Longreads Wageningen University & Research
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In search of smart climate solutions
- Wageningen could easily acquire a global reputation as the leading university for climate questions. Its holistic approach means that Wageningen... -
Adaptation is in our DNA
- The flood barrier is closed. The Delta Works are completed. Zeeland is safe. With these words Queen Beatrix opened the Easter Scheldt storm surge... -
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... -
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...