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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Eat no meat in future? Imke de Boer presented at the Betweter Festival - Many research suggests we should eat no meat at all to save our planet. Imke de Boer explains at the Betweter festival why we should eat a bit of... -
APS participates in a project to improve the welfare of pig and dairy cattle - The newly started European project ClearFarm aims to exploit the new technological possibilities to improve animal welfare throughout the production... -
Imke de Boer explains how Kipster fits in a circular food system - Using only waste food as animal feed, is what they do at Kipster. This item (in Dutch) of RTL Z shows how, and Imke de Boer explains the science...
Latest publications
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The battle for biomass: A systematic review of food-feed-fuel competition
Global Food Security (2019). - ISSN 2211-9124
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SHARP-Indicators Database towards a public database for environmental sustainability
Data in Brief 27 (2019). - ISSN 2352-3409
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Linking the Gross National Happiness concept to smallholder farm level: an empirical application : an empirical application
Asian journal of agriculture and development 16 (2019)1. - ISSN 1656-4383 - 24 p.
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Reconciling global sustainability targets and local action for food production and climate change mitigation
Global environmental change : human and policy dimensions 59 (2019). - ISSN 0959-3780
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Hot topic: Automated assessment of reticulo-ruminal motility in dairy cows using 3-dimensional vision
Journal of Dairy Science 102 (2019)10. - ISSN 0022-0302 - p. 9076 - 9081.