Highlighted Impact Stories

Farmers all over the world try to optimise their yield of wheat, rice, maize, grain legumes or tuber crops. However, they often have lower yields than they wish or target. Wageningen University & Research has a tool that aims to change this: the Global Yield Gap Atlas. Companies, governments and non-profit organisations are making good use of it.

Food security dashboard

The war in Ukraine is affecting the food market, but how exactly, and for how long, is still difficult to predict. Wageningen University & Research has now conducted a preliminary analysis into this impact. One product that has resulted from the analysis is a free and openly accessible dashboard where all the relevant data can be found. “It’s pretty unique that all that data is accessible through a single, interactive website,” says Data Architect Eugene Westerhof.

Detecting disease with computer vision

Wageningen researcher Ronald Petie used computer vision to detect diseases in cows as part of two projects: SensingPotential and Digitool. It turns out that, like in humans, a runny nose is a sign of possible illness in cows too. “The more photographs of cow heads we feed into the algorithm, the better it learns to recognise the data and the more accurate its predictions.”