Duration: 2013-2015

The BioBio project, by reference to the Programme d’Excellence pour l’Enseignement et la Recherche au Sud (PEERS) of which it is an offshoot, aimed to strengthen the partnership between two senior researchers, one a teacher-researcher in the South, the other a researcher in the North, with a view to implementing an innovative structuring research-training project.

It involved sharing emerging concepts (ecological intensification, ecosystem services) and developing a multi-scale approach (from plot to landscape), to study biodiversity and its role in regulating crop pests.

It served to build skills in the South by training students in and through research, as part of the Masters in Sustainable management of Horticultural Agro-ecosystems (GEDAH) and the PhD in Horticulture and Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture (Hort-AUP) at the Faculty of Science and Technology, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar (FST-UCAD).

Leaders: Prof. K. Diarra (FST-UCAD) and Dr T. Brévault (CIRAD-BIOPASS).

Funding: AIRD /PEER.