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Enhanced Protective Immunity Against Filariasis (E PIAF)
Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,
"Filarial infections remain a major public health problem in West and Central Africa. Three filarial species are involved: Onchocerca volvulus (onchocerciasis or river blindness); Wuchereria bancrofti (lymphatic filariasis); and Loa loa (the eye worm). Treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin has been successful in many situations but emergence of drug resistance and risk of severe adverse reac ...
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Coordination of Agricultural Research in the Mediterranean (ARIMNet)
Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2013,
Agricultural research in the Mediterranean is characterised by three main features: it is scattered within the EU members and in Mediterranean Partner Countries as well as most of the problems and challenges that the Mediterranean agriculture is facing are shared by all the countries in the area and even further, its objectives are largely the same in the whole area, even if priorities can vary fr ...
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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation through Alternative Landuses in Rainforests of the Tropics (REDD-ALERT)
Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Oct 31, 2012,
...missions, socio-economic drivers and impacts, and policy options for emissions reduction”. The overall goal of the project is to contribute to the development and evaluation of mechanisms and the institutions needed at multiple levels for changing stakeholder behaviour to slow tropical deforestation rates and hence reduce GHG emissions. This will be achieved through enhancing our understanding of ...
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Sustainable Aquaculture Research Networks in Sub Saharan Africa (SARNISSA)
Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,
...mergent players in the African and wider aquaculture scene that will build on an existing framework knowledge resource base and exchange platform - the ‘Aquaculture Compendium’. Project partners: Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (coordinator; UK); CIRAD (France); WorldFish Center (Egypt), CABI (UK HQ); Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand), Bunda College of Agriculture (Malawi); ...
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Collaborative Technological Plateform for implementation for WDF within agricultural context (CONCERT"EAU)
Start date: Oct 1, 2006, End date: Sep 30, 2009,
Background
The impact of agriculture on Europeâs water resources will have to be reduced if the quality of surface and groundwater is to be improved. The agricultural soils of EU countries contain large nitrogen surplus that can potentially pollute both surface and groundwater. Furthermore, in many European countries pesticides contaminate the drinking ...
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