News Wageningen University & Research
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From skating to taking a dip: will we only be able to swim the Frisian Elfstedentocht in the future?
- At the sight of the first snowflake, many a Dutchman eagerly anticipates the possibility of a Frisian Elfstedentocht skating marathon. This epic route... -
Valuable peatlands at risk of disappearing
- Peatlands are valuable ecosystems that store water and large quantities of carbon and that support high biodiversity. However, 20 percent of the... -
Virus disrupts sex routines of roundworms
- Viruses influence the sex life of the roundworm C. elegans. Male roundworms of this non-parasitic nematode species are less sexually attracted to... -
Plants can prepare for insect attack sequence
- Plants are under attack by a variety of insect species. They have defence mechanisms to deal with this, including chemicals or sturdier leaves. But... -
“Cannabis labels often wrong and misleading”
- The well-known Indica and Sativa labels that are used on cannabis products and form the basis for the information provided to users of medicinal... -
Shift in thinking required to prevent malnutrition worldwide
- Millions of people in Asia and Africa suffer not so much from a lack of food, but from a lack of healthy food. Simply put, fruits and vegetables are... -
How do we make sure that everyone has enough and healthy food?
- How do we ensure that everyone, everywhere in the world, has enough food and that this food is also healthy? And how do we make sure that we produce... -
Wageningen’s back-up vaccine performs well in tests
- Over the past year, the Virology, Bioprocess Engineering and Biochemistry research groups have successfully continued their work on a back-up COVID-19... -
Green Deal: diverse and uncertain farm net income impacts
- The European Commission launched an ambitious Green Deal roadmap aimed at making agriculture more environmentally sustainable, nature-inclusive and... -
Gold medals for 3 bachelor and 5 master programmes of WUR
- Each year, the weekly magazine Elsevier awards medals to study programmes that score high according to students themselves. This year, Wageningen...