Our projects
Below we show our current projects in the field of social-economic research. Do you have questions about our projects or do you want to know more about the possibilities?
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Stunning captured wild sea fish for better animal welfare
- Due to societal developments, it is important that the fishing industry focuses on sustainable, socially acceptable and valued products and production... -
Environmental and social risks of agricultural trade flows
- The EU has developed various types of supply chain legislations to prevent negative impacts, and support climate neutrality and sustainable... -
Safe Seaweed by Design
- Safe Seaweed by Design develops protocols to support the seaweed sector in monitoring and assessing safety. We conduct a pilot in Norway to test and... -
Developing Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules for floriculture
- Reliable insight into the environmental footprint of horticultural products provides great opportunities, such as comparable outcomes,... -
Towards a sustainable, peat-free casing soil enriched with biostimulants for the mushroom sector
- Peat use in mushroom cultivation is associated with a large ecological foot print. It can also be the carrier of bacterial and fungal pathogens... -
Climate resilient agri sourcing in Africa
- The effects of climate change will have a major impact on production and sourcing of agricultural commodities in many African countries.... -
Enhancing the resilience of most vulnerable groups in Ethiopia and Somaliland
- Young men such as Tesfaye in Ethiopia, and Mahmoud in Somaliland, and their friends are amongst the most vulnerable groups in their countries and were... -
Resilience as base for nature policy
- The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) is legally responsible for periodic policy analyzes and evaluations, namely: the Nature Outlook,... -
Research agenda increasing Food Systems' resilience
- The objective of this project is to create a mid-to-long term perspective on research questions for WUR on food system resilience. The ambition is to... -
Cow Act: Regional activation of Danone's sustainability strategy
- Key challenge: how to come to regional activation plans for milksheds in France, Spain and Poland to further develop and implement the sustainability...