Projects and publications by Wageningen Livestock Research

Current projects

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  Positive Affective States in Pigs and Dairy Cattle: Assessment and Impact on Resilience

  February 1, 2025 - By George Troupakis
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  Optimizing lactation length for dairy cows

  January 1, 2025 - By Jan Aarts
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  Sustainable future of the dairy sector in Ethiopia

  November 1, 2024 - PhD project of Godadaw Demlew. Despite the growth potential, Ethiopia’s dairy sector faces challenges from production system-specific constraints and systemic barriers. Factors such as religious fasting periods, climate change, household income, and market and consumer preference dynamics affect the dairy value chain. This study will develop scenarios for a sustainable future dairy sector, paying attention to both environmental footprint and food and nutrition security.
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  Understanding dairy value chains in low- and middle-income contexts

  November 1, 2024 - PhD project by Zebrhe Teklay. Smallholder farmers and traders predominate in dairy markets in most low and middle income countries, operating under a high level of uncertainty. Chain actors focus on cash-based short-term profits instead of fostering long-term relationships and innovations. This research aims to generate insights and policy-relevant evidence on designing inclusive, safe, and demand-driven dairy value chains in Ethiopia.
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  AquaServ

  April 1, 2024 - The overarching objectives of AQUASERV are to bring together, enhance, integrate and customise aquaculture related Research Infrastructure facilities through the provision of transnational access (TNA), to significantly further scientific advance and promote and facilitate the implementation of European Common Fisheries Policy, the Farm to Fork Strategy, the Sustainable Blue Economy and the European Green Deal.
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  Global Methane Genetics initiative

  January 1, 2024
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  OptiLac

  July 1, 2023 - By Brigitte de Bruijn
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  Breeding Black Soldier Fly for healthier and sustainable aquaculture feed

  April 1, 2023 - The aim of this project is to understand the genetic variation of Black Soldier Fly (BSF) and use this knowledge to breed a healthy, efficient, high performing population and improve the production and nutritional quality of BSF.
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  BRIDGE + : Building Rural Income through Inclusive Dairy Growth in Ethiopia

  January 1, 2023 - BRIDGE+ aims to support ‘take off’ for the dairy value chain, supporting the introduced innovations to create systemic transformation.
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  EEL SUPPORT

  January 1, 2023 - With our international consortium of partners, we aim to force breakthroughs in the propagation of eel in captivity. EEL SUPPORT will use available networking tools to jointly share the state-of-the-art, to identify knowledge gaps, to develop collaborative strategies to fill the gaps.