Reports

Quick facts and key achievements to date

Established in 2007 with an initial endowment of €20M from French government and initial founders
€35 M complementary resources and pledges mobilized since inception
Charter members are four of the country's top institutions for development-oriented research and higher education in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
€14,5 M total funding commitment since inception, for more than 100 funded projects involving 175 Agropolis Fondation Fellows and 300 partners from 60 countries (more than 60% from the South and the Mediterranean)
Five major projects (€9M total) :
- Pl@ntNet, a collaborative database on Plants (crops, invasive species, weeds ...)
- ArCaD, Agropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity
- Biofis, Bioagressors and invasive species: from individual to population to species
- Rhizopolis, a federative project for plant root research
- Fabatropimed, Ecological services of legumes for nitrogen and phosphorus biogeochemical cycles and C sequestration in cereal cropping systems in Africa & the mediterranean basin

On-going partnerships and co-funding activities with the AWARD Programme (CGIAR), CAPES (Brazil), Fondazione Cariplo (Italy), and Inria (France)
Created the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Food and Agriculture
Sponsor of the 2010 and 2012 Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD)·
ISO 9001 accredited for its whole range of activities