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SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Fish welfare and performance in recirculating aquaculture systems

Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), in which fish tank water is recycled with the aid of biological filters, is little used in Norway. RAS may offer advantages over traditional flow-through (FT) systems, regarding sustainability and fish welfare, but these aspects have been little studied f...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Landscape Change

Landscapes are a valuable but also limited and vulnerable natural resource, which currently are changing at unprecedented rates in many locations. Increasing our understanding of landscape change, including driving forces, policy tools (focusing on the ag ricultural landscape) and how different o...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Productivity and competitiveness in the agri-food sector: Comparing Norway and Finland

This programme aims at meeting an increasing demand for research-based knowledge on the competitive position of Norwegian agriculture and food processing industries. This will be achieved through an international comparative study with a particular focus on productivity and the roles of instituti...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Oslo

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Plant metabolites for healthy plants and healthy people

Secondary metabolites are those that do not have a direct function in plant growth and reproduction. Because there are costs associated with the production of all metabolites, it is generally assumed that genes for secondary metabolites are passed on due to the evolutionary advantages they impart...

Awarded: NOK 16.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Increasing wood deliveries and environmental quality

In 2006, the Norwegian government developed the strategy for increased annual harvesting of wood in Norwegian forests. Several analyses show that the strategy can be sustainably implemented. The annual growth of Norwegian forests has the last decades been considerably larger than the annual harv...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Bioavailability and biological effects of chemicals - Novel tools in risk assessment of mixtures in agricultural and contaminated soils

Prosjektet har siste år jobbet på flere fronter: Transkriptom-analyser for meitemark eksponert for ulik miljøgifter og blandinger, med sikte på å beskrive giftighetsmekanismer. Bioinformatikk-arbeidet er ennå ikke ferdigstilt og utarbeides som del av sama rbeidet med Universitetet i Cardiff. Pa...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Phytophthora diseases in Rosaceae: Plant resistance and plant-pathogen interactions

Each year strawberry- and raspberry producers experience serious economical losses due to fungal or oomycete diseases. In this project we will address two such diseases, strawberry crown rot (Phytophthora cactorum) and raspberry root rot (Phytophthora fra gariae var. rubi). An efficient control m...

Awarded: NOK 7.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Functional genomics of wood degradation: strategies used by decay fungi against wood protection systems and natural host defence compounds

Fungal decay of wood products is a global problem that has been traditionally combated with chemical preservatives. There is currently a great demand for alternatives to contemporary chemical preservatives due to their toxicity to the environment, and the current Strategic Institute Program (SIP...

Awarded: NOK 10.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Designing sustainable livestock production systems delivering cultural landscapes with public goods and ecosystem services

Agriculture in Norway is traditionally based on a high level of national support and payments. Policy changes, especially if the state support has to be reduced considerably, can lead to substantial changes regarding land use, the multi functionality of a griculture, cultural landscape qualities,...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

Dynamic and integrated production biology of farmed salmon in sea

The salmon farming industry demands optimal production through-out the entire life-cycle. This demand is currently not realized due to seasonal environmental changes that dramatically influences on feed intake, lipid accumulation, and growth rate during t he sea stage. To improve the predictabili...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Culturally grounded tourism and local food in rural development

Cultural activities and heritage, rural tourism and small-scale food production (CULTOURFOOD) are three fragmented sectors or industries with many actors and little coordination. In spite of increasing economic and social importance and political awarenes s, those industries have separate sector ...

Awarded: NOK 9.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Biofuel from regeneration forest, immature and final harvesting

Management and use of biomass from non-traditional forest operations has today a low priority, partly because the work is expensive and partly because a rational and economic exploitation, for example for bioenergy, is not facilitated. The result is regen eration, while the challenge should be lo...

Awarded: NOK 7.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Improving preparedness through research

The goal of the National Veterinary Institute (NVI) is deliver decision support of good quality for decisions made within the area of animal health and welfare and food safety. According to the political signals and the needs seen, the NVI will intensify the work on preparedness related to all it...

Awarded: NOK 12.5 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Improved welfare in sheep production - Preventive measures, disease resistance and robustness related to tick-borne fever in sheep

The greatest welfare challenges for sheep during grazing are tick-borne fever (TBF), blow-flies, alveld and predators. Production losses on tick infested pastures are substantial, and it is expected that more than 300 000 lambs/sheep are affected by TBF. In sustainable farming, particularly organ...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Akershus

SIP-FKD-SIP finansiert av Fiskeri- og Kystdepartementet

New techniques to achieve more cost efficient selective breeding for improved consumer acceptance of aquaculture products

Disease and meat quality are of high importance to the aquaculture producer, processor and consumer. However, both disease resistance and meat quality traits are complex to understand and measure, costly to evaluate and slow to improve using current metho ds of selective breeding. In this project...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2010

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Recycling organic waste - effects on soil quality, plant nutrient supply and environmental impact

Return of organic wastes to soils is a step towards more closed nutrient cycles, greater sustainability and reduced environmental loads. Because of the enormously variation of availability of plant nutrient as nitrogen and phosphorus between different org anic waste types, there is a great demand...

