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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How sustainable is the low-meat Lancet-diet? - A group of international scientists described the diet of the future in The Lancet. Prof Imke de Boer answers in De Volkskrant the question: how... -
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...
Activity
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Resemeet 21 March - Thursday 21 March we organise a Resemeet in which Vincent and Tim will present their thesis results and Stijn his internship results -
Mansholt lecture 2019 on protein transition - The fourth edition of the Mansholt Lecture will take place in Brussels on Wednesday 18 September 2019. This year the Mansholt Lecture focuses on the...
Latest publications
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The potential of future foods for sustainable and healthy diets
Nature Sustainability 1 (2018). - ISSN 2398-9629 - p. 782 - 789.
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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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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.