Animal Production Systems Group
Research of the Animal Production Systems Group focuses on unravelling the complexity of concerns in livestock systems and exploring trade-offs and synergies of innovations regarding environmental impact, animal welfare, and economic viability, to design a more sustainable future.
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Do animals have a role in future food systems?
Animals can convert leftovers from arable land and grass resources into valuable food and other ecosystem services. By converting these biomass streams, animals recycle nutrients into the food system that otherwise would have been lost for food production, thereby contributing to a circular food system.
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Start pilot cultivating rice on peatland
- Is polder rice a feasible circular alternative for cows on peatland? A pilot experiment started this week. On May 22nd, researchers from Wageningen... -
Raimon Ripoll-Bosch leader of new FAO Ecosystem Services group
- FAO has appointed our researcher Raimon Ripoll-Bosch as one of the leaders of the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) technical... -
PhD course Fundamentals of Animal Emotion
- From Monday March 6 to 8, 2023 the PhD course Fundamentals of Animal Emotion was held in Wageningen for the third time. -
Solar panels and sheep are a good fit
- APS-graduate Emma Kampherbeek published her thesis work done in California in Applied Animal Behaviour. She found that sheep graze more in plots with... -
Solar farm sheep graze more
- Research into the combination of sheep and solar panels, for which master's student Emma Kampherbeek travelled to California, earned her a publication...
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Species Enriched Grass–Clover Pastures Show Distinct Carabid Assemblages and Enhance Endangered Species of Carabid Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Compared to Continuous Maize
Land (2023), Volume: 12, Issue: 4 - ISSN 2073-445X -
Circularity in Europe strengthens the sustainability of the global food system
Nature Food (2023), Volume: 4 - ISSN 2662-1355 - p. 320-330. -
A Survey of Calf Housing Facilities Pre-Weaning, Management Practices and Farmer Perceptions of Calf Welfare on Irish Dairy Farms
Animals (2023), Volume: 13, Issue: 6 - ISSN 2076-2615 -
Exploring synchrony of lying on commercial dairy farms in relation to management
Applied Animal Behaviour Science (2023), Volume: 262 - ISSN 0168-1591 -
Evaluation of LiGAPS-Beef to assess extensive pasture-based beef production in three agro-ecological regions in South Africa
Livestock Science (2023), Volume: 271 - ISSN 1871-1413