News Wageningen University & Research
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Reduction in nitrogen deposition leads to biodiversity recovery
- In the meadows around Wageningen, which have been the subject of intensive research since the 1950s, plant diversity declined sharply between 1950 and... -
Ingrid Boas Wins Wrigley Fairchild Award for her Critical Paper on Big Data
- This year's prestigious Wrigley Fairchild Award for best paper in the journal Geographical Review goes to Dr Ingrid Boas, Associate Professor in the... -
Enhanced conditionality: is it worth the payment?
- Under the European Commission’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), farmers can receive basic payments for each hectare of their land if they... -
Vici-grant for Wageningen research on poverty reduction
- Scientist Ewout Frankema of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has been awarded a Vici-grant this year for his research on poverty reduction... -
AGROS project: Cucumber growers share their vision on autonomous greenhouse cultivation
- Over the last few years, there has been a considerable amount of interest in the concept of 'autonomous cultivation' in greenhouse horticulture. The... -
CoronaEspresso: home testing for the Coronavirus using coffee cups
- It is now possible to turn a coffee cup into a cheap and sustainable COVID-19 test device. This was demonstrated by research conducted by Vittorio... -
A message of hope
- If you are purely optimistic about the acceleration of the sustainability process in the food system, then you are only thinking that it will all work... -
The DNA of lettuce unravelled: in 6000 years from weed to beloved vegetable
- Iceberg lettuce, oakleaf lettuce, romaine, and all other lettuces that we eat nowadays, descend from wild plants that were modified 6000 years ago in... -
“Food systems in West Africa are resilient, but also vulnerable”
- Together with his colleagues, researcher Bart de Steenhuijsen Piters of Wageningen Economic Research examined the resilience of food systems in West... -
Here's how sustainable fatty acids boost the circular economy
- Economic commodities such as fuels, electricity and chemicals are increasingly being produced sustainably. This is a good step towards a circular...