AGMEMOD Agrifood-projections for EU member states
The AGMEMOD Partnership model is an econometric, dynamic, multi-product partial equilibrium model.
Contact: Myrna van Leeuwen
AgriXchange
agriXchange is a EU-funded coordination and support action to setup a network for developing a system for common data exchange in the agricultural sector.
Contact: Sjaak Wolfert
Benelux BoP LL: multiactor platform to facilitate the research and development agenda of market driven pro poor innovations
Contact: Myrtille Danse
Capacity building in the floriculture sub sector in Uganda
This project aimed at developing tailor made education and training courses for the floriculture sector in Uganda.
Contact: Olga van der Valk
CAFE: Capacity, F and Effort The relationship between fleet capacity, fishing effort and fishing mortality
Capacity reduction and effort limitation are major tools in fisheries management.
Contact: Erik Buisman
CAP-IRE
Assessing the multiple Impacts of the Common Agricultural Policies (CAP) on Rural Economies.
Contact: Nico Polman
CAPRI-RD Common Agricultural Policy Regionalised Impact (The Rural Development Dimension)
This four year project is concerned with the development and application of a tool for policy impact assessment of the Common Agricultural Policy and general Rural Development policies.
Contact: David Verhoog
CATSEI Chinese Agricultural Transition: Trade, Social and Environmental Impacts
Contact: Hans van Meijl
COBECOS Costs and Benefits of Control Strategies
COBECOS will conduct what amounts to a cost-benefit analysis of control schemes for management strategies relevant to the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
Contact: Erik Buisman
CONNECT4ACTION
The CONNECT4ACTION project intends to improve the communication between consumers, consumer scientists, food technology developers, and other key players, in order to improve the success of food technology development and commercialisation in Europe.
Contact: Karin Zimmermann
DGIS-WUR Sustainable Agro-supply chains
Sustainable agro-supply chains are emerging from the amazing shift of millions of small producers in the South to demand driven chains.
Contact: Sietze Vellema
DGIS Value chains for pro poor development
The focus of the programme is on agri-food chains of non-perishable products, wherein chain linkages are needed to aggregate volumes and to coordinate and regulate productive activities and transactions.
Contact: Sietze Vellema
Economic Risk Management
Analyses the impact of trade measures (e.g. export taxes and import subsidies) on high food prices, as were seen during the 2007-08 food crisis.
Contact: Gerdien Meijerink
ENDURE
ENDURE is the European Network for the Durable Exploitation of Crop Protection Strategies.
Contact: Jan Buurma
ESFIM Empowering Smallholder Farmers in Markets
This programme focuses on successful and replicable regulatory policies and institutional arrangements that can empower smallholder farmers in markets.
Contact: Giel Ton
EUPHOROS
Reducing the need for external inputs in high value protected horticultural and ornamental crops.
Contact: Marc Ruijs
EUruralis Discussing the future of rural Europe
Eururalis is a tool intended to encourage discussion in the field of the common agricultural policy, international trade policy and EU biofuels policy.
Contact: Hans van Meijl
FACEPA Farm Accountancy Cost Estimation and Policy Analysis of European Agriculture
The project develops tools and methods to analyse production costs in European agriculture using FADN (Farm Accountancy Data Network) data.
Contact: David Verhoog
Factor Markets
Analyzing the functioning of factor markets for agriculture in the EU-27, including the Candidate Countries.
Contact: Lindsay Chant
FOCUS-BALKAN Food Consumer Science in the Balkans: Frameworks, Protocols and Networks for a better knowledge of food behaviours
The general objective of the project is to improve competencies and understanding in the field of consumer food science in the Western Balkan countries (WBC).
Contact: Abele Kuipers
Focus: Climate-resistant coastal zones
Sustainable use and climate proofing of our coast.
Contact: Hans van Oostenbrugge
GTAP The Global Trade Analysis Project
GTAP is a global network of researchers and policy makers conducting quantitative analysis of international policy issues.
Contact: Marijke Kuiper
HCC Hortichain Center
Linking small and medium sized companies with high value market segments through the development of an Indonesian Horticultural Supply Chain Development Centre.
Contact: Myrtille Danse
ISAFRUIT
ISAFRUIT is a European Integrated Research Project that focuses on all aspects of fruit from its start as a seed till a consumer bites into a juicy end product.
Contact: Karin Zimmermann
JOLISAA
Joint learning in and about Innovation Systems in African Agriculture. JOLISAA aims to assess and learn from past and ongoing experiences in three countries in Africa (Benin, Kenya and South Africa) with multi-stakeholder approaches to agricultural innovation development, particularly looking at the role of local knowledge and innovation in the process.
Contact: Jolanda van den Berg
Legume Futures
Legume-based cropping systems for environmental sustainability.
