News Wageningen University & Research
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Researchers design forecast system for droughts during a season - Researchers have laid the basements for a forecast system to foresee the drought impacts a few months ahead. This system will make it possible to take... -
Ten interventions for speeding up global approach to food losses and waste - During the international Reduction of Food Loss and Waste conference in Vatican City the World Resources Institute launched The report The Reducing... -
3D technology helps dairy farmers identify sick cows - Dairy farmers need to identify sick cows as quickly as possible so that can give them the right treatment in time. To help farmers do this, PhD... -
Future of Urban Farming Series: Discovering the potential of integrated greenhouses - On the 6 November the first lecture of the Future of Urban Farming Series took place. This is part of the Urban Greenhouse Challenge in collaboration... -
Millions for research in vertical agriculture, animal welfare and water management in Wageningen - Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is to receive more than €8 million from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and participating bodies for... -
ECSens wins 4TU Impact Challenge - ECSens has won the 4TU Impact Challenge. The start-up from the University of Twente designs sensitive sensors for a faster diagnosis of cancer. This... -
Live-in bacteria protect plants against infections - Micro-organisms living inside plant roots team up to boost the plant's growth and tolerance to stress. An international research team led by the... -
Three WU women PhD candidates awarded by Storm-van der Chijs Fund at Gender-SMART afternoon - Three most talented female WU PhD candidates Eva Johan, Lucie Sovová and Julia Krug, all international PhD candidates, were awarded on 29 Oct... -
Palm oil industry to jointly develop radar monitoring to detect deforestation - Ten major palm oil producers and buyers are collaborating in the development of a new, publicly available radar-based forest monitoring system known... -
First observation ever of a spontaneously matured female European eel - For the first time in history, scientists have observed a spontaneously matured female European eel. She was caught in 2002 and has since lived in the...