2012 Research Topics

For the deadline 1 November 2012, the following research topics are available:

#	Title	Key words	1^st Institution	2^nd Institution
1	Managing pesticides safety risks in high value chains	Safety, pesticides, fruits and vegetables, supply chain, risk management	Montpellier	Copenhagen
2	Evaluation and analysis of environmental impacts of livestock grazing family farming systems in the temperate Pampas of South America	Natural grasslands, climate change adaptation, carbon sequestration, GHG emissions, family farming, beef cattle ranching	Wageningen	Montpellier
3	Livelihood, welfare and nutritional food security outcomes of agro-food products commercialization in rural areas of Morocco	Food production, commercialization, innovation, household livelihoods, food security, indicators	Catania	Montpellier
4	Constraints to adoption of legumes in a cropping rotation cycle with maize within small scale farming systems of Northern Thailand	Maize cropping systems, crop rotation, legumes, N-fixation, constraints to adaptation	Copenhagen	Montpellier
5	Reduced emissions from intensified rice production systems	GHG emissions, rice farming, integrated farming systems, organic fertilisers	Copenhagen	Wageningen
6	Building upon the potential of organic agriculture in East Africa to contribute to sustainable development	Organic agriculture, soil fertility management, global food chains, sustainable livelihoods	Copenhagen	Cork
7	Smallholders’ business innovation	Market access, business model, entrepreneurship, innovation, social organisation, soft operation research, qualitative research	Copenhagen	Catania
8	Contract Farming and Supply Chain Efficiency for improved market access in Malawi	Supply chains, contract farming, management, efficiency, market access	Cork	Madrid
9	Impact of climate change on the agro-ecological innovation of food agroforestry systems in West Africa	Climate change, agro-forestry, intensification, food security, innovation system	Montpellier	Madrid
10	Managing for profit in a changing marketing, social and agro-ecological environment: Co-operative approach to smallholder farming and business practices	Co-operative, smallholder farmers, changing market, agro-ecology	Cork	Montpellier
11	Quality scheme for biodiversity and sustainable development: promoting innovation in producer/consumer interfaces	Biodiversity, quality labelling system, producers / consumers interfaces, GI, slow food movement	Montpellier	Catania
12	The dynamics of innovation in developing countries: the case of citrus and olive market chain in Tunisia	Innovation, market chain, innovative chain, competitiveness, evolutionism, technological trajectories, rural development	Montpellier	Wageningen
13	Smallholder Farming Systems, Ecosystem Governance and International Trade: The Case of Palm Oil in Indonesia and Thailand	Palm oil, smallholder farming practices, ecosystems, trade, competing claims, sustainability	Wageningen	Copenhagen

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Ida Marie Krogager, - last update:18 October 2012