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October 2011

Ministry of Agriculture and Environment. Institution for Agricultural Research and Higher Education (IRESA). National Agricultural Research System In Tunisia. October 2011. Situation : North Africa /East Area :163,610 sq. km Population :11 millions

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October 2011

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  1. Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Institution for Agricultural Research and Higher Education (IRESA) National Agricultural Research System In Tunisia October 2011

  2. Situation :North Africa /East • Area :163,610 sq. km • Population :11 millions • Natural resources :Crude oil, phosphate, iron ore, lead, zinc, salt Tunisia

  3. Tunisia Agriculture in brief • Participation at: - Growth Domestic Product (GDP): 13 % • - Exportations: an average of 10% • - Employment : 16 % • Contribution of 14 % in the investments • 516.000 farms (87 % less than 20 hectares) • Agricultural area: 9 millions hectares • cultivable land : 5 millions hectares • (cereals 34 %; oleiculture 33 %; horticulture 33 %) • forests and pastures:more than 4 millions hectares • 66 % of cultivable area receives less than 400 mm per year • Irrigable area: 400.000 hectares

  4. Value of agricultural exportations in 2009 : 1849.5MD Horticultural products Agrumes Cereals derivates Olive oil Dates Sea products

  5. Value of agricultural importations in 2009: 2432.7MD Sea products Sugar Vegetable oils Cereals

  6. Historic of IRESA • IRESA was established in 1990 as a part of the World bank supported Agricultural Research and Extension Project (PRVA). • IRESA’s mandate includes: • - Promoting agricultural research in Tunisia through the coordination of research, higher education and extension. • Disseminating agricultural knowledge. • Setting, funding and monitoring national research programs. • Coordinating and evaluating of the national agricultural research programs.

  7. Presentation of I. R. E. S. A • 6 Research Institutes • 4 Regional Research Centers • - 2 Regional branches • - 11 Higher Education Institutes • - 20 experimental stations • - 15 incubators for creating spin off • 28 Research Laboratories • 15 Research units • - 270 Researchers (full time) • 380 Scientists • U.Y. 2010/2011: 413 Doctorates and 933 Masters • For more details, please consult the IRESA’s Web site: www.iresa.agrinet.tn, www.facebook.com/iresa.tunisie

  8. Plan for Agricultural Research The priorities items established by Tunisia are: • Food security • Preservation and sustainable management of natural resources (water, soil, erosion,…) • Development of crops of high added value for exportation • Management of abundance of some products • Quality of agricultural products (vegetables and animals)

  9. Priorities 13 priority domains were identified (June 2010) • Cereals, legumes and forages • Natural resources (water, soil, forestry) and climate change • Breeding & animal feeding • Tree crop productions • Horticultural crops & cultures protégées • Aridology & Oasian agriculture • Agricultural mechanization • Fishing and fish farming • Animal health • Organic agriculture • Post harvest: transformation and industrialisation of agricultural products • Plant protection & Quality of agricultural products • Socio economy aspects and agricultural policies • Priorities are set up by Commissions of Programmation, Evaluation of Research in Agriculture (CPERAs) formed by researchers, scientists, representatives of development and farmers.

  10. Research for development • Agreements with profession in order to respond to a specific demand: 14 projects were dedicated to quality of agricultural products. • Agreements with regional representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture involved in development, dealing with increasing productivity and soil & water management.

  11. Evaluation Three levels of evaluation depending on the nature of research program: * Institution level: the evaluation is done by the scientific council * IRESA level: 13 committees of programming and evaluation of research programs (CPERA) assure the evaluation * Laboratories and units programs are evaluated by CPERAs and by the National Committee of Evaluation of Research Activities (CNEAR) which is under the authority of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (MERS).

  12. Research Funding • Funding of programs involved many sources : • Ministry of Agriculture and environment (equipments , infrastructure, human resources,…) • Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (current budget for Laboratories and Units of Research, VRR, PIRD) • Partnership: offices, CRDA (“Commissariat Régional de Développement Agricole”), GIP (Groupements Interprofessionnels) • International Cooperation: • Bilateral Cooperation with Korea, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Greece,… • Multilateral Cooperation: European Union (PCRD,…)… • International organizations (FAO, CIHEAM, ICARDA, OADA, ACSAD, FIDA, AIEA, …),

  13. The new Strategy • An evaluation of the first decennial strategy (1999-2008) was undertaken by the National Committee of Evaluation of Research Activities (CNEAR). • A new decennial plan was prepared. • It includes new programs such as: • Organic agriculture • Climate change • Post harvest • Plant protection • Quality of agricultural products • Socio economy aspects & agricultural policies.

