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Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems (CORE ORGANIC PLUS)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2013, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2018,

Organic agriculture is considered to be one of the important development pathways for improving agriculture’s relation with the environment while at the same time ensuring food safety and future food security. This role is dependent on continuous research and innovation.CORE Organic Plus will continue, update and consolidate the series of transnational research calls which support a focused and co ...
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Strategies to develop effective, innovative and practical approaches to protect major European fruit crops from pests and pathogens (Dropsa)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2018,

The DROPSA consortium will create new knowledge and understanding of the damage and losses of fruit crops resulting from pests and pathogens, with a specific focus on the new and emerging threats due to Drosophila suzukii and quarantine pathogens Pseudomonas syringae, Xanthomonas fragariae and X. arboricola. The project will deliver a cost effective approach that can be widely implemented by the E ...
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"Structure, strength and invasibility of aphid food webs" (APHIWEB)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2018,

"The project aims at characterizing and comparing food webs associated with aphids developing on 6 distinct ecosystems in native vs. invaded areas (continents). By considering food webs associated with pest insects and comparing food web structure & functioning on an international scale, we will broaden our understanding of processes underpinning food web functioning and herbivore population regul ...
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Biological Control as a model system to investigate the factors affecting the establishment and dynamics of introduced populations (BIOMODICS)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

"The factors affecting the establishment success of introduced populations (be them accidently introduced noxious species or purposely introduced beneficial species) are still poorly understood. Investigating these factors (demographic, genetic, and environmental) requires experimental approaches, in which factors can be manipulated and isolated. Biological control is a particularly appropriate mo ...
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Optimised food products for elderly populations (OPTIFEL)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2013, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2017,

Optilfel has as its ultimate goal to contribute to elders’ health by combating denutrition due to both physical capacities diminution and appetite loss. The concept of Optifel is to translate the knowledge on nutritional needs, food preferences and physical capacities into accurate specifications for food products and packaging. Food products (including packaging and food serving methods) will the ...
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Ameliorating the Sustainable Control of Invasive Insects (ASCII)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2013, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2017,

"The general aim of this project is to promote the integration of new practices (derived from fundamental research in biology, genetics & biological control) for promoting the sustainable control of two invasive pests the tomato leafminer Tuta absoluta and the spotted wing fly Drosophila suzukii by:(i) strengthening the links between researchers from several disciplines, needed to conduct top-qual ...
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Intersectoral Collaborations to Boost Research and Development Dynamics in Biological Control of Agricultural pests (COLBICS)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

"Seen the societal and political demand for reduction of insecticide use in agriculture, the growth of biological control activities (crop protection methods relying on natural enemies) should be faster. In particular, the private sector of Biological Control Agent (BCA) production could access larger parts of the phytosanitary market. This slow private sector expansion can be explained by its lim ...
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Optimized oxidoreductases for medium and large scale industrial biotransformations (INDOX)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,

The INDOX proposal on industrial oxidoreductases aims to provide relevant industrial case stories to demonstrate the efficacy of optimized biocatalysts on targeted reactions, and to establish the processes scalability, sustainability and cost-efficiency versus chemical conversion processes. The chemical industry (specialties excluded) is not yet embracing enzymatic oxidation reactions to a signifi ...
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MOLECULAR EVOLUTION ACROSS THE SOLANACEAE: MICRO- AND MACROEVOLUTIONARY PROCESSES LINKED TO DOMESTICATION (SOLUTION)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,

"The project is related to evolutionary biology and aims to investigate the variation in evolutionary patterns of polymorphism induced by domestication, at the genome scale, using NGS, in 3 horticultural crop species, of the Solanaceae family (tomato, pepper and eggplant) both at (1) the intra specific level and (2) the interspecific level. Surprisingly, few studies have investigated such patterns ...
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Implementation of Multi-scale Agricultural Indicators Exploiting Sentinels (IMAGINES)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 30 juin 2016,

The Copernicus Land Service is being built in the framework of the FP7 geoland2 project, which is setting-up pre-operational infrastructures. IMAGINES intends to ensure the consolidation and the continuity of the R&D efforts initiated in geoland2 to support the operations of the Copernicus Global Land Service, preparing the exploitation of the future Sentinel data in the Copernicus Operations pha ...
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Better Understanding of Bugs for Improved Environment (BUGSIE)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,

Nezara viridula, a member of the stink bug complex, is cosmopolitan in distribution as it occurs throughout tropical and subtropical regions of Europe, Asia, Africa the Americans and Australasia. This species is extremely polyphagous attacking several plants species, and most of them are economic species. Non-selective insecticides belonging to carbamates, such as monocrotophos, metamidophos, chlo ...
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Use of Microorganisms for Carotenoids Delivery: Next Generation of Probiotics for Cardiovascular Disease (CARODEL)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,

CARODEL aims to valorise the results from the previous FP7 COLORSPORE project, in which initial isolation and characterization work was performed on Bacillus strains producing gastric-stable carotenoids. As the stability in the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), antioxidant activity and bioavailability of particular Bacillus carotenoids was shown to be higher than those of common dietary carotenoids, t ...
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development of a tool for effective diagnostic monitoring of honey bee colonies (Swarmonitor)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2012, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2015,