Awarded: NOK 8.7 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Farm entrepreneurship: the potential and challenges of farm-based new venturing

The Norwegian farm sector faces a number of challenges related to future adjustment. The development of rural tourism and recreation, value-added food products oar new combinations of products and services depends on entrepreneurial activity involving far mers. Research related to the challenges...

Awarded: NOK 12.2 mill.

Project Period: 2005-2011

Location: Oslo

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Effekter av klimaendring på overvintringen av flerårige fôrvekster og høsthvete, og på plantesjukdommer og ugrasvekst og kontroll av disse,

Klimaendringsscenariene for Norge varsler et mer variabelt vinterklima med hyppige variasjoner mellom frost og mildvær, mer nedbør som regn, mer isdekke, mer vass-sjuk jord og mindre snødekke. Spørsmålet hvordan disse endringene vil påvirke overvintringen av fôrgras og høsthvete, plantesjukdomme...

Awarded: NOK 20.2 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2009

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Spredningsøkologi: Er rødlistede arter i skog spredningsbegrenset?

Industrielt skogbruk er i økende grad basert på prinsipper om bærekraftig bruk og utvikling. Skoglige tiltak og vern av viktige biotoper for sjeldne og truete arter er et vesentlig element i en slik miljøvennlig policy. Kjennskap til artenes spredningsøko logi er avgjørende viktig for å forutsi h...

Awarded: NOK 10.6 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Naturressurser og lokal utvikling i skogs- og fjellbygdene - mellom marginalisering, kommersialisering og vern

Skogs- og fjellbygdene er rike på naturressurser, men de tradisjonelle næringene svekkes og marginaliseres. Nasjonale og internasjonale føringer knyttet til bla landbruks- og miljøpolitikk får til dels store konsekvenser. Natursyn og syn på arealbruk og - arealrettigheter er i endring. Programmet...

Awarded: NOK 10.3 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Bakterielle utfordringer i oppdrett av marine arter

Norsk akvakultur opplever for tiden en fase med spesialisering og ekspansjon samtidig som infrastruktur og kompetanse innen bakteriologisk ekspertise i akvatisk bakteriologi i Norge er minimal for tiden. Det er grunn til å tro at bakterieinfeksjoner vil h indre utviklingen av en blomstrende marin...

Awarded: NOK 15.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2010

Location: Oslo

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Establishing knowledge within functional genomic and biochemistry for optimal use of future fish feed lipid resources

Det vil i fremtiden bli begrenset tilgang på fiskeoljer til bruk i fiskefôr. For å sikre en fremtidig vekst innen global akvakulturnæring, vil det være nødvendig å ta i bruk forskjellige fettsyreblandinger inkludert vegetabilske oljer, i fôr til fisk. For andringer i fettsyresammensetningen av fô...

Awarded: NOK 23.1 mill.

Project Period: 2004-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Development of a co-ordinated research programme into food allergen identification, quantification, modification and in vivo responses

There are increasing concerns in the area of food allergy. More specific knowledge is needed with regard to foods and components of food that induce allergic reactions and the mechanisms that explain how these reactions are generated and sustained. This p rogramme will therefore establish an anim...

Awarded: NOK 11.8 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2008

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Risk exposure and risk management in food production - Comparing aqua- and agriculture

While Norwegian fish farming is a relatively new, fast growing export industry strongly dependent on trade, Norwegian agriculture is oriented towards a limited domestic markets, with increasing foreign competition. While both industries are subject to spe cial types of risks as biological product...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2008

Location: Oslo

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Organic cropping systems for higher and more stable cereal yields

'Organic cropping systems for higher and more stable cereal yields' is a 5- year Strategic Institute Programme from Norwegian Research Council, "Bioproduksjon og foredling" led by The Norwegian Crop Research Institute (Planteforsk) in the cooperation wi th The Agricultural University of Norway,...

Awarded: NOK 13.8 mill.

Project Period: 2003-2008

Location: Akershus

SIP-LMD-SIP finansiert av Landbruksog matdepartementet

Future animal breeding goals. Product development in aquaculture and livestock productions

Definition of sound animal breeding goals requires a strong theoretical basis in quantitative genetics and applied animal breeding, proper medelling of animal production, good knowledge about farm economics, awareness of social aspects, and appropriate as sumptions on future production systems an...

Awarded: NOK 9.6 mill.

Project Period: 2001-2008

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa