Fellowships awarded by the Co-operative Research Programme
Information about fellowships funded since 2015 can be found in the links below, including reports from fellows and links to published papers that came out of the fellowships. It may be useful to look at these if you are applying for a CRP fellowship to see what sort of research projects have been funded in the past. To apply for funding, please see the upcoming call for applications.
2019 Fellowships
After a successful call for applications, 22 international research fellowships out of 53 received have been retained by the OECD Co-operative Research Programme for funding. Download the full list of fellowships for detailed information (pdf).
Theme 1
- Does exposure to biodiversity protect against childhood leukemia?
- Identifying drivers of N2O emissions in a changing climate
- Minimum tillage sowing techniques for sustainable organic cereal production
- Molecular mechanisms of induction of systemic resistance to foliar pathogens by disease-suppressive soils
- New trait-based approach to integrate soil biodiversity into sustainable land management
- Regenerative agriculture – transforming food systems by coupling grassroot innovation with scientific understanding
- Simultaneous delivery of provisioning and regulating ecosystem services in forested lands
- Sustainable management of natural resources using multi-source remote sensing data and enhanced software solutions
- Sustainable valorisation of non-edible residues of the aquaculture and fish processing industries: learning from the Australian standard
- Towards a targeted agrienvironmental policy in Europe: adaptation of a novel payments for ecosystem services framework to Nordic agroecosystems
Theme 2
- Genetic studies on fruit trees for adaptability to climate change
- Sustainable non-chemical control of Russian wheat aphid in cereal crops
Theme 3
- Applying genomics resources to oat genetic improvement
- Circular Bio-economic Strategies for Active Bio-Packaging for Food: Electrospun Nanobiocomposites as High-Barrier Films
- Computational methods for haplotype identification, phasing, and imputation using short-read DNA sequence to enable low-cost genotyping
- Considerations for National Big Data Strategy: Big data in Agriculture in Canada and Australia
- Developing genomic resources for African nightshade (Solanum scabrum) breeding
- Earthworm-assisted bioactivation and ecotoxicity for revalorization of biochars produced from co-pyrolyzing plastic with biomass waste streams
- Enhanced aquafeed production: improving growth and feed quality of microalgal cultures and biofloc (Confidential report)
- Establishment of value-adding products from woody biomass toward low carbon emission
- Natural nano-material derived from spider mite silk: genomics of agricultural pest leads to novel biomaterial
- Resistance to pests and diseases through modulating emission of volatile organic compounds in citrus varieties using new breeding technologies
2018
2018 Fellowships
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Theme 1
- Achieving productivity growth and protection of natural capital: innovative approaches for translating scientific knowledge
- Assessing the use of regulated deficit irrigation techniques in water scarce areas
- Do earthworms compromise the ecological integrity of forested riparian buffer strips?
- Evaluating the contribution of birds as pollinators and pest control agents in forest ecosystems
- Exploring agri-food-water policy transfer opportunities for improved human health protection under a changing climate
- “Greening” the pastures: Can New Zealand’s experience with agricultural intensification guide Brazil’s pathway?
- Investigating relationships between pasture, soil and management on the North Wyke Farm Platform: implications for sustainable pasture management
- Mega- and meso-fauna diversity and abundance, and microbial biomass in field-margins and adjacent agricultural grasslands
- Sustaining biodiversity and ecosystem services in rural agricultural landscapes in a tropical region
- Using gender perspectives in small-scale fisheries research to improve policy
Theme 2
- A global assessment of the impacts and risk-based management of farmed exotic fish escapes on marine ecosystems
- Alternative models for biosecurity surveillance and monitoring
- Evaluating invasion risk in the sea: combining genetics and predictive modelling
- Functional genomics of Tetranychus urticae host adaptation
- Sustainable food and nutrition: Policies and practice to reduce risks to food security by enhancing food system resilience
- The economic impact of climate change on agriculture: a meta-analysis taking adaptation into account (Confidential)
- Translational research in response to international emerging cereal rust disease threats
Theme 3
- De novo genome assembly and comparative genomics of somatic variants adaptable to climate change for cultivar innovation in grapevine
- Novel development of in vitro bioassays for testing and optimisation of unique interventions to mitigate complex diseases in honey bees (Confidential)
- Reconstruction of plant antiviral DICER functions in cell-free extracts and in the heterologous system Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Using bio-economic modelling and circular economy in optimising agri-food waste reuse (Confidential)