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BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Biomass allocation of individual birch trees along an environmental gradient,dr,gr,stip

Norway is committed to report emission by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gasses to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol (KP). Carbon pools in forests are efficiently monitored by converting standard forestry measurements from inve...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Love on the farm: A risky business? Marital settlements, cohabiting agreements and divorces in family farms

A divorce or a break-up on a family farm is a complex process with potentially disastrous consequences not only to individuals and families, but also to the economic viability on family farms. This project is explorative as there is no research-based know ledge about the extent to and the ways in...

Awarded: NOK 4.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Integrated coastal area management - Working out a framework for sustainable development

The conflicts regarding use of the coastal zone and adjacent waters are increasing, internationally as well as nationally. In Norway, new activities like tourism and recreation, conservation, aquaculture and industrial activities related to energy product ion compete with traditional use of space...

Awarded: NOK 18.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Optimalisering av kvalitet og markedstilpasning gjennom verdikjeden ved en helårsomsetning av levende kamskjell (Pecten maximus)

Prosjektets mål er å utvikle en lønnsom omsetning av levende håndplukkede kamskjell (Pecten maximus) med optimal kvalitet gjennom hele året. Prosjektet har en biologisk teknologisk del som omfatter forbedring av lagringdelen, og en markedsdel for promoter ing av norske håndplukkede kvalitetsskjel...

Awarded: NOK 3.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Sorter av jordbær og bringebær som egner seg til industri (inntekt 193993)

Det fire-årige Industribærprosjektet som startet opp i 2009, der verdikjeden samarbeider om FoU, er forlenget med ett år fordi det var ønskelig med ytterligere forsøk for å konkludere med større sikkerhet når det gjelder både dyrkningsegenskaper og egneth et for prosessering av jordbær og bringeb...

Awarded: NOK 5.4 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Land use changes in urban pressure areas - threats to food production and landscape qualities

This project focuses on conflicts related to land use changes in urban pressure areas. Threats to future food production and landscape qualities are addressed. The pressure on land resources have increased as a consequence of expanding and new competing a ctivities, i.e. energy production, as wel...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Back to the future? Policy responses to increasing food prices and climate change in the new millennium, dr.gr.stip og utenl.stip.

Prosjektet ?Tilbake til framtida? Landbrukspolitisk respons til stigande matprisar og klimakrise» tok sikte på å utvikle omgrep og kunnskap som trengst for å reformere landbrukets institusjonar og verkemiddel: Kva no med den norske landbruksmodellen? Kan ein oppnå den planlagde produksjonsvekste...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Regulering av toppskudd og trekvalitet i juletrær

Juletre og pyntegrønt er produkter som verken er beskyttet av importtoll eller subsidier. Det er derfor må den norske produksjonen være konkurransedyktig på pris og kvalitet. Konkurrerende produsenter i andre land kan benytte veksthormoner til å regulere strekningsvekst, og har dermed et stort ko...

Awarded: NOK 2.1 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Buskerud

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Food consumption: Changing preferences or stable habits?

Increase in food-related diseases, also in Norway, emphasizes the importance of exploring how food choices are made and which factors influence them. This project aims to explore and assess the importance of habit as a determinant in food consumption, in addition to the traditional preference- an...

Awarded: NOK 3.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2012

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

NKJ 132 - Persistent effects of subsoil compaction on soil ecological services and functions (POSEIDON)

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Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2009-2013

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Optimizing silviculture for bioenergy production in Norway, dr.gr.stipendiat

The current focus on bioenergy makes it likely that the future demand for wood products from forestry calls for a more intensive silviculture that produces valuable timber and energy wood. Silvicultural means to increase wood production include species se lection, density management, genetic impr...

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Food restrictions of allergic patients resolved by a novel type vaccine.

The project aims to improve the diagnostic tools for food allergy and the methods of detection of allergens in foods and, most importantly, to investigate a vaccine for food allergy. The current diagnostic tools include skin tests in which food extracts are applied to the skin. These methods are...

Awarded: NOK 4.4 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The Spanish salt fish market and opportunities for the Norwegians

The objective of this project is to investigate the restructuring of the Spanish salt fish market and the adaptation of the Norwegian salt fish producers to this market. While exports of salt fish to Spain from other countries have grown considerably the Norwegians have lost market share the last...

Awarded: NOK 6.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improving food safety in the domestic environment by risk analysis of consumer food handling and evaluation of risk-reducing measures(188384

Food contamination creates a significant social and economic burden on communities and their health systems. In 2005, about 30% of reported food borne outbreaks in Norway originated to food consumed at home. Food producers or retailers are often pointed o ut as responsible in food associated outb...

