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NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Implementing environmental policy -analysing the governance of integrated use and protection politics

During the last decades, the involvement of local stakeholders, lay knowledge and cross-sectoral approaches in environmental decision making have been addressed in a wide range of international conventions. Also, the Mountain text and the Coastal strategy , described by Norwegian environmental au...

Awarded: NOK 4.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Handtering av grasstrengen i totrinnshausting, for rask fortørking og god surfôrkvalitet.

Surfôr av god hygienisk og ernæringsmessig kvalitet er avgjerande for eit godt økonomisk resultat i norsk mjølk- og kjøttproduksjon. Totrinnshausting og fortørking før konservering kan gi betre kvalitet og lågare produksjonskostnader enn direkte hausting, og har gradvis vorte meir brukt også i N...

Awarded: NOK 0.63 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Møre og Romsdal

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Animal welfare and energy production and account when utilizing locally produced wood chips and peat in circuit-based animal production

The ProLOCAL project aims at innovate technologies for animal housing and at the same time combining the hitherto mainly separated enterprises of forestry, animal husbandry, bio energy and organic farming. In today's animal husbandry there is a great dema nd for litter material. Litter and other ...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Økt konkurransekraft i norsk produksjon av epletrær

Prosjektet 'Økt konkurransekraft i norsk produksjon av epletrær' har som hovedmål å utvikle forbedret produktkvalitet og kostnadseffektivitet i norsk produksjon av epletrær. Delmål i prosjektet er metoder for rasjonell oppformering av eplegrunnstammer og alternative produksjonsteknikker for å red...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Telemark

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Formation of flavour components from PUFA and how these are influenced by the presence of molecular pro- and antioxidants and mitochondria

The project is a joint effort within The Food Alliance at Ås and within the coming NOFIMA Research group plus the participation of two food industries: NORTURA and TINE. The project focuses on generating more knowledge in the area of flavour formation in formulated food products containing differ...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Innovative and attractive fish dishes (188389)

Attractive seafood dishes for large scale production are in minority among the dishes served in institutional households and industrial kitchens of the HoReCa segment. The seafood dishes present are characterised by low quality due to improper handling, p rocessing, packaging, storage conditions ...

Awarded: NOK 6.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2010

Location: Rogaland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Økologiske eplesorter for Norge

Den viktigste enkeltfaktoren for vellykket økologisk produksjon av epler er høy skurvresistens, men det også nødvendig at de produserte eplene likes av forbruker. Prosjektet skal først velge ut nye, skurvresistente eplesorter som passer for økologisk dyrk ing i Norge. Sortene skal så karakteriser...

Awarded: NOK 2.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Telemark

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

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Utvikling av multivariate statistisk/genetiske metoder og modeller for økt avlsframgang på husdyr og fisk

For å møte markedets krav til avslmaterialet både på husdyr og fisk må stadig nye egenskaper av økonomisk betydning inkluderes i avlsmålene. Etter hvert som avslarbeidet har utviklet seg teknologisk har det blitt meget effektivt. Stor framgang for enkelte genskaper kan, på grunn av ugunstige gene...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Innlandet

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

Ultra-high throughput sequencing platform

Recent technological breakthroughs making possible low cost ultra-high throughput gene sequencing (UTS) open up a new era within biology. It is now possible to sequence a bacterial genome in less than a week, a human chromosome in 3-4 weeks or generate m illions of metagenomic sequences in days....

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Driving forces in vegetation dynamics and their consequences for ecosystem services

This project looks at four specific human-related driving forces of ecosystem change that are identified as major threats to biodiversity today or are predicted to become major threats in the near future. These are (1) habitat change, (2) climate change, (3) pollution, and (4) invasive species. T...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: A new model approach to assess genetically modified plants: their ecotoxicity and potential interactions with environmental pollutants

Genetically modified (GM) plants from modern biotechnology have already a history as commercialised feed and food products. The agricultural industry using GM techniques is rapidly increasing and represents large scale options and challenges for both soci eties and ecosystems. Environmental impac...

Awarded: NOK 6.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Potential of the European blueberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) for cultivation and industrial exploitation in Norway.

To day there are no industrial exploitation of the European blueberry (EB) in Norway, in contradiction to the highly exploited lowbush blueberry of Canada. However, the EB have a much higher content of biological compounds important for human health (ant ioxidants etc.). In addition it is regard...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

From plants to human - plant accumulation and transfer of organic foreign compounds in primary food chain

The transfer of contaminants from soil through the food chain -from farm to fork- is a major issue of the agenda of the European Commission and also a thematic priority area within The Food Research Programme's Call for 2008. To achieve the goal of food s afety, knowledge and tools for estimating...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

MILJØ2015-Norsk miljøforskning mot 2015

LAND: Policy for harmonising national park management and local business development

