Fellowships awarded by the Co-operative Research Programme
Information about fellowships funded since 2016 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.
2021 Fellowships
18 international research fellowships out of 35 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
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Acquisition of Primordial Germ Cell (PGC) technologies to enable secure preservation and reliable utilization of chicken genetic resources
- Assessment of environmental impacts and ecosystem services from biogas production in British Columbia (AEROBIC)
- Design principles for improved innovation and knowledge systems for forests and natural resource management in a changing climate
- Determining the relationship among soil health, soil microbial community functions, and tomato plant stress in organic and conventional agroecosystems
- Fishery management implications of freshwater fish life-histories: effects of demographic trends and size-dependent reproductive output
- Global virtual water trade: unraveling complexity in the international food-water nexus
- Managing semi-natural habitats for sustainable agricultural production in France - lessons from Sweden
- New approaches to improving food security in a post-COVID world
Theme 2
- Biological control of invasive pests: implications for biodiversity and ecological stability
- Incorporating disease intensity and pathogen genetics in network analysis of long-distance dispersal and spread of plant disease epidemics
- New approach methods to assess risks of nanomaterials in the food supply chain
- Rethinking resilient agriculture: From climate-smart agriculture to climate-functional farming
- Wildland fire management during COVID-19
Theme 3
- A framework for integrating forest foods and medicines into a bioeconomy
- Curcumin-nanospheres as a feed additive to improve the pig’s growth performances and health
- Development of high-quality forage sorghum for a sustainable and climate-resilient future livestock industry
- Genetically engineering Toxoplasma gondii as a novel vaccine delivery system
- Merging engineering and plant breeding: Bendable electronics and sensing technologies to improve plant productivity
2020
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Theme 1
- Death of spruce in Central Europe: disaster or opportunity?
- Development of a web-based framework for integrated water management in agriculture based on data assimilation and machine learning techniques
- Development of advanced in vitro protocols for plant biodiversity conservation
- Do agricultural subsidies improve farmers’ eco-efficiency? Towards sustainable intensification of Asian agriculture
- Integrative approach for improving forest tree productivity, climatic adaptation and stress tolerance
- Landscape approach to maintaining Chile's natural capital through sustainable viticulture
- Nematode trait-based indicators of climate change in semi-arid agricultural systems.
- Spatial modelling of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) in agricultural landscapes to enhance socio-ecological outcomes
Theme 2
- Characterisation of environmental calcium content as predictor of disease severity by the emergent plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa
- Deep-sequencing and bioinformatics approaches to support norovirus illness outbreak investigations
- Development of novel technologies in integrated biting fly management via understanding physiological mechanisms of spatial and contact repellency
- Potential risk of commonly used neonicotinoids: tools for evaluating the environmental exposure and contamination levels in agroecosystems
- Researchers know it, but do regulators? Lesser known aspects of fruit fly invasions
Theme 3
- Epigenetic markers of fish domestication for selective breeding
- Evaluation of the functional significance of Interleukin-8 haplotype for anti-viral immunity
- Investigating next-generation sequencing technology as a standard diagnostic tool for grapevine trunk disease fungal pathogens
- Mining orchard yeast diversity for novel horticultural biocontrol agents
- Resilient pest management programmes in horticultural crops based on increased plant defensive responses
- Understanding the mechanisms involved in epigenetic variability and inheritance in plants
2019
2019 Fellowships
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Theme 1
- Does exposure to biodiversity protect against childhood leukemia?
- Identifying drivers of N2O emissions in a changing climate
- Long-term effects of forest management on soil carbon: Understanding the mechanisms of soil carbon vulnerability and resilience to harvest
- Minimum tillage sowing techniques for sustainable organic cereal production (Confidential report)
- 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 (Confidential report)
- Regenerative agriculture – transforming food systems by coupling grassroot innovation with scientific understanding
- Simultaneous delivery of provisioning and regulating ecosystem services in forested lands (Confidential report)
- 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
- Bioinformatic analysis of RAV gene family in rice: Mining systems genetic datasets
- 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
- Combining historical records and species distribution modelling to evaluate directionality on species introductions along the Atlantic Coasts (Confidential)
- 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)