Valentin Pret

🚨#JustPublished "Farm resilience to climatic risk. A review" in @ASD_INRAE with @Cirad and @PPS_Wur More comprehensive assessments are needed to measure farm #resilience, especially for #smallholders. For this, we are proposing 6 guidelines #OpenAccess👉doi.org/10.1007/s13593…

Great work by PPS colleagues: Intensifying legumes with phosphorus fertiliser and inoculants in smallholder fields increases yields and reduces weed pressure, enabling greater resilience to weeding delays and more flexible farm management shorturl.at/SnHYu

🚨📢 #JustPublished by @Cirad @UZimbabwe et al. Our study led by @IllianaKwenda reveals that the benefits of #maize-cowpea #intercropping are maintained in conditions of high #water & #nitrogen stress in semi-arid #Zimbabwe. 👉shorturl.at/WVdtJ

Our paper examining how shocks affect the type of technologies adopted in agriculture is recently published in @_Food_Policy . We find interesting results and provide policy-relevant heterogeneity analysis. Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.food…

Another @RAIZ_project supported new publication: Nyawasha, R.W. et al. 2025. Drivers of soil organic carbon stocks at village scale in a sub-humid region of Zimbabwe. Catena 252, 108843. doi.org/10.1016/j.cate…

The @GEOCropMonitor February reports are out now! The Crop Monitor reports shows crop conditions around the world in both major exporting and food insecure countries. You can read the reports here👉cropmonitor.org

🚨📷#JustPublished by @CIMMYT @UZimbabwe & @Cirad in @_Food_Policy. We applied a quantile regression framework to understand what drives #mechanization by smallholders in #Zimbabwe and how it affects different #farm types. 👉shorturl.at/OCfne

It's official! @Enamyeluos94 successfully defended his PhD thesis. His knowledge, self-assurance, & fortitude were demonstrated throughout his PhD defense. We at @rp_pcp consider it an honor to have supported his academic endeavors. Best wishes & congratulations, Souleymane DIOP.

Three PhD positions opened with @WUR and the Food Security Intelligence program Data science focus on healthy diets, sustainable smallholder farming in Africa and justice and governance for food security shorturl.at/qQdxV shorturl.at/LWUAK shorturl.at/22x1B

🚨📷#JustPublished by @CIMMYT @Cirad @ICRISAT @BiovIntCIAT_eng & @ILRI. We applied an innovative method combining statistical typologies & stochastic frontier analysis to mixed #crop-#livestock systems in #Zimbabwe to target interventions. #OpenAccess 👉shorturl.at/pTmIx

⭐️Vous êtes à la recherche d'un stage en #geomatique #télédétection #statistiques?⭐️ @Cirad @AidaDirecteur propose un stage sur l'évaluation spatialisée de la précision des produits globaux d'occupation du sol en #Afrique SubSaharienne ➡️shorturl.at/OLrIe

We are looking for a PhD candidate to explore maize and sorghum comparative performances across sub-Saharan Africa, with the use of crop models: cirad.fr/content/downlo…

Was a great week at #ESA2024 congress at Rennes where i could present the first results from my #PhD! Nice to meet some people in real life for 1st time & catch up with old colleagues. Great discussions with scientists from all around the🌍@FARE_Reims @AidaDirecteur @RAIZ_project

@FBaudron crop model + agronomy 🤔

#crop modeller vs systems #agronomist

La prochaine #pandémie  ? Les animaux la vivent déjà. La #GrippeAviaire décime de nombreuses espèces @Cirad @Grease_Network @PREZODE_Intl @BcomingEU theconversation.com/la-prochaine-p…

#PhD alert. You have a MSc in e.g., #agronomy, #soil #science, etc & want to further your #education? #cassava seems like a fun crop to you & #Rwanda🇷🇼 is your dream for #field work? Apply for this great opportunity & join @CorbeelsM & I at @Cirad! 👉ur-aida.cirad.fr/en/actualites/…

An El Niño-linked drought has impacted Southern Africa through the end of 2023 & first four months of 2024. Several parts of the region have received half or less of their typical rainfall, parching crops during a critical growth period. @GEOCropMonitor 🔗earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152711/…

How effective are policies in reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture? ourworldindata.org/effective-poli…