Over seventy authors from throughout IRD - scientists, heads of department, project officers and members of civil society - share their knowledge and skills in sustainable development research. ln these pages, their different views form an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral insight into sustainability science, and provide the reader with food ...
A la fois source d'informations et documents de réflexion, les fiches "Référence Science de la Durabilité" publiées par l'IRD offrent des éclairages sur la science de la durabilité. Ces documents trouvent leur origine dans des contextes divers : sur proposition ou demande de la gouvernance, à la suite d'interventions lors de réunions internes, dans...
Fulfilling both "Water and soil conservation" and "Integrated rural development" objectives, hillside reservoirsare very popular components of water and/or rural management strategies. In Central Tunisia, more than 800reservoirs have been built since the 1950s. These have been the subject of an abundant literature by both socialand physical scienti...
The Mediterranean region is characterized by intense rainfall events giving rise to devastating floods. In Maghreb countries such as Morocco, there is a strong need for forecasting systems to reduce the impacts of floods. The development of such a system in the case of ungauged catchments is complicated, but remote-sensing products could overcome t...
Remote sensing tools (RS) can contribute to a better understanding of the diversity of natural and semi-naturals habitats, their spatial distribution, and their conservation status. RS can also provide a generic set of derived indicators to support local to regional habitat monitoring. Here we propose a set of synthetic continuous textural indices ...
Traditional Mediterranean plant-based dishes could allow tackling malnutrition while preserving the cultural heritage. To determine the effect of the cooking method on mineral bioavailability, the content in minerals and chelators of Mloukhiya, a Mediterranean dish based on jute leaves (Corchorus olitorius) that contains also meat, was monitored du...
Dans l'objectif de la valorisation du patrimoine culinaire traditionnel et pour assurer la préservation du régime méditerranéen, le potentiel nutritionnel de deux plats traditionnels tunisiens (la Mloukhiya à base de légume-feuilles et la Bahthoula à base de légumineuses) a été étudié. Les effets des procédés culinaires (cuisson, trempage…) et de l...
