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News and calendar
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Circular agriculture calls for practical steps
- Dutch Minister Schouten introduced ‘circular agriculture’ two years ago. A future perspective for sustainable agriculture in the... -
Plant calls the shots in pixel agriculture
- An undulating field of golden wheat, almost luminescent under the setting sun. Within hours, the same field has become a barren wasteland. All of the... -
Wageningen team finalist for the Food System Vision Prize for their vision for the Dutch Food System 2050
- Wageningen researchers Imke de Boer and Evelien de Olde and their team are one of the ten finalists of the prestigious the Food System Vision Prize.... -
PET bottles can benefit from clean recyclates
- Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a widely used packaging material for beverage bottles. More and more recycled PET (rPET) is used for the... -
Power to the pellet: Challenges in the circular agriculture
- To replace cereals in animal feed with less sticky co-products from circular agriculture, there is an urgent need to find out how animal feed pellets... -
The use of biomass for circular biobased materials and chemicals
- The Dutch Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER) advice on the use of biomass is a good step towards the high-quality use of biomass.... -
Developing new circular materials from safe bio-based building blocks
- The BBI project CHAMPION, which started in June 2020, will develop a large number of new, safe biobased materials for circular applications. This new... -
Try-out circular farming on the Farm of the Future
- Damage to nature and the environment makes the way we currently produce our food unsustainable. On the recently opened Farm of the Future, Wageningen... -
Re-rooting the Dutch food system: from more to better
- What does a regenerative and nourishing food system in 2050 look like? This was the challenge for those participating in the Food Systems Vision Prize... -
Recycled plastic film has an odour, regardless how you collect it
- Post-consumer plastic packaging waste can be kept separate at home (separate collection) or later be recovered from the municipal solid waste (MSW)....