   
• Dietary behaviours: what are the determinants? What actions should be launched, for what impact? (2010). At the request of the French Ministry of Agriculture (65-page summary available in English).
   
• Pain in farm animals (2009). At the request of the French Ministry of Agriculture (8-page synopsis available in English).
   
• Agriculture and biodiversity (2008). At the request of the French Ministries of Agriculture and Ecology (113-page summary available in English).
   
• Fruit and vegetables: stakes and determinants for consumption (2007). At the request of the French Ministry of Agriculture.
   
• Drought and agriculture: adapting agriculture to a risk of recurring water stress in the context of climate change. (2006) At the request of the French Ministry of Agriculture.
   
• Pesticides, agriculture and the environment: reducing the use of pesticides and limiting their environmental impact (in collaboration with Cemagref) (2005). At the request of the Ministries of Agriculture and Ecology (60-page summary available in English).
   
• Mitigation of the greenhouse effect: increasing carbon stocks in French agricultural soils? (2002). At the request of the French Ministry for Ecology and Sustainable Development (36-page synthesis available in English).
   
  

Written by :  Claire Sabbagh, Delegation for Scientific Expertise, Foresight and Advanced Studies
Label for the news :  Topic
Date for the news :  2011.03.08
Date of creation : 18/02/2009
Date of last update : 13/01/2012

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Scientific expertise

• Scientific advice

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Foresight

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