  14. ICT in Tunisia Internet users : 4.000 000 Subscribers : 600.000 ( broadband : 518.000) Official email address : 700.000 Domain names (.tn) : 16.800 Web sites : 12.000 Internet service providers (ISP) : 12 3G Providers : 2

  15.                IP Backbone  Internet Service Provider  IRESA Tunisian Agency of Internet Eumedconnect Router project ATI Kasbah IRESA 30, rue Alain Savary Tunis 100 M F.O International 100 M National FO 30 Mb. ESIATunis ENMVet. IRVT ISEPBG Soukra ISPA Bizerte ESA Mograne ISPTabarka CNVZooSanitaire CRDAs Ben Arous, Manouba, Tunis, Ariana BIRH Main PoP IRESA Kasbah PoP IRESA Kasbah (Ancienne Salle ATI) 1 Gb PoP IRESA Kairouan F.O 1Gb VRF VRF Backbone Tunisie Télécom PoP IRESA Médenine PoP IRESA Gafsa VRF VRF PoP IRESA Sfax PoP IRESA Sousse PoP IRESA Nabeul PoP IRESA Béja WANs WANs LANs Researh institutes , higher education Institutes, regional research center, CRDA…. 9 PoPs : Point of presence October 2011.

  16. In IRESA : Division in charge of ICT (DTTIC: Division of information technology and communication) • 5 engineers: 3 in computer network and 2  in computer programming • 4 analysts in computer programming • 1 technician in multimedia • NIFU is located within this Division. • IRESA is an Internet Service Provider (ISP ) for the agriculture sector : • Web and information system hosting, • E-mail provider, • Security, • Management of the agricultural national network, • Development and management of RAIS.

  17. Library information systems : IRESA use Horizon for virtual library improve the library information systems such as: - Cataloging and classification, - Circulation, - Provision, - Procurement. The library of the agricultural scientific resources allows reaching electronic resources with knowing: - the national and foreign collective catalogs in the agricultural field - bibliographical databases - dictionaries and thesaurus (agrovoc) - electronic resources 1000 (thesis, memories...) full text . This library is actually online www.birsa.agrinet.tn

  18. Distance learning This experience started in 2004 with Water resources courses for technician degree. Many efforts were deployed in capacity building for teachers in digital pedagogy. Other specialties: (field crops, animal health) Number of courses: 40 This distance learning system is composed of the following items: courses, discussion forum, chat, agenda and mail. Learners having had their diplomas: 500 We plan to adopt scorm Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) : collection of standards

  19. Existing mechanisms of accessing and exchanging information: All scientific and technical staff of the NARS has Internet access from their office and E-mail. ( LAN and wifi) All institutes have electronic library subscriptions such as American Chemical Society, Blackwell, Elsevier, IEEE, Informs, Proquest and Thomson Scientific. All of their scientific and technical staff and students have access to these libraries. The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) (an easy-to-use database that gives users immediate access to full-text PDF articles) is used over the local area network and is updated every year.

  20. Available infrastructure and financial facilities: All institutes are connected to the Internet and intranet by the national agricultural network (AGRINET) which is managed by the IRESA and they are also connected to EUMEDCONNECT (The EUMEDCONNECT network serves the research and education communities of the Mediterranean region, and is linked to the pan-European GÉANT2 network) Each institute is connected with a leased line and at least 1 Mbps of bandwidth or fiber optic. Number of scientific computing servers: 2 Ratio of Number of computers with Number of Scientific Staff: 1

  21. Development of strategies From 2008, IRESA organized a steering committee in ICT and a steering and management committees for information security. These steering committees are headed by the president of IRESA. The NIFU is represented in these committees. At the national level, a study defined and adopted a national policy/strategy in ICT ( E-gov) ( benchmarking, policy/strategy, roadmap) IRESA participated in the evaluation and validation of this study. The field of environment adopted his strategy in 2011.

  22. IRESA is member of : FARA ARIMNET ( portal, database, communication tools) developed by IRESA AARINENA

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