Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health
SiEUGreen: Sino-European innovative green and smart cities
Resource-efficient urban agriculture for multiple benefits – contribution to the EU-China Urbanisation Partnership
Projects
NIBIO is a project driven research institute and collects approximately 400 million NOK annually in project funding from both national and international sources. A lot of activity is carried out through EU and EEA-projects and we also participate in research projects in Asia, Africa and Latin America. NIBIO coordinates several large international projects with a particular focus on food security and climate change. The list of projects is not complete.
Division of Environment and Natural Resources
Greenhouse gas emissions from biogas digestate applications to rice production systems
Digestate, organic residues from biogas production, are good fertilizers. However, application of digestate can stimulate greenhouse gas production. Greenhouse gas emission from rice production is particularly problematic, because rice is grown flooded. This project, RICEDIG aims to find how digestate application affect greenhouse gas emissions in flooded rice production systems.
Restoration and prognosis of PEAT formation in fens
In many European counries, drained peatlands are being re-wetted to recreate natural biodiversity and store carbon. It is not known how effective this is, and this project, REPEAT, is trying to answer it.