Laboratory of Plant Production Systems
The vision of Plant Production Systems is to integrate biological knowledge to analyse and design sustainable production systems for crops (including integration with livestock), focused on resource use efficiency and equitable management of natural resources.
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Publication of the Month
Participatory assessment of sustainability and resilience of three specialized farming systems
There is a need for participatory methods that simultaneously assess agricultural sustainability and resilience at farming
system level, as resilience is needed to deal with shocks and stresses on the pathways to more sustainable systems. We present the
Framework of Participatory Impact Assessment for Sustainable and Resilient FARMing systems (FoPIA-SURE-Farm). FoPIA-SUREFarm investigates farming system functioning, dynamics of main indicators, and specifies resilience for different resilience capacities, i.e., robustness, adaptability, and transformability...
Interesting article(s)
Surviving on Half a Hectare of Land: An Introduction to the Issues Surrounding Smallholder Farming in Malawi
Not everyone dealing with agricultural issues in Malawi appreciates the fact that smallholders in this country face challenges which are unique in Africa. No other country in Sub-Saharan Africa has population densities of up to 250 ...
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CGIAR expert appointed as WUR special professor Agriculture Climate Impacts and Adaptation
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TABLE launch event: Should the future of food be global or local?
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The fragile promises of regenerative farming
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Thesis topic: The effects of climate change extremes on the physiology of potato
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Thesis topic: Assessment of physiological age of seed potatoes and the subsequent crop performance
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Basket of options : Unpacking the concept
Outlook on Agriculture (2021). - ISSN 0030-7270 -
Farmer research networks in principle and practice
International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability (2021). - ISSN 1473-5903 -
Enhancing sustainable potato production—a case study in northern china
Agronomy 11 (2021)7. - ISSN 2073-4395