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Values, attitudes and preferences of young adults regarding organic farming and organic products (Project)

Even if the market of organic food follows an increasing trend the market share is only at 4.7% of all food expenditures. In order to increase the organic market shares different measures should be taken. One of these measures is to specifically address young adults. Thus, the main question this project aims to answer is how to motivate young adults to increase their demand for organic food....


Funding period: 2017 - 2019

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Vegan diet and bone health (Project)

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Funding period: 2017 - 2018

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Vegetable cucurbits for nutrition-sensitive home and school gardens in Southeast Asia (Project)

Ensuring adequate, safe and nutritious food for all its citizen is a high priority and longstanding agenda in the framework of ASEAN community building. In this aspect, however, it is important to distinguish between having sufficient food and having adequate nutrition. Micronutrient deficiency or hidden hunger affects more than 2 billion people worldwide (FAO 2008) and can exist in populations...


Funding period: 2014 - 2015

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Viruses in food - A double-edged sword with regard to food microbiological safety (Project)

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Funding period: 2021 - 2026

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Year-round availability of fruit and vegetables through resource-efficient processing and new marketing opportunities as instruments for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa - subproject 1 (Project)

The Research project FruVaSe, subproject 1 is implemented by the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences, the Makerere University in Uganda, the University of Nairobi and the University of Eldoret in Kenya and the Nelson-Mandela African Institution for Science and Technology in Tanzania. The project aims to counteract the lack of vitamins and minerals...


Funding period: 2018 - 2022

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Year-round availability of fruit and vegetables through resource-efficient processing and new marketing opportunities as instruments for rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa - subproject 2 (Project)

The FruVaSe project, subproject 2 of the Erfurt University of Applied Sciences is part of a research consortium with partners in Germany, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya, in which processing technologies are being developed to produce new, marketable products of selected fruits and leafy vegetables and to extend their shelf life. The University of Applied Sciences Erfurt will integrate the developed...


Funding period: 2018 - 2022

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Zoonoses and food safety along global supply chains. Coordination (Project)

So-called zoonoses, i.e. pathogens that are transmitted from animals to humans, can pose a significant risk to the public, when they are in food. Using the example of the flow of goods for the pig and poultry meat products possible damage scenarios are analyzed by the accidental contamination of food with pathogens. This will form the strategies to prevent disease outbreaks and to act and risk...


Funding period: 2013 - 2016

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Zoonoses and food safety along global supply chains. Subproject: Consumer protection: risks of infection by food associated pathogens (Project)

Zoonoses, which are infectious diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans, have become more important throughout the world in recent years. According to the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), major reasons for this are population growth, increasing mobility and changes in animal breeding and husbandry. The research project 'Zoonoses and food safety along global supply...


Funding period: 2013 - 2016

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Zoonoses and food safety along global supply chains. Subproject: Economic assessment of food safety with regard to zoonoses (Project)

Zoonoses, which are infectious diseases that are transmissible between animals and humans, have become more important throughout the world in recent years. According to the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), major reasons for this are population growth, increasing mobility and changes in animal breeding and husbandry. The research project 'Zoonoses and food safety along global supply...


Funding period: 2013 - 2016