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Xylella Fastidiosa Active Containment Through a multidisciplinary-Oriented Research Strategy (XF-ACTORS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

XF-ACTORS aims to establish a multidisciplinary research program to answer the urgent need to improve prevention, early detection and control of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf). Recently, Xf was introduced into Italy, where it is causing severe damage to olive crops, and in France, where so far it is limited to ornamental plants and some landscape trees. The overall goal of the research program is to asse ...
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Fighting against obesity in Europe”: The role of health related-claim labels in food products (OBESCLAIM)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Dec 21, 2017,

"The aim of this project is to investigate whether and how health-related claim labels in food products lead consumers to choose healthier food diet and therefore, nutritional and health labeling could be considered a valid tool to fight against obesity in Europe taken into account also consumers’ personal characteristics (socio-demographic, economic, nutritional and health status etc) and psychol ...
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Breeding for a sustainable agriculture: quality and resistance in the frame of H2020 (Breed4Future)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

Plant diseases cause major production and economic losses in agriculture worldwide by reducing yields, lowering quality and decreasing nutritional value. Monitoring health and diseases in plants is critical for sustainable agriculture aiming at providing an adequate supply of food, feed and fiber. Loss reduction is a high priority for European Agriculture, being a pillar of the new H2020 program. ...
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CO2 Emission Reduction of the Rice Cultivation Through Energy Valorisation of the Rice Straw (LIFE SOSTRICE)

Start date: Jun 2, 2014, End date: May 31, 2017,

Background According to the national ministry of agriculture, food and the environment, around 121 746 hectares were under rice cultivation in Spain in the 2011-12 agricultural season. One of the main environmental challenges of rice cultivation is the management of the organic waste material known as ‘rice straw’. Burning the rice stubble in the fie ...
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Role of health-related claims and symbols in consumer behaviour (CLYMBOL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

Health-related claims and symbols may be potentially influential in supporting informed choice, furthering healthier consumer food choices, and strengthening competitiveness of the European food industry in bringing about food products that support a healthier lifestyle. However, current insights into how health symbols and claims are understood and used in real-world shopping situations are limit ...
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Do consumers value food labels? An assessment of the impact of information and personality traits on the demand for food labels (FOODLABELS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

"In recent years, changes in economic, social, cultural factors, as well as in tastes and consumers preferences and the increasing availability of products are driving consumers to change their eating habits. Consumers are gradually assigning more importance to the diet-health relationship when making their food choices. They have also become more concerned with environmental issues. Health consid ...
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Desarrollo de una Organizacion Transfronteriza reproducible del tipo RAza/territorio/producto de la Genetica a la Carne de calidad para un desarrollo económico sostenible en el Area Pirenaica (modelo raza bovina Gasconne) (OTRAC)

Start date: Feb 28, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

La experiencia de los socios franceses en la actuación sobre una raza abarcando desde su esquema de selección genética hasta su comercialización de forma directa (ganadero-consumidor), puede permitir a los ganaderos españoles aprender y aplicar su experiencia a este lado del Pirineo. Al mismo tiempo, crear una estructura de raza común para España y Francia, permite un mayor y más rápido avance gen ...
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