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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...

Tildelt: kr 10,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Akershus

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...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 8,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 7,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 3,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Oslo

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...

Tildelt: kr 4,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

IPY-Det internasjonale polaråret 2007/2008

EALÁT-RESEARCH: Reindeer Herders Vulnerability Network Study: Reindeer pastoralism in a changing climate.

IPY EALÁT-RESEARCH focuses through research on understanding adaptive capacity of reindeer pastoralism to climate variability and change in Russia and Norway. IPY EALÁT Reindeer herding and climate change has received full endorsement from IPY Joint commi tty (number 399) and is a core project fo...

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Finnmark - Finnmárku - Finmarkku

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...

Tildelt: kr 7,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NATURNAER-Natur og næring

Contracts as a tool for improving efficiency in the forestry-wood chain

We have divided the research task into two Work Packages (WPs). In WP1 we conduct surveys in order to describe instruments used, and in WP2 we combine theory with information obtained from WP1 and with experience from comparable markets, in order to come up with improved instruments. Co-ordinatio...

Tildelt: kr 1,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 26,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Oslo

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...

Tildelt: kr 3,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Vestland

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Væskebasert såing - utvikling av dyrkingsteknikk

Væskebasert såteknikk eller våtsåing, er ein relativt ny metode som det til no er utført lite forsking om, både nasjonalt og internasjonalt. Såfrø vert blanda med væske og plassert anten i eller oppå jorda med eitt eller anna spreieutstyr. Væska er ofte b laut husdyrgjødsel som vert spreidd med u...

Tildelt: kr 0,75 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Rogaland

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...

Tildelt: kr 4,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 2,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Akershus

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 ...

Tildelt: kr 9,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

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,...

Tildelt: kr 9,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

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...

Tildelt: kr 2,7 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 2,6 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 3,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 3,4 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NORKLIMA-Klimaendringer og konsekvenser for Norge

NorClim - Climate of Norway and the Arctic in the 21st Century

NorClim responds to the need for identification and understanding of natural climate fluctuations in Norway and the Arctic (our region) by combining analyses of available instrumental data from land and the ocean for the past 50 to 100 years and unique hi gh-resolution time series for the last mi...

Tildelt: kr 59,8 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Vestland

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...

Tildelt: kr 8,0 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2012

Sted: Akershus

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....

Tildelt: kr 4,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Oslo

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 ...

Tildelt: kr 5,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

MATPROG-Matprogrammet: Norsk mat fra sjø og land

Attractive host plant volatiles and genetic regulation of the olfactory response in the control of apple fruit moth, Argyresthia conjugella

The apple fruit moth Argyresthia conjugella is regarded as the most important insect pest on apples in Fennoscandia. Until 2005 the organophosphorous compound azinphos-methyl (Gusathion) has been used in apple fruit moth control. The compound is now dereg istrated due to environmental concerns an...

Tildelt: kr 9,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 7,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2010

Sted: 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...

Tildelt: kr 3,3 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2011

Sted: Akershus

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...

Tildelt: kr 2,1 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2009

Sted: Akershus

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...

Tildelt: kr 7,2 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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...

Tildelt: kr 12,5 mill.

Prosjektperiode: 2007-2013

Sted: Akershus