The role and legitimacy of large protected areas (LPA) is questioned in most countries in the world, and there is a quest for new management models and policy regimes capable of integrating regional development and conservation goals. The project will rev iew how conflicts in connection to PA hav...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improved control of Colletotrichum acutatum in strawberry and sweet cherry

Colletotrichum acutatum is an important fungal pathogen in many crops worldwide. In the Nordic countries it is of particular importance in strawberry and cherry where it causes blackspot and bitter rot, respectively. The disease usually appears very late in the season in sweet cherry, even after ...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improving barley yields in organic stockless farming systems through innovations in green manure management

Helårs grønngjødsel brukes for å bedre jordas fruktbarhet og sanere ugras. I Byggro-prosjektet har vi prøvd ut ulik handtering av helårsgrønngjødsel. Etter slått ble grønnmassen enten hakket og tilbakeført, fjernet eller fermentert i biogassreaktor og del vis tilbakeført som gjødsel til korn nest...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Expansion Strategies for Local Food Enterprises

The overall objective of this project is to contribute towards increased value added in local food enterprises, by obtaining new knowledge about the conditions for expansion, and how the industries can solve challenges they face in different phases of exp ansion. Sub-goals: 1. Conduct an analys...

Awarded: NOK 3.5 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Norwegian bread wheat with high baking quality and sustainable disease resistance through marker-assisted selection (188291).

Norway has in recent years become almost self-sufficient in wheat thanks to better and more adapted varieties. While nearly all high quality wheat for bread making was imported a couple of decades ago, the milling and baking industry now depend on quality wheat produced in Norway. To achieve bre...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

FUGE-Funksjonell genomforskn.i Norg

The Norwegian plant transcriptional profiling centre

The Norwegian Arabidopsis Centre (FUGE-NARC) was established as a part of FUGE I. NARC provided national service in plant functional genomics and the service activity was shared between Univeristy of Life Sciences (UMB, transformation/genotyping), Univers ity of Oslo (Y2H, in situ hyb) and Norwe...

Awarded: NOK 2.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Helsearbeid på bier

Det foregår i dag ingen forskning på bisykdommer ved norske universiteter og høgskoler. Den faglige aktiviteten på dette fagområdet foregår i regi av Norges Birøkterlag. Det er svært viktig for næringen at Norges Birøkterlag utvikler seg videre som et na sjonalt kompetansesenter innen bisykdomme...

Awarded: NOK 0.94 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Presisjonsgjødsling til jordbær og bringebær i forskjellige klima- og dyrkingsområder

Jordbær og bringebær til friskkonsum er produkter der det er marked for økt produksjon i Norge, og de siste årene har det skjedd en omfattende strukturendring i norsk bærproduksjon. Det har blitt færre og større produsenter, og nye sorter og dyrkingssyste m har blitt tatt i bruk (plasttunneler, t...

Awarded: NOK 3.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Innlandet

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

RENERGI-Fremtidens rene energisystemer

Energiegffektiv avvanning og tørking av slam, vått avfall og faste biobrensler. Norsk deltakelse i IEA-annex.

Prosjektet består i norsk deltakelse i et IEA Annex under IETS; ?Energy Efficient Drying and Dewatering Technologies? og ledelse av Subtask B. Proposal for dette Annexet er vedlagt. Endelig beslutning om Annexet igangsettes skal avgjøres i ExCo-møte 8-9/1 1 i Amsterdam. Annexet er planlagt å løpe...

Awarded: NOK 0.12 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Effect of northern climate and postharvest conditions on health related properties of selected Brassica vegetables in Norway

Some previous studies have shown that certain vegetables grown at high northern latitudes with cool summers, long photoperiods and special solar radiation develop different quality than vegetables grown in the south. However, very little is known about ho w Brassica vegetables respond to differen...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Healthy cheese: Influence of milk fat components on microbial activity and development of bioactive components in fat reduced cheese.

Prosjektet SUNN OST har skal danne et kunnskapsgrunnlag slik at oster med redusert fettinnhold med gode sensoriske egenskaper kan utvikles. Vi ønsker å øke forståelsen av hvordan melkefett og fettkulemembran komponenter (FKMK) påvirker mikrobiologisk veks t og metabolisme i ost, utvikle metoder f...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Biogas residue - a safety risk in organic farming?

The Norwegian government aims to increase the organic food production and consumption to 15 % of the total within year 2015. To reach this ambiguous goal, it is estimated that of the total Norwegian agricultural area for each crop, approx. 18 % of the mea dow, 20 % of the pasture, 7,5 % of cereal...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2011

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Quality Goat Milk for Cheese Production / Kvalitetsmjølk for kvit geitost

The pattern of consumption of goat milk in Norway is currently changing, and consumers are more inclined to cheese than whey products (brown cheese). This calls for an improvement of overall quality and especially of flavour and rennet coagulation propert ies of the milk. The present project will...

Awarded: NOK 9.2 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

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