Fellowships awarded by the Co-operative Research Programme
Information about fellowships funded since 2018 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.
2023 Fellowships
18 international research fellowships out of 47 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
- Accelerating locally-developed freshwater management practices across global growing regions through innovation ecosystems
- Cost-effective controls for mitigating agricultural soil N2O emissions: Opportunities and uncertainties
- Developing a mountain peatland restoration manual: combining lessons from the UK and the USA
- Ecological rhizosphere management for enhanced nutrient efficiency, stress resilience and biodiversity in sustainable agro(ecosystems)
- Environmental monitoring using honey bee colonies and a novel sampling tool
- Land tenure models for carbon positive land use: comparative case studies between Scotland and New Zealand
- Near-Real time irrigation scheduling and crop biomass estimation through remote sensing images with high spatial and temporal resolution
- Using co-operative arrangements for learning from indigenous agricultural systems to enhance sustainability
Theme 2
- Analysing the economic impact of sustainable dietary diversification on consumer choices in the MED countries using nudging strategies
- Cost-effective diagnostic tests for a sustainable control of fasciolosis in ruminants and humans
- Developing a potent kairomone for the European grapevine moth, Lobesia botrana
- Innovative approach to remove seafood pathogens along the seafood chain
- Transcriptomic analysis of the Vibrio vulnificus pv. piscis exposed to fish mucus
Theme 3
- Adapting crops to changing environments using related species and innovative pre-breeding approaches
- Advanced breeding tools for meeting sustainable production and resilience: from satellites to genes
- Dairy farms’ optimal nutrient allocation to maximise profitability and minimise environmental impacts
- Innovative eco-friendly Bio-basEd processes to recover BioactivE compoundS from agri-food wasTe (BE BEST)
- Smart farming technologies and transformation in the work of farmers and advisers: Implications for technology adoption and policy
2022
2022 Fellowships
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Theme 1
- Advancing processes of local agroecological practices inclusion in Climate Change global solutions: "4 per 1000" Initiative lessons for and from Scotland
- Belowground carbon allocation by rice plants: exploring the trade-off between soil carbon sequestration and methane emissions
- Capturing the drivers of crop water footprints in Africa and its regional patterns. Looking backward to move forward
- Connecting hydraulics and growth dynamics in maize leaves to improve drought tolerance
- Environmental and nutritional sustainability of urban value chains : case studies in France and Switzerland
- Intermediate wheatgrass – developing a resilient perennial grain and forage crop for Sweden
- Investigating the humane killing of CRUStaceans through science-based INdicators (CRUSIN)
- Modelling microbially-driven nitrogen and carbon dynamics in soil amended with nano-biochar
- New advanced in remote sensing driven forest phenotyping
- Opening plant variety protection to diverse plant reproductive material and drought tolerant varieties to counter climate change in the EU (Confidential)
- Predicting and improving catch welfare in wild-capture fisheries
Theme 2
- Building a climate change resilience index: a tool instrument to prioritise policies in the agrifood sector
- Disturbance and resilience of Quercus ilex and Quercus suber in response to individual and combined water stress and Phytophthora cinnamomi infection
- Evaluation and calibration of CERES-maize (DSSAT) for maize silage production in northern Spain: Seasonal analysis and modeling climate change impacts
- Expanding genome editing-based approaches for durable resistance to destructive begomoviruses
- Prioritising sustainable food and repurposing food waste for human and planetary health
- Understanding the ecology of Mediterranean Hyalomma ticks in new areas (ECOTICKS)
Theme 3
- A safe genome editing to develop sporeless mushrooms – for sustainable agriculture without genetic pollution
- Assessment and improvement of carbon sequestration in greenhouse horticultural crops
- Estimating the drivers of household food waste: bridging econometrics and simulation modelling
- Exploring stakeholder collaboration in a transition towards a circular economy for food
- Investigation of a spectrometric tool for consumer and food standard agency use on site
- Potato tuber periderm onthogenesis: a cell resolution map of gene expression (Confidential)
- Redesigning the functionality of hexaploid cereal grain (oats) using CRISPR/Cas technology
- Sustainable extraction of bioactive compounds from food by-products
2021
2021 Fellowships
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Theme 1
- Acquisition of Primordial Germ Cell (PGC) technologies to enable secure preservation and reliable utilization of chicken genetic resources
- Design principles for improved innovation and knowledge systems for forests and natural resource management in a changing climate (Confidential report)
- Evidence-based policy and husbandry interventions for protecting livestock and biodiversity
- Global virtual water trade: unraveling complexity in the international food-water nexus (Confidential report)
- 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
- Modelling impact of aerial and trade dispersal on transmission of plant pathogens in networks
- 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
- How do maternal reproductive biofluids affect the epigenome of developing embryos?
- 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
- 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
- Use of IA methods for the assessment of wildfire occurrence and potential spread (Confidential)
Theme 2
- Associative effects of fruit byproducts and natural prebiotic supplementation on animal performance, rumen microbiota changes, and enteric methane emissions in meat goats
- Characterisation of environmental calcium content as predictor of disease severity by the emergent plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa
- Decision support for healthy ecosystem services
- Development of novel technologies in integrated biting fly management via understanding physiological mechanisms of spatial and contact repellency
- Quantifying the risk of subclinical infections in ornamental fish to introduce new disease threats for fisheries and aquaculture
- 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)