Research Institute for Development
Last update: 26 July 2012
Through partnership-based research, training and innovation it is present in more than fifty countries in Africa, the Mediterranean basin, Latin America and the French overseas territories. Its projects are jointly run with partners and are based on an interdisciplinary approach. They address questions vital for Southern countries, such as tropical diseases and diseases of civilisation, the links between health and environment, climate change, water resources, food security, natural hazards, poverty, vulnerability and social inequality, migration and labour market trends.
IRD GRED: Governance Risk Environment & Development
The research unit is structured by 3 research axes: 1) Biodiversity conservation and dynamics of rural systems, 2) Governance and management of resources and territories, 3) Risk and sensitivity of societies and territories
IRD GRED is a SPOP Partner
Patrice Levang is a researcher at IRD in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Agro-economist by training, his research has mainly been focusing on the agricultural colonization –organized and spontaneous- of the forest margins of the Indonesian archipelago. Since October 2010 he relocated to Cameroon where he studies the livelihoods impacts of forest conversion. |
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SPOP contact Patrice Levang |
Last update: 26 July 2012