In 2014, the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), France, Réunion Region council, and Cirad have jointly created  PRéRAD-OI that federates since fifty public institutions (ministries), research centers, agriculture extension and transfer institutions and training organizations within the five IOC member states (Madagascar, Mauritius, France-Reunion, Seychelles and the Union of Comoros). 

Meeting together numerous challenges...

The agricultural sector is playing a key role in the economy of the five IOC member states, particularly in terms of employment and activities. 

Like many regions in the world, this region faces to numerous constraints affecting this sector and exacerbated by insularity. These constraints are various: due to global changes (climate changes, loss of biodiversity, increased health risks, etc.) leading in particular to significant production losses and limiting inter-island trade in case of health crises; due to growing food demands regarding high demography; due to different standards and norms which limit trade...

Sharing common ambitions...

Our overall ambition is to: 

• Become a unique tool of regional agricultural cooperation in the Indian Ocean, helping to strengthen research, innovation and training, a triptych necessary for partnership synergies;

• Support the creation of a pole of excellence in agronomic research and innovation, particularly in the context of the Réunion's strategy of intelligent specialization (3S) focused on the bio-economy.

Specifically, through its networks and the projects they support, PRéRAD-OI provides solutions that meet all or part of these challenges through targeted research and delivers technological and non-technological innovations available to the economic world.

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It also has the ambition to develop its own transversal activities and products useful to public actors, producers, professional organizations and regional and national development agencies. The aim is to build bridges between these different communities.

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A platform for whom ...

• The platform's partners themselves, who actively take part in numerous regional projects supported by the platform, and  upgrade their expertise and their innovation capacities in this context but also ... 

• All the public and private stakeholders involved in the economic development of the region: decision-makers, farmers, professional organizations, development agencies, research and extension institutes.