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[PROJECT] AFSPAN - "Aquaculture for Food Security, Poverty Alleviation and Nutrition"
ID: 289760
Start date: 2012-01-01, End date: 2014-12-31
"Aquaculture is widely considered as important for enhancing food security, alleviating poverty and improving nutrition. However, little information is available concerning the direct and indirect impacts of aquaculture on food security and poverty alleviation in most develop...
Programme: FP7-KBBE
Record Number: 101755
Last updated on: 2015-03-10
[PROJECT] SUNRAY - Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come
ID: 266080
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2012-12-31
This is a critical time for nutrition. Malnutrition rates remain high, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa where only nine out of 46 countries are on track to achieve the first Millennium Development Goal target of a 50% reduction in underweight prevalence among children under...
Programme: FP7-KBBE
Record Number: 97296
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
[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] TRYLEIDIAG - Simplified rapid molecular diagnosis and characterisation of Leishmaniasis and Human African Trypanosomiasis
ID: 15379
Start date: 2005-11-01, End date: 2009-10-31
Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), caused by Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense or T.b. rhodesiense, affects currently 500.000 people in sub-Saharan Africa. Visceral, cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniases (LEI) are caused by several Leishmania spec ies. Leishmaniases th...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 78787
Last updated on: 2010-10-08
[PROJECT] ICTTD - Integrated consortium on ticks and tick-borne diseases
ID: 510561
Start date: 2004-09-01, End date: 2010-08-31
Tick-borne diseases (TBD) are responsible for major depressions in livestock production and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and Asia. The aim of this Coordination Action (CA) is to support a research program on tick-borne diseases jointly executed by a consortiu...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 75670
Last updated on: 2010-08-31
[PROJECT] SCIENCE 4 BIOREG - Global involvement of public research scientists in regulations of Bio-safety and Agricultural Biotechnology
ID: 43012
Start date: 2006-11-01, End date: 2010-02-28
The project proposal addresses the growing gap between public sector life sciences in agricultural biotechnology on the one hand and regulatory policies and public perceptions on the other. Public research in modern biotechnology aims at solving problems in food and feed produ...
Programme: FP6-FOOD
Record Number: 83979
Last updated on: 2013-03-26
[PROJECT] EPIGENEVAC - Epidemiology and new generation vaccines for Ehrlichia and anaplasma infections of ruminants
ID: 3713
Start date: 2005-07-01, End date: 2009-06-30
Heartwater or cowdriosis is a rickettsial disease of wild and domestic ruminants caused by Ehrlichia ruminantium. It occurs in sub-saharan Africa,Madagascar and the surrounding islands where the Amblyomma vectors are distributed. The disease is established in the Caribbean reg...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 75154
Last updated on: 2010-01-07
[PROJECT] TRYPADVAC2 - Development of an "anti-disease" vaccine and diagnostic tests for African trypanosomosis
ID: 3716
Start date: 2005-06-01, End date: 2009-05-31
The aim is to contribute to improvement of livestock productivity in DC through limitation of trypanosome-associated pathology and accurate diagnostics of trypanosome infections. It is proposed to develop immunisation strategies against pathogenic factors of trypanosomes (anti...
Programme: FP6-INCO
Record Number: 75155
Last updated on: 2009-05-15
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