Soured milk and Wagashi Gassiré are among the most consumed dairy products in Benin. However, the lack of respect for hygiene standards and the difficulties in preserving these perishable foodstuffs limit the availability of products of impeccable quality. The WALAC project aims to improve the production and preservation processes of these products for the benefit of rural women producers, local dairy companies and consumers. Interventions will be based on participatory research and development involving stakeholders in the dairy sector, with a particular focus on gender and sustainable development. FIND OUT MORE The cattle sector in Ecuador is facing an increase in the prevalence of infectious diseases, which has a strong impact on the local and national economy as well as on public health. The project aims to contribute to the control of diseases such as Brucellosis and Trypanosomiasis. It will be based on an innovative strategy aimed at setting up an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional platform with the objectives of centralising and disseminating the knowledge acquired, validating diagnostic, prevention and treatment tools, and identifying an appropriate and sustainable strategy for the control of these diseases. FIND OUT MORE In the current socio-economic context, the business models of the social economy are capable of providing concrete solutions to issues of general interest (social cohesion, social justice, democracy, housing, ecological and energy transition, territorial development). Created in 1992, the Chair in Social Economy at HEC-Liège has inspired the creation and funding of three new Chairs in Wallonia and Brussels. Their aim? To strengthen the capacity of universities to respond through their research, teaching and community service activities to the issues raised by the growth of the theme of social economy in the university landscape, as well as to consolidate the legitimacy of social enterprise models in the economic landscape of the region, in order to respond to the challenges of society. FIND OUT MORE The objective of the CATCH-BNI project is to develop innovative approaches for the slow and controlled conversion of ammonium to nitrate in soils for the optimal nutrition of target crops. In this project, scientists are investigating the incorporation of biological nitrification inhibitors (BNIs) into crop rotations as a mitigation strategy to slow down nitrification processes and retain ammonium in soils, as well as to increase soil nitrogen reserves for the following target crop. FIND OUT MORE The BIOFAIR project aims to understand the possible impacts of climate change on wheat production and to identify levers to anticipate the negative impacts of this change on plant productivity and the nutritional quality of cereal grains. Field studies will measure the impact of climate change on crop performance and provide recommendations for agricultural practices that allow for quality wheat production and the conservation of soil biodiversity and ecosystem services under projected climate change. FIND OUT MORE Researchers at ULiège have developed an innovative process that rethinks the manufacture of polyurethane (PU) foams without resorting to the highly toxic agents used by manufacturers. The process produces foams that are more durable and can be recycled more easily. PU foams have many applications, such as insulation in buildings. FIND OUT MORE The Katabata project, set up by researchers from the University of Liège, aims, for the first time, to measure the potential of the katabatic winds of southern Greenland in order to exploit them as a renewable and very high quality energy resource. Three wind turbines have been installed in the south of the territory and are already providing researchers with encouraging results. FIND OUT MORE 28 | ANNUAL REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT ULIÈGE | 2021 – 2022 29 | ANNUAL REPORT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AT ULIÈGE | 2021 – 2022
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