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MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Shape of lactation curve, with special reference to feeding strategy, health, fertility, and economic outcome in dairy

Summary The total milk production during a full lactation is determined by the peak and the shape of the lactation curve. A primarily analysis of the mean lactation curves for different large herds under Norwegian conditions revealed a large and substant ial differences from one herd to another....

Awarded: NOK 4.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

The Effects on Population Dynamical Key-Processes of a Changing Climate in Arctic Ecosystems

The present project aims at understanding and predicting how variations and changes in climate can affect key-processes that operate both on population dynamical and ecosystem level. More specifically, we will use long-term monitoring data on population d ynamics and population specific demograph...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Interna.trade regulating organisations and Sout-East Asian regionalisation of trade agreements. Implications for Norwegian seafood industry

The study focuses on two overall questions: 1) What are the main trends of development of the WTO and regional trade organisations? and 2) What are the consequences for the Norwegian seafood industry? The region of South-East Asia is of strategic interes t to the Norwegian seafood industry, both...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Agriculture and Fisheries Policies between International Regimes on Trade and the Environment

This project examines how international obligations emanating from environmental and trade regimes, and the interaction between them, affect selected aspects of Norwegian domestic and foreign policy making on agriculture and fisheries and Norwegian positi ons in WTO negotiations in those two sect...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

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

EVA-Evaluering

Følgeevaluering av verdiskapingsprogrammet for kulturminner

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Awarded: NOK 2.7 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

FRIBIO-Biologi og biomedisin

Contact meeting for the Norwegian Biochemical Society

The annual meeting of the Norwegian Biochemical Society has a world-wide reputation as an excellent meeting place for scientists, both on the scientific and the social level. They have been a tremendous success and is arguably the one meeting in Norway wh ich has contributed the most to the conta...

Awarded: NOK 0.36 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

Polar Study using Aircraft, Remote Sensing, Surface Measurements and Models, of Climate, Chemistry, Aerosols, and Transport - Norway

To address the above objectives, POLARCAT will carry out four major (and a few smaller) co-ordinated measurement campaigns in the Arctic. These will involve about 12 different aircraft (some involved in more than one mission), a ship, and all the major Ar ctic surface stations, for which long-ter...

Awarded: NOK 17.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Akershus

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Socio-economic and environmental impacts of organic farming

Organic farming has developed rapidly in recent years. Interest in the organic sector stretches beyond the market opportunities. It is perceived to provide multiple benefits beyond the immediate effect on the farmer, e.g., environmental performance, healt hier and safer food, rural development an...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Feral sheep in coastal heaths - developing a sustainable local industry in vulnerable cultural landscapes, dr.gr.stip.

Year-round sheep farming on the Norwegian west coast has a history dating back several millennia. This important part of our cultural heritage has resulted in a distinct breed of animals, the feral sheep, that has evolved in close interaction with the cre ation and maintenance of a unique semi-na...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2012

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

A Study of Influenza Viruses in Their Natural Reservoir in Wild Birds in Norway

The major goal of this project is to better understand the dynamics of influenza A virus infections in wild birds in Norway. At the National Veterinary Institute, in the context of the surveillance for highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1, a large collection of samples is being gathered ...

Awarded: NOK 5.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Reduction/elimination of spore forming bacteria in lightly heat treated foods

The project seeks to identify processes which are able to strongly reduce spore forming bacteria in lightly heat treated (<98 ºC) foods. To solve this task, three research groups with different, complementary competence will cooperate. The project require s characterisation of potentially pathoge...

Awarded: NOK 7.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Anthelmintic resistance in small ruminant nematodes in Norway

Gastrointestinal nematode infestation is considered as the most important of all infectious diseases in small ruminants. Losses due to endoparasites, and the degree of suffering involved, has a marked impact on animal welfare and production losses in smal l ruminant flocks around the world. In th...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

PLAN - Responding to Climate Change: The Potentials of and Limits to Adaptation in Norway

PLAN is a coordinated, social science-based research project that analyzes the potentials of and limits to adaptation as a response to climate change in Norway. This four-year project will provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of adaptation a s a social process, with an emphasis on i...

Awarded: NOK 26.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2013

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Landscape planning versus real world landscape changes

This project will study changes in land use on a municipal scale, based on analyses of existing, up-dated digital maps (DMK) and older versions to be digitised from existing analogue format. Four to six municipalities in the Oslo Fjord region will be chos en as study areas, dependent on data avai...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

Location: Akershus

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

Civil protection and climate vulnerability

This project takes the link between civil protection and climate change as its starting point. Our aim is to investigate which factors determine the capacity for local adaptation to climate change by studying long-term institutional learning within civil protection institutions in the wake of ext...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

Location: Vestland

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

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Natural and farmed habitat as a basis for production of red deer in Norway

The project will provide a basis to predict the potential for production of red deer based on detailed knowledge of the natural and farmed habitat as well as detailed studies of red deer habitat use in multiple areas. The yield of red deer reached 27600 i n 2005. Red deer thus constitute the 2nd ...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2011

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

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

The optimal choice and timing of agricultural policies in the presence of uncertainty

Agricultural policy analysis has traditionally focused on the optimal choice of policy instruments for a given set of policy objectives. Less attention has been paid to the fact that the timing of policy implementation is another choice variable to policy makers. This choice is reflected in the ...

Awarded: NOK 1.4 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2010

Location: Oslo

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Innovativ trebruk i Flerbruksanlegg. Avsluttes våren 2010.

Bakgrunn: Skanska Norge AS er en sentral partner i en prosjektallianse for å planlegge, bygge og drifte et flerbruksanlegg på Elverum. Prosjektet er nyskapende både når det gjelder samarbeidsform, drift og utnyttelse av arealer. Ved utviklingen av prosjek tet vil det bli lagt stor vekt på innovat...

Awarded: NOK 0.90 mill.

Project Period: 2007-2009

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

NORDAM-SAM-Samarbeidet Norge – Nord- Amerika

Dr.stipendiat til 173989 Optimal helse, velferd, og mattrygghet for kvalitetsprodukter fra norske geiter

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Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2013

Location: Oslo

NORDAM-SAM-Samarbeidet Norge – Nord- Amerika

Dr.stipendiat til 173911 Assessing wood properties of forest resources by airborne LiDAR

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Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2011

Location: Akershus

NORDAM-SAM-Samarbeidet Norge – Nord- Amerika

Dr.stipendiat til 173388 Health, Nutrition and Food Demand: Effects of Information and the Substitution between Good Foods and Bad Foods

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Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2006-2012

Location: Oslo