Awarded: NOK 9.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Genome-wide approaches to the genetic improvement of cattle, pigs and salmon

During the last decade, industry, research and funding rganisations have invested considerably into the development of molecular genetic technologies and resources with the expectation that information at the DNA level will lead to faster genetic gain tha n using phenotypic data alone. But as lon...

Awarded: NOK 4.7 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Role of marine food to fight metabolic syndrome: evaluating the benefits and risks

Although marine food has long been known to have health properties, its roles and impacts on insulin sensitivity and metabolic diseases (e.g. type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypertension, coronary heart diseases etc.) remain still unclear and worldwide debated. Beside its potential health effects, rec...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Vestland

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Improved potato quality by reduced skin blemish diseases (scab and scurf) in Norwegian potato production

The project aims to improve the control of skin blemish diseases on potato in Norway. Potato has approx annually a wholesale value of NOK 500,000,000. Skin blemish diseases (scurf and scab) have become an increasing problem in Norway, mainly for the fre sh marked potato. The quality problem is ...

Awarded: NOK 8.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Forbedring av produktkvalitet og økt potensial for norsk produksjon av storfekjøtt

Det er et langsiktig underskudd på storfekjøtt i det norske markedet. Dette har betydelige økonomiske konsekvenser for næring/industri. Mørhet er storfekjøttets største kvalitetsutfordring. Avlsmessig framgang for egenskapen vil øke konkurransekraften i f orhold til importert storfekjøtt. Prosjek...

Awarded: NOK 9.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Innlandet

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Low Salt Products

All aktivitet i prosjektet er avsluttet med unntak av Kirsti Greiffs PhD-arbeid. Avhandligen skal etter planen leveres juni 2015. Den første artikkelen er godkjent, artikkel nr to sendes inn ila august. Artikkel nummer tre og fire skal sendes inn til vitenskapelige tidsskrift i løpet av høsten. I...

Awarded: NOK 11.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2014

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

By-products from fruit and berry processing; a source of health promoting components?

Tittel: Optijuice: Biprodukter fra frukt og bær prosessering – en kilde til helsefrembringende komponenter? Mål: Utvikle fenolrike, naturlige og høyverdige matprodukter med fordelaktige biologiske egenskaper fra biprodukter etter frukt- og bærprosesserin g. Delmål 1) Optimalisere ekstraksjonen ...

Awarded: NOK 3.1 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

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

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

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Moisture induced effects on the capacity of screws and threaded bar connections in timber structures.

The competitiveness of timber structures is largely governed by the design and effectiveness of its connections. Moisture-induced cracks in wood connections are a major problem in load bearing connections. Threaded bars and long self-tapping screws repres ent new possibilities in the quest to avo...

Awarded: NOK 3.3 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

The conservation of vulnerable epiphytic lichens in managed boreal forests

This project aims to generate new scientific knowledge necessary for sustainable resource utilization in managed boreal forests. A fundamental challenge is to develop timber harvest regimes without adversely affecting biodiversity. Improving the condition s for vulnerable species in managed fores...

Awarded: NOK 3.6 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2012

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

Handel med oppdrettsfisk - hva er suksesskriteriene?

Prosjektet forkuserer på tre overordnede spørsmål.: 1) Hvilke grep har man gjort i eksporten av oppdrettsartene laks, pangasius og tilapia i det internasjonale markedet som har gjort at man har lykkes i å ekspandere eksporten både med hensyn til volum og marked? 2) Hvorfor har man ikke lykkes å f...

Awarded: NOK 7.0 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Marine omega-3 fatty acids and health - use of systems biology in controlled dietary intervention studies

Intake of fatty fish and cod liver oil has been part of a healthy diet in Norway for many years due to the high availability of fish. Omega-3 fatty acids from cod liver oil are used by the Norwegian food industry to develop new healthy food for the consum ers. To understand the beneficial health ...

Awarded: NOK 3.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Oslo

BIONÆR-Bionæringsprogram

Mycotoxin contamination in oats, - characterization of the infection process by the major T-2 and HT-2 toxin producer Fusarium langsethiae

The trichothecene deoxynivalenol (DON) is frequently found in wheat. However, in Norway also the more toxic trichothecenes T-2 and HT-2 are often found, particularly in barley and oats. In 1999 Langseth and Rundberget concluded that 'Norwegian oats were f ound to contain HT-2 and T-2 toxin in con...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2008-2013

Location: Akershus