Projects of Livestock Research
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Closing the technocycle & circular houshould
- There is a demand for stable large scale availability of cheap and sustainable lignocellulosic biomass of the right quality at the right time and place. This requires understanding of biomass production (forests and agriculture) and the logic of biomass supply (local and long distance), taking into account the technologies and governance models needed. Furthermore, the environmental consequences and other trade-offs need to be considered. It is also important to consider how these lignocellulosic biomass should be best utilized to contribute to circular bio-based economy. -
Transition paths in Mexican Greenhouse Horticulture
- The general goal is describe transition paths for Mexican greenhouse horticulture. -
Animal Welfare Check Points
- The welfare of slaughteranimals is continuing under debate. The improvement of animal welfare is not only focussed on the transport itself, but also the loading, and unloading phases. Especially on the moments when animals are being handled and moved, they will undergo stress and possibly their welfare is decreased. In the AWCP project we aim to get insight in these Check Points. -
Trees4Future: clearinghouse for foresty research
- TREES4FUTURE will significantly enhance the ability of the European forestry sector to respond in a sustainable manner to increasing demands for wood products and services (including the preservation of forest biodiversity) within a context of ongoing climate change. TREES4FUTURE will achieve this aim by bringing together, for the first time, important forest communities (and their resources) which have barely interacted so far: from geneticists to environmentalists and from groups that work at tree or population level to organisations (including industrial concerns) which are active in forestry landscape or wood basins. -
Use of anti-biotics in intensive livestock production Brazil
- The project aims to identify the current use of antibiotics in pig and poultry production in Brazil. -
Resource efficiency Amsterdam
- Global, EU, national, and regional economies are more and more impacted by a growing shortage of natural and other resources, with cities located vulnerably at the end of the trade chains. In this project we will explore the potential of nature-based solutions and the concept of urban metabolism for urban water and waste management. -
Habitats and ecosystems
- With signing the Bern Convention and the Biodiversity treaty, the Netherlands has committed itself to an adequate protection of all endangered species on their territory and to improve and maintain their favourable conservation status. -
BO-Positieflijst gezelschapsdieren
- Dit project behelst de inschatting van risico's (diergezondheid/dierenwelzijn, letselschade, zoönose) van het houden van (exotische) zoogdieren als basis voor beleidsbeslissingen over plaatsing van diersoorten op de huisdierenlijst (voorheen positieflijst). -
Knowledge and research for mussel production (KOMPRO)
- A large proportion of mussel fisheries and mussel farming takes place in nature reserves. For this reason, mussel production is governed by strict rules. -
Project: Characterization and steering of a highly desirable though sporadic phenomenon in soils: the biological suppression of plant-parasitic nematodes with quarantine status
- Disease suppressiveness is a phenomenon by which soil micro-organisms suppresses the multiplication and proliferation of pathogens. This phenomenon is well-documented, but relatively rare and poorly understood. The latter is understandable as soils are mind-boggling biodiverse and complex. Aided by high throughput sequencing technologies and bioinformatics we begin to understand its functioning. In the TKI project we exploit state-of-the-art technologies to pinpoint the biological mechanism(s) that underlie native soil suppressiveness with regard to root-knot and cyst nematodes. By ‘learning from nature’ we intend to develop this sporadic phenomenon into a novel handle that could contribute to sustainable pathogen control in agro-ecosystems.