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[PROJECT] COCOQUAL - Developing biochemical and molecular markers for determining quality assurance in the primary processing of cocoa in west africa
ID: ICA4-CT-2002-10040
Start date: 2002-09-01, End date: 2007-02-28
The main purpose of the project is to improve the current quality assessment practices used both by producers and buyers of cocoa in West Africa, which are currently based on subjective parameters. The project will carry out detailed microbiological and biochemical analysis of...
Programme: FP5-INCO 2
Record Number: 64269
Last updated on: 2005-12-09
ID: IC18970215
Start date: 1997-12-01, End date: 2001-11-30
* To describe and interpret the practices and popular representations in connection with health and the illness in West Africa, and their interactions with the practices and representations of the health workers.
* To use thus collected socio-anthropological knowledge to impr...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 40176
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
[PROJECT] SAGA-EO - Support Action to GMES-Africa on Earth Observation (SAGA-EO)
ID: 242190
Start date: 2010-08-01, End date: 2012-10-31
The SAGA-EO proposition consists in a feasibility study on critical pieces of the puzzle of the Lisbon Declaration Implementation Plan on GMES and Africa and to complement previous experience in that field. The SAGA-EO concept is based on a sound experience of both European a...
Programme: FP7-SPACE
Record Number: 95051
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
ID: IC18980382
Start date: 1998-10-01, End date: 2002-03-31
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 46499
Last updated on: 1999-03-11
[PROJECT] INDIGENOVEG - Networking to promote the sustainable production and marketing of indigenous vegetables through urban and peri-urban agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa.
ID: 15101
Start date: 2006-01-01, End date: 2008-06-30
Indigenous vegetables (IV) play an important role in the African diet, economy & environment. However, they have not featured significantly in the research agendas of international or local organisations, which have tended to focus on improved exotic varieties. IndigenoVeg aim...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 78490
Last updated on: 2008-10-01
[PROJECT] TFCASS - Tsetse flies and the control of African sleeping sickness
ID: 31849
Start date: 2006-10-01, End date: 2010-09-30
African sleeping sickness is endemic in 37 sub-Saharan African countries covering 9M km2 with 60 million of the 400 million inhabitants at risk of the disease. Africa is in the middle of a HAT epidemic and WHO estimate that in 2004 there were 500,000 cases with 48,000 deaths a...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 80002
Last updated on: 2010-09-30
[PROJECT] TREATCONTROL-VHF - New approaches to treatment and control of Lassa fever and Yellow fever in West Africa
ID: ICA4-CT-2002-10050
Start date: 2003-01-01, End date: 2006-06-30
From survivors of LF or YF, combinatorial phage-display antibody libraries will be constructed and neutralizing antibodies will be selected. Recombinant antibodies will be used for studying the molecular mechanisms of virus neutralization and will be engineered for immunothera...
Programme: FP5-INCO 2
Record Number: 67475
Last updated on: 2006-06-13
[PROJECT] NETSSAF - Network for the development of sustainable approaches for large-scale implementation of sanitation in Africa
ID: 37099
Start date: 2006-06-01, End date: 2008-11-30
Without a sharp acceleration in the rate of progress, the world will miss the MDG sanitation target by half a billion people. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa almost two-thirds of the population (64%) are lacking adequate access to excreta disposal facilities. In African co...
Programme: FP6-SUSTDEV
Record Number: 81294
Last updated on: 2010-05-10
ID: 208801
Start date: 2007-10-01, End date: 2012-03-09
Intraspecific genetic diversity is the ‘raw material’ that allows species to adjust to a changing world. For predictions of the effects of Global Change, it is crucial to know if low genetic diversity is a result of local adaptation (i.e. if a species has experienced strong s...
Programme: FP7-PEOPLE
Record Number: 88081
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] SUPERSOLDYNAF - Quantum states in ultracold fermionic gases in optical lattices:
Supersolid and dynamic antiferromagnetic states
ID: 275383
In recent years the fields of condensed matter physics and ultracold atomic gas physics have developed a fruitful interplay. The former has a long history of describing quantum states of matter based on simplified models, such as the Hubbard model, whilst the latter now manag...
Programme: FP7-PEOPLE
Record Number: 99200
Last updated on: 2017-03-27
List retrieved on: 2017-07-28
