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[PROJECT] VMERGE - Emerging viral vector borne diseases
ID: 613996
Start date: 2013-12-01, End date: 2016-11-30
The project intends to address the risk of emerging viral vector borne diseases in two main categories of arthropods known to transmit important animal and zoonotic diseases: mosquitoes (Aedes and Culex), and Culicoides biting midges. A research proposal targeting potential e...
Programme: FP7-KBBE
Record Number: 110711
Last updated on: 2016-12-12
[PROJECT] HELIX - High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes
ID: 603864
Start date: 2013-11-01, End date: 2017-10-31
With the target of limiting global warming to 2ºC increasingly difficult to achieve, policymakers, businesses and other decision-makers need to plan to adapt to changes in climate under higher levels of global warming. This requires coherent information on the future climate ...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 110977
Last updated on: 2017-01-16
ID: 243964
Start date: 2010-02-01, End date: 2013-07-31
One of the most dramatic and immediate impacts of climate variation is that on disease, especially the vector-borne diseases that disproportionally affect the poorest people in Africa. Although we can clearly see that, for example, an El Nino event triggers Rift Valley Fever ...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 93952
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
ID: IC18980322
Start date: 1998-11-01, End date: 2002-02-28
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 46457
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
[PROJECT] AGRICAB - A framework for enhancing EO capacity for Agriculture and Forest Management in Africa as a contribution to GEOSS
ID: 282621
Start date: 2011-10-01, End date: 2015-03-31
AGRICAB aims to strengthen Earth Observation (EO) capacities in Africa by building on the open data sharing through GEONETCast, connecting the available satellite and other data with predictive models in order to facilitate integration in agriculture and forestry planning and...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 100555
Last updated on: 2016-04-12
[PROJECT] IRMA - Integrated Risk Management for Africa
ID: 224353
Start date: 2008-06-01, End date: 2009-12-31
Disaster risk reduction policies and institutional mechanism exist at various degrees of completeness in the African countries part of the consortium. Their effectiveness is however limited when having to deal with major disasters and complex emergencies. Risk management is o...
Programme: FP7-ICT
Record Number: 87828
Last updated on: 2017-04-13
[PROJECT] COMPETE - Competence platform on energy crop and Agroforestry systems for arid and semi-arid ecosystems - Africa
ID: 32448
Start date: 2007-01-01, End date: 2009-12-31
The objective of this Competence Platform on Energy Crop and Agro-forestry Systems for Arid and Semi-arid Ecosystems is to stimulate bio-energy implementation in arid and semi-arid regions in Africa. COMPETE will establish a platform for policy dialogue and capacity building i...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 84921
Last updated on: 2010-12-06
ID: IC18960040
Start date: 1996-12-01, End date: 2001-12-31
The main objectives are as follows:
* Develop new remote sensing techniques for monitoring dryland degradation.
* Identify the causes of open forest degradation by empirical studies of agricultural and urban expansion that take an integrated approach to biophysical and socio-e...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 35357
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18960064
Start date: 1997-03-01, End date: 1998-08-31
The project will study the regulation of the various production systems existing in the context of the Moroccan, Mauritanian and Senegalese cephalopod fisheries. Bringing together researchers from both natural and social sciences, the project aims to document and analyze the d...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 35369
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18960080
Start date: 1996-10-01, End date: 2000-12-31
The main objectives are as follows:
* To assess the ecological changes in the Lower Senegal River Basin and related aquatic weed problems as a result of the construction of the Diama dam near the outflow of the river, with emphasis on the Lac de Guiers.
* To study and assess t...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 34243
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
List retrieved on: 2017-07-30
