Division of Biotechnology and Plant Health
Diversity Oats - A more sustainable Norwegian oat industry by increased genetic diversity and diversified food products
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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.
Climate change is becoming an increasingly important pressure on biodiversity, which adds to the burden of other drivers of loss of biodiversity causing negative effects on ecosystems and species
BOLD LEAP will provide an independent systems-based evaluation of Jawahir’s post-release pathway in Morocco. Jawahir is a drought-tolerant durum wheat variety released in 2023 following more than a decade of research and participatory evaluation with support from the BOLD Project, and seed multiplication is now underway towards commercial production.