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. Provided by Wikipedia