The Institut National de Recherche en Agronomie (INRA) is among Europe’s top agricultural research institutes and the world’s centres for agricultural sciences. INRA’s scientists identify solutions for society’s major challenges in relation to food, agriculture and the environment, producing and disseminating scientific knowledge, elaborating national and European research policies, providing scientific expertise to public policymakers and private stakeholders, generating technological and social innovation, participating in educational training by and for research, fostering science-in-society debates, and facilitating open access to scientific data and publications.

INRA Montpellier is part of Montpellier University, 2018 winner of the Shanghai ranking of World Universities in Ecology.