Longreads Wageningen University & Research
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Soil navigator: a tool for optimising soil usage - The soil has a key role to play in terms of combatting climate change, feeding 10 billion people in 2050, and the preservation and recovery of... -
Recycling water in the land of the dykes - The Netherlands is increasingly facing lengthy periods of drought due to climate change. This is leading to water shortages and salinization.... -
10 ways to improve food choice interventions in real-life settings - Over the past decades a lot of behavioural interventions to stimulate healthy and/or sustainable food choices and consumption among consumers have... -
Data governance - “Governance” is a term you increasingly come across in relation to data management within organisations, but perhaps more importantly in... -
Financial products undermine resilience farming regions - How resilient are farming regions? Why is agricultural policy geared to maintaining the status quo? -
Personalized diets - New research aims to show how diets can be personalized. This can help against a range of obesity-related diseases. -
Marten Scheffer: "Nature is extraordinarily resilient" - Marten Scheffer is the expert in the field of resilience. “There is a kind of optimal level of challenge at which you are at your most... -
Nature, because the city is worth it - Nature is something that we need desperately in cities for things like draining rainwater and tempering the heat. Trees provide cleaner air, bees... -
Seven Reasons to Invest in a Green City - In urban areas, green space often is a scarce commodity. Greenery in the city disappears for example through new housing, the paving of squares with... -
Fishing is making choices, every day anew - Geert Hoekstra has been working as a fisheries economist at Wageningen Economic Research, part of Wageningen University & Research, since January...