There are 600,000 beekeepers in the European sector, mainly SME family-owned companies. The revenue generated by this industry is more than €400M in Europe. However, the European Union has a net negative trade-balance in bee products, mainly honey, producing only 54% of its demand (the EU imports from cheaper producers, namely Argentina and China). However, despite its importance and the obvious p ...
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Smart Controlled Environment Agriculture Systems (SMART-CEA)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 31 mai 2015,

Half of the European Union's land is farmed. This fact alone highlights the importance of farming for the EU's economy, employment, energy use and environment. In recent years several factors (climate change, unpredictably outside weather conditions, water shortage, energy crisis, environmental pollution) lead to an increase of agriculture production under controlled environments, (CEA) such as gr ...
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A user friendly Decision Support System for an integrated vineyard management, for addressing quality and quantity production variability optimising the use of resources (VINTAGE)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2011, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2015,

The objective of this project is to offer to the SMEs Associations the first integrated management solution for supporting vine growers throughout vineyard life cycle, from planting to harvesting, aiming at addressing quality and production variability issues by means of an advanced Decision Support System (DSS). This DSS will be based on the output of well established and consolidated models appl ...
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Pesticide Use-and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with Integrated Pest Management (PURE)

Date du début: 1 mars 2011, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2015,

"To meet both the worldwide demand for food security and new environmental needs, agriculture must increase food production and quality while decreasing its ecological footprint. Ensuring sustainability and competitiveness with reduced pesticide inputs is a major challenge.PURE will provide integrated pest management (IPM) solutions and a practical toolbox for their implementation in key European ...
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Integrating new practices in programs of Biological Control against Agricultural pests (IPRABIO)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2011, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2015,

"Agriculture faces new challenges as a consequence of the increase of human populations, the demand of more sustainable ways of production and the increase of crop pest resistances and invasions. In this context, crop protection methods relying on the use of natural enemies (biological control) are of utmost importance. Yet, research and development in biological control suffers from structural pr ...
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Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2010, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2015,

Pollinators form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide vital ecosystem services to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying upon them. STEP will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of some ...
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A LOW COST SORTING SOLUTION FOR THE FRUIT SECTOR BASED ON THE EVALUATION OF INTERNAL FRUIT QUALITY (FRUITGRADING)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2012, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,

This project aims to improve the competitiveness of SMEs within the European Fruit Sector by providing them with a new fruit sorting technology to produce and market high quality “premium grade” product. SME-AGs have identified the “premium” branding approach, as a response to the competitive pressure from producers in developing nations and from large retailers. This goal is aligned with the majo ...
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SUSTAINABLE USE OF IRRGATION WATER IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION (SIRRIMED)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2010, Date de fin: 31 mars 2014,

"SIRRIMED project will address issues related to sustainable use of water in Mediterranean irrigated agricultural systems, with the overall aim of optimizing irrigation water use. The approach proposed in SIRRIMED for reaching this goal will be based in an Integrated Water Irrigation Management (IWIM) where the improving water use efficiency will be considered at farm, irrigation district and wate ...
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Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems (CORE ORGANIC II)

Date du début: 1 mars 2010, Date de fin: 31 août 2013,

Organic agriculture and food markets have grown considerably and organic agriculture addresses important challenges of European agriculture, such as sustainable production of high quality food, reducing dependency on high energy inputs, improving environmental and nature conservation, climate change adaptation, animal welfare and rural livelihoods. Organic farming and food systems still have a big ...
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Advancing Mediterranean Forest Research Capacities (AGORA)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 30 juin 2013,

"In order to avoid an irreversible situation for Mediterranean forests in MPCs, a coordinated approach throughout the Mediterranean basin to improve forest management and policy-making based on reliable information and tools is required . AGORA will update and enlarged the scientific knowledge on the sustainable management of forests in selected MPCs through scientific cooperation and networking a ...
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Smart tools for Prediction and Improvement of Crop Yield (SPICY)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2008, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2012,

"The aim of this project is to develop a suite of tools for molecular breeding of crop plants for sustainable and competitive agriculture. The tools help the breeder in predicting phenotypic response of genotypes for complex traits under a range of environmental conditions. Pepper will be used as a model crop. The idea is to use a crop growth model as a tool to predict the phenotypic response of a ...
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"New Sources of Natural, Gastric Stable, Food Additives, Colourants and Novel Functional Foods" (COLORSPORE)

Date du début: 1 juin 2008, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2011,

"Functional foods provide a buoyant growth sector and the use of carotenoids is the most dynamic not only as colorants but as food additives. One issue with these products is their instability both on the shelf and upon digestion. Recently, gastric-stable bacterial-derived carotenoid preparations have been discovered by members of this consortium and these 2nd generation carotenoid preparations, a ...
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FUNctional-structural plant models for improved estimation of crop and soil status based on REmote Sensing Observations (FUNRESO)

Date du début: 22 août 2008, Date de fin: 21 août 2009,

"The present proposal aims at developing a novel approach for improving the accuracy of estimation of crop and soil variables from remote sensing, which is today limiting for a number of applications as in precision agriculture. The approach is based on the coupling of a dynamic functional crop model to a 3-D canopy structure model. This will allow to take explicitly into account the 3-D architec ...
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