Animal Production Systems Group
Research of the Animal Production Systems Group focuses on unravelling the complexity of concerns in livestock systems and exploring trade-offs and synergies of innovations regarding environmental impact, animal welfare, and economic viability, to design a more sustainable future.
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Do animals have a role in future food systems?
Animals can convert leftovers from arable land and grass resources into valuable food and other ecosystem services. By converting these biomass streams, animals recycle nutrients into the food system that otherwise would have been lost for food production, thereby contributing to a circular food system.
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A future-proof diet with future foods - Insects, seaweed, microalgae and cultured meat are seen as tomorrow’s food. Research published in Nature Sustainability by Wageningen University... -
Appointment of Friedhelm Taube as a professor at Wageningen University & Research - Professor Friedhelm Taube has been appointed special professor Grass-based dairy farming at Wageningen University & Research. The special chair,... -
Preventing different types of foot lesions can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy sector - Pim Mostert et al. published their study open access, in which a dynamic stochastic simulation model was combined with life cycle assessment. It shows... -
Imke de Boer receives EAAP Leroy Fellowship award - At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) in Dubrovnik (Croatia), Imke de Boer received the Leroy Fellowship...
Activity
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Resemeet 24 January - Thursday 24 January we organise a Resemeet in which Judith will present her thesis results, and Dagmar and Marise will present their thesis proposals -
International Advanced Course “Environmental Impact Assessment of Livestock Systems” - After two successful editions, we are ready for a new group of enthusiastic and motivated students. This third edition of the course...
Latest publications
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Making the most of imperfect data: a critical evaluation of standard information collected in farm household surveys
Experimental Agriculture (2018). - ISSN 0014-4797 - 21 p.
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What is animal happiness?
Annals of the New York Academy Of Sciences (2018). - ISSN 0077-8923
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Intensification and upgrading dynamics in emerging dairy clusters in the East African highlands
Sustainability 10 (2018)11. - ISSN 2071-1050
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Production, partial cash flows and greenhouse gas emissions of simulated dairy herds with extended lactations
Animal (2018). - ISSN 1751-7311 - 10 p.
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LiGAPS-Beef, a mechanistic model to explore potential and feed-limited beef production 3: model evaluation
Animal (2018). - ISSN 1751-7311 - 11 p.