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MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

CORE Organic 1881 iPOPY, Innovative Public Organic food Procurement for Youth

Innovatiove Public Organic food Procurement for Youth(iPOPY) will contribute to an increased interaction between the organic food sector and public procurement of food, especially for young people. Increased consumption of organic food may positively effe ct people's health status, and most EU co...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

FORURENS: Reduced pesticide loads and risks in cropping system

Sustainable agriculture requires that soil, water and air quality are maintained. Pesticides have routinely been found in surface waters receiving agricultural runoff, particularly after heavy autumn/spring rainfall. There are practical ways to ensure tha t risks to the environment are minimized ...

Awarded: NOK 6.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Norsk produsert økologisk frukt til forbrukarane

AL Gartnerhallen og BAMA ynskjer å stette etterspurnaden etter økologisk frukt hjå sine kundar, og vi har sett oss som mål at minst 15 % av fruktomsettinga skal vere norskprodusert økologisk vare innan 2015, noko som er i tråd med regjeringa sitt mål. Der som Gartnerhallen/BAMA skal nå dette måle...

Awarded: NOK 5.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Metabolic Profiling of Rubus (Cloudberry and Raspberry): Effect of Inheritance and Environment on Phytochemicals Beneficial to Human Health

Raspberry (Rubus idaeus) and cloudberry (R. chamaemorus) are closely related species of the Rubus genus. Raspberry is economically important in several countries and many different varieties exist. Conversely there are only four commercial available varie ties of cloudberry. These have been selec...

Awarded: NOK 0.66 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Innlandet

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Reine skrotter (186562)

Reine dyr og god slaktehygiene er grunnleggende forutsetninger for alt arbeid med mattrygghet i kjøttkjeden. Utvalget som evaluerte håndteringen av E.coli-saken i 2006 peker på økt fokus på skitne slaktedyr som sin viktigste anbefaling til kjøttbransjen. E.coli-utbruddet illustrerer at det er s...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Utvikling av en ny og effektiv metode for kjønnssortering av rånesæd

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Awarded: NOK 0.43 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Innlandet

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Seeds for growth - Identification of transcriptional programs controlling seed growth and development from Arabidopsis to rice

The last decades have brought about a tremendous increase in our understanding in molecular mechansims of seed development. However, further progress appears to be haltered by three major constraints. First, seeds are compound structures that harbour many tissues and cell types. Currently, a rel...

Awarded: NOK 1.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Framtidens sunne og gode grønnsaker i varmretter

Målsettingen er å gi viktige tilskudd til folkehelsen ved å øke bruken av attraktive og næringsrike grønnsaker i ferdigretter. Andelen varmretter som spises utenfor hjemmet er sterkt økende fordi mange etterspør hurtige og enkle ferdigretter i en travel h verdag. I tillegg har det foregått en kra...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Vestfold

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Competetive Food Processing in Norway

Prosjektet KMB Competitive Food Processing in Norway startet opp i 2007, hvor hovedaktiviteten ble avsluttet i 2011. I perioden 2012-2014 er siste del av prosjektarbeidet blitt ferdigstilt i form av en doktorgradsavhandling. Etter syv år med intens forsk ning på superkjøling har state-of-the-art ...

Awarded: NOK 26.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Pre- and postharvest quality optimisation of organic vegetables that can stimulate an increased consumption

Norwegian consumers purchase less organic foods than consumers in most other European countries and important obstacles for consumption of organic vegetables are said to be quality, availability and price. The main objective of this project is to achieve better knowledge on how certain pre- and p...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Quality labelling and consumer responses in the Norwegian food sector

This is a three year cooperative KMB-project involving The Norwegian Agricultural Economic Research Institute (NILF). The Norwegian Food Centre (Matforsk), The Norwegian Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Fiskeriforskning) and The National i nstitute for consumer research (SIFO). It...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

New methods for organic raspberry production in polyethylene tunnels

Raspberries for the fresh market is a new and very profitable crop in Norway, and the production in polyethylene tunnels is increasing rapidly. In Norwegian organic production, the experience so far is that using tunnels is a prerequisite if growing for t he fresh market. The project focuses on t...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Innovation in small scale rural tourism: How to organise and co-operate for improvement and expansion?

The main objective of this project is to amend knowledge about how small scale rural tourism can expand through innovation and improved organisation. Research questions: 1: Identify how innovation is understood and interpreted among small scale rural tourism firms? What kind of innovation occ...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Reducing campylobacter jejuni in the food chain by modifying the upper digestive tract of slaughter chicken

The zoonotic pathogen C. jejuni is the leading cause of food-borne bacterial diarrhoeal disease throughout the world. C. jejuni readily colonize poultry and represents a major problem for the poultry industry and is a potential public health hazard throug h its high ability to survive in unproces...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Building scenarios as a tool for dialogue, business development and management in protected coastal areas(Samfin. FHF-prosj.nr. 193846/I10)

There is a rich knowledge both nationally and internationally on e.g. restructuring of primary industries, business development, conservation, and conflicts in coastal zone management. However, still development and conservation objectives are not met in many areas due to profound conflicts and...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Reasons for opting out of certified organic production in Norway

The Norwegian government aims to achieve an organically managed area of 10% by 2010, as well as a 15% organic share of the total food production and consumption in Norway by 2015. Organic farming has developed rapidly since the early 1990's. From 1991 to 2005, the area of organically certified or...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Recreational consumption as a market for farm based food and tourism businesses

Increasing leisure time increases the importance of leisure related consumption as compared to everyday consumption. Recreational consumption may therefore represent a potentially important market for developing small scale farm-based rural businesses. Lo cal attachment through relatives or secon...

