Projet international multipartenaire FALAH

Démarrage d’un nouveau projet FALAH (Family farming, lifestyle and health). Pour la première fois depuis sa création l’université est lauréate d’un appel à projets très sélectif du schéma directeur pour la recherche et l’innovation « Horizon 2020 » (plus communément appelé H2020) de la commission européenne. L’objectif principal de ce projet est de créer et animer un réseau d’équipes de recherche opérant dans la région du Pacifique et constitué de chercheurs, d’enseignants-chercheurs et doctorants qui ont un intérêt commun pour la sécurité alimentaire et ses liens directs ou indirects avec l’environnement, la nutrition et la santé. Le but final du projet est de promouvoir et de redynamiser l’agriculture familiale afin d’améliorer la santé des populations dans le Pacifique et d’assurer la sécurité alimentaire dans un contexte de transformations sociales et économiques rapides et de changements climatiques dont les effets sont particulièrement néfastes pour les populations des îles du Pacifique.

Financement Union Européenne, H2020, programme RISE

https://unc.nc/lunc-decroche-un-financement-europeen-horizon-2020-de-plus-de-150-millions-cfp-sur-4-ans/projet-falah/

FALAH (Family farming, lifestyle and health) is a multidisciplinary project focused mainly on family farming and food in the Pacific Islands. Due to the close relationship between agriculture and food, the project is structured into three complementary scientific components. The scientific results of the research work carried out in the two thematic work packages (food and agriculture) will largely feed into the third working group based on knowledge exchange and communication. The project involves some fifteen multidisciplinary teams at local, regional and international networks. This network-networking project mobilizes researchers and teaching-researchers from Europe and partners from Vanuatu, Fiji, Salomon, New-Caledonia and Australia. During this project, three times phases are planned at different levels between 2020, 2012 and 2022. In each phase, joint meetings in the form of workshops or conferences are planned for the work packages. At the same time, common areas of experimentation / exploration for future research are planned on the Pacific Fields of application (Fiji, Solomon, Vanuatu and NC). The secondments of the members of the scientific teams are defined on the basis of these joint meetings. The main objective is to build a network of research teams operating in the Pacific Islands that have a common interest in food security and its direct or indirect relationship with the environment, lifestyle and health. The final goal is to promote and revitalise family agriculture to improve the health of Pacific populations and ensure food security in the context of rapid social and economic transformations and climate change, which effect are particularity harmful to Pacific islands.