Contact: Tom Kuhlman
LUPIS Land Use Policies and Sustainable Development in Developing Countries
The project will develop integrated assessment tools for sustainable development for application by scientists in a selected number of developing countries.
Contact: Floor Brouwer
Markets, Chains and Sustainable agricultural development
This project investigates the interface between markets, value chains, vital rural economies and enabling institutions to inform policy and strategy about possible measures that may contribute towards the achievement of the intertwined objectives of economic and sustainable development.
Contact: Giel Ton
NTM impact
Analyzing the effects from non tariff measures (NTM) in the global agri-food trade.
Contact: Siemen van Berkum
PACIOLI
The PACIOLI Network explores the need for and feasibility of innovation in farm accounting and its consequences for data gathering for policy analysis in Farm Accountancy Data Networks (FADNs).
Contact: Koen Boone
PEGASUS Public Perception of Genetically modified Animals - Science, Utility and Society
PEGASUS aims to provide policy support regarding the development, implementation and commercialisation of GM animals, and derivative foods.
Contact: Karin Zimmermann
PRATIQUES Enhancements of Pest Risk Analysis Techniques
PRATIQUE is an EU-funded 7th Framework research project designed to address the major challenges for pest risk analysis (PRA) in Europe.
Contact: Johan Bremmer
PURE Pesticide Pesticide Use-and-risk Reduction in European farming systems with Integrated Pest Management
PURE is an EU-funded 7th Framework research project to provide practical IPM solutions to reduce dependence on pesticides in selected major farming systems in Europe, thereby contributing to a reduction of the risks to human health and the environment and facilitating the implementation of the pesticides package legislation while ensuring continued food production of sufficient quality.
Contact: Jan Buurma
Q-DETECT Developing tools for one-site phytosanitary inspection
Q-DETECT is a multi-disciplinary research network focused on developing innovative tools that enhance the capacity of phytosanitary inspectors to protect European agriculture and forestry sectors from invasive pests.
Contact: Johan Bremmer
RURAGRI
RURAGRI aims to improve coordination between on-going and future European, national and regional research programmes dealing with the new relationships between rural areas and agriculture in Europe and the challenge of sustainability.
Contact: Floor Brouwer
SAFRUIT
Action research on indigenous fruit trees in the Sahel
The aim of SAFRUIT is to improve living conditions of people living in Sahel through improving their access to trees and tree products.
Contact: Jolanda van den Berg
Scenar 2020 Update of the scenario study on the future of agriculture and the rural world
The Scenar 2020 study aims at identifying of future trends and driving forces that will be the framework for the European agricultural and rural economy on the horizon of 2020.
Contact: Peter Nowicki
SEAMLESS Association Maintain and disseminate SEAMLESS-Integrated Framework
The SEAMLESS Association developed an Integrated Framework for Integrated Assessments based on linkage of individual components (models, data, indicators) that enables analyses of the environmental, economic and social contributions of a multi-functional agriculture and the effects of a broad range of issues (e.g. climate change, new policies, innovation).
Contact: Irina Bezlepkina
SENSOR Sustainability Impact Assessment: Tools for Environmental, Social and Economic Effects of Multifunctional Land Use in European Regions
Contact: Tom Kuhlman
SmartAgriFood
The SmartAgriFood project is part of the Future Internet Public-Private Partnership (FI-PPP) program and addresses farming, agri-logistics and food awareness as a use case for this. The intelligence, efficiency, sustainability and performance of the agri-food sector can be radically enhanced by using information & decision support systems that are tightly integrated with advanced internet-based networks & services.
Contact: Sjaak Wolfert
SPARD Spatial Analysis of Rural Development Policies
The aim of the SPARD project is to develop a modeling tool that will help policy-makers to understand the causal relationships between rural development measures and their results in a spatial dimension.
Contact: Peter Nowicki
TAPSIM Trade, Agricultural Policies and Structural Changes in India’s Agrifood System
The project offers a qualitative and quantitative analysis of future developments in Indian supply, demand and trade for the main agricultural commodities as well as developments in the food value chain.
Contact: Floor Brouwer
Teampest Theoretical Development and Empirical Measurement of the External Costs of Pesticides
The project fulfils its aims by combining traditional and well-established theoretical methodologies with the most recent advancements in economic theory, building also upon the biological and technical scientific work on pesticide use developed over the last years.
Contact: Johan Bremmer
VECTORS of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors
VECTORS aims to improve our understanding of how environmental and man made factors are impacting marine ecosystems now and how they will do so in the future.
Contact: Erik Buisman
Weather based Index Insurance
In collaboration with IFAD and WFP, aims to develop a mapping tool to assess weather risk and implement weather insurance in Africa
Contact: Gerdien Meijerink