Awarded: NOK 4.9 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Market orientated production of Norwegian greenhouse tomatoes

Quality parameters like taste, positive health impact, safety and freshness become more and more important to preserve and increase consumers preference for tomatoes. While 80% of the Norwegian population prefers Norwegian food, the percentage of Norwegia n tomatoes sold in our stores has been de...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Efficient green support

Dismantling of trade barriers under WTO regulation is expected to have a large impact on Norwegian agriculture. Apart from food and raw materials production, agriculture contributes many external benefits to society in the form of valued scenery, bio-dive rsity, flood control and health and nutri...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Development and clinical testing of juice rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants

We will develop juice rich in natural antioxidants and phytochemicals and test bioactivity in clinical trials. Specifically, together with TINE R&D we aim at develop two juices based on grapes, pomegranates and/or blueberries. By screening potential ingre dients available on the marked we will op...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Automatic weed assessment for precision spraying in cereals

The load of herbicides on Norwegian cereals fields is unnecessarily high. The spraying represents an unnecessary cost for farmers, in Norway estimated to about 20 millions NOK yearly, and lots of herbicides superfluously spread to the environment. The mos t important reason for this excessive her...

Awarded: NOK 8.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Preclinical diagnosis of prion disease

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a threat to food safety and to human and animal health. Diagnosis of these diseases and early detection of the infective agent is vital for future spread and prevention of disease. The identification of candidate molecules as biomarkers of pre...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Stability and mobility of Shiga toxin-encoding bacteriophages in clinical and environmental strains of Escherichia coli O103

E. coli O103 belongs to a subset of serotypes of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) associated with severe human illnesses. Shiga toxin (Stx) production is essential but not sufficient for virulence in pathogenic STEC as factors involved in att achment, haemolysis and iron scavenging a...

Awarded: NOK 3.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

NKJ 127 Assessment of validity of the dairy health recording systems in the Nordic countries (DAHREVA)

The disease control schemes of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden were elaborated in a 1-year NKJ pilot project in 2001 (project number NKJ: 1276). The pilot project suggested three possible main reasons for differences in the numbers of treatment record s: 1) differences in the recording system...

Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

NKJ 128 - Phenotypic and molecular characterisation of genetic resources of Nordic timothy (Phleum pratanese L.)

Timothy is the most important forage grass species in the northern part of the Nordic countries. However, serious winter damages, which significantly lower persistency and yields, occur regularly. The Nordic plant breeders have so far been quite successfu l in developing new, high-yielding variet...

Awarded: NOK 1.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

PROSDIV-Diverse

Towards self-sustainable European regional cattle breeds (EURECA)

Prosjektet omhandler bevaring og bruk av lokale/regionale kuraser: " status og organisering av eksisterende bevaringsprogrammer for disse i Europa " kartlegging av metodikk og software for forvaltning av genressurser " utvikling av perspektiver og retning slinjer for å utvikle raser og vellykkede...

Awarded: NOK 0.45 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Safe grains: Mycotoxin prevention through resistant wheat and oats

In 2004 there were alarming levels of mycotoxins like DON and T-2/HT-2in Norwegian wheat and oats. In 2005 the latter levels in oats were prohibitive for e.g. horsefeed. The present proposal builds on a decade of Norwegian cereal breeding and research to introduce/identify resistance against the ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Rapid DNA-based prediction of mycotoxin levels in food and feed

The major mycotoxin producers in foods in Norway and Europe are members of the genera Aspergillus, Fusarium and Penicillium. Two major classes of mycotoxins produced by Fusarium spp. are trichothecenes and fumonisins. The biosynthetic pathways involve gen es organised in (Tri- and Fum-) gene clus...

Awarded: NOK 2.6 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Technology and methods using high-density microarrays for detection of unknown genetic modifications in plants, fungi and bacteria

To ensure the safety of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) they are subjected to risk assessment prior to release into the environment and use in e.g. food production. Such known GMOs are considered to be as safe as conventional varieties. GMOs for whi ch publicly available descriptions are un...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Optimized quality and yield of plum and apple by regulation of flowers and fruitlets

Consistent cropping of high quality fruit is important for the fruit industry where technology for cost effective and environmentally friend methods for crop regulation is highly wanted. Due to alternate bearing, Norwegian fruit growers are not able to se rve the apple market regular with the amo...

Awarded: NOK 6.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

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