Research Institute for Development
The
French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, or ''
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement'' (
IRD), is a French science and technology establishment under the joint supervision of the French Ministries of
Higher Education and Research and
Foreign Affairs. It operates internationally from its headquarters in
Marseille, and two metropolitan centres of
Montpellier and
Bondy.
It was created as the ''
Office de la recherche scientifique et technique outre-mer'' or
ORSTOM (Overseas Scientific and Technical Research Office) in 1943.
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