Longreads Wageningen University & Research
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How can we preserve the European dark bee in the Netherlands?
- A remarkable species is kept frozen at the Centre for Genetic Resources (CGN) of Wageningen University & Research: the European dark bee. In... -
Rethinking economics: putting human and nature wellbeing first
- The world is changing rapidly, and so too is the way we think about economics’. As climate change intensifies, biodiversity dwindles, and... -
Passive fishing between the windmills
- The Netherlands is building ever more wind farms in the North Sea, even in locations that were formerly designated as fishing areas. As a result, the... -
Inspecting pig welfare is a joint effort
- The laws safeguarding the welfare of pigs need to be monitored properly. This responsibility is carried out by a whole team of European welfare... -
The route to circular coffee capsules
- In 2023, Europeans used about 53 billion coffee capsules. That mound of coffee-ground-filled capsules is proving a serious challenge for waste... -
Downpours, heat and drought: livestock farmers need to adapt to weather extremes
- Prolonged droughts, heatwaves and heavy rains: farmers increasingly face weather extremes and need to adapt to a changing climate. Wageningen... -
AI doesn’t need to stay a black box
- Artificial Intelligence may yield impressive results, but its inner workings often remain a mystery. Is our only option to blindly trust these... -
Making ‘water and soil’ a guiding force in planning in nine rounds
- The effective application of the policy intention 'water and soil driven' in the Netherlands requires a different approach to Dutch planning; from... -
Getting Wageningen’s models and modellers to talk to each other
- Imagine a simple linear model to explain the relationship between two variables. Or a complex software-based mathematical framework to identify... -
CropMix: Driving the Transition to Agro-Ecological Crop Farming
- More crop-diverse systems in agriculture. This is the primary goal of CropMix, a five-year research project involving farmers, practical partners, and...