The 3rd Call of the FP7 Theme - Food Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology has been published. It contains a number of research topics which are directly related to Agricultural Research for Development and the MDGs, with a special emphasis on Africa. Deadline is January 15th 2009.
The 3rd Call of the FP7 Theme - Food Agriculture, Fisheries and Biotechnology has been published: details at http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.FP7DetailsCallPage&call_id=143
It contains a number of research topics which are directly related to Agricultural Research for Development and the MDGs, with a special emphasis on Africa.
These are the main ones:
(1) Agricultural Innovation Systems & Traditional knowledge (CSA-SA)
(2) Optimisation of methods to maintain animal biodiversity (CP-FP-SICA)
(3) Conservation agriculture in Developing Countries. (CSA-SA)
(4) Improving performance and quality of crops in the context of organic and low-input systems by breeding and management (CP-IP – Targeted opening)
(5) Irrigation water saving solutions for Mediterranean agriculture (CP-FP-SICA)
(6) Water stress tolerance ((large scale integrating project – Targeted opening)
(7) Policy and institutional aspects of sustainable agriculture, forestry and rural development in the Mediterranean partner countries (CP-FP-SICA)
(8) ERANET on ARD
The expected EC contribution for the above projects can be estimated to be around 24 million €.
The deadline for submission is 15 January 2009 at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time)
Jean-Luc Khalfaoui
Executive Secretary
European Initiative for Agricultural Research for Development (EIARD)
http://www.eiard.org
