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.
Acting head
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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Wageningen team awarded Top Visionary title for their vision for the Dutch Food System 2050
- Wageningen researchers Imke de Boer, Evelien de Olde, Kawire Gosselink and their team have been selected as one of the top 10 “Visionaries"... -
Working together towards circular agriculture in the North of the Netherlands
- What do circular principles mean in practice? November 13 the project team organised an online kick-off workshop for the CAN-DO-IT project -
Wageningen team finalist for the Food System Vision Prize for their vision for the Dutch Food System 2050
- Wageningen researchers Imke de Boer and Evelien de Olde and their team are one of the ten finalists of the prestigious the Food System Vision Prize.... -
The Dutch food system in 2050: Healthy and circular
- How do we achieve a food system through which we can produce healthy food for everyone with respect for our planet and all humans and animals who live... -
From genome editing to insects: Food System Innovations – and how to get there
- An international group of almost fifty scientists identified 75 emerging innovations and has drawn up 8 action points with the aim of accelerating the...
Food System Vision submission
Activity
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Battle for Biomass: tackling tensions and trade-offs at the science-policy interface
A (Abigail) Muscat MSc
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Resemeet 22 April
- Thursday 22 April we organise a Resemeet in which Sanne will present her thesis results and Lieke and Gerwin their thesis proposals -
International online PhD course “A bio-based society: from principles to practice ”
- Our “take-produce-consume-discard” model of our current economic system is exhausting the resources of the planet. The online course... -
International online PhD course “A bio-based society: from principles to practice ”
Latest publications
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Examining the variables leading to apparent incongruity between antimethanogenic potential of tannins and their observed effects in ruminants—a review
Sustainability 13 (2021)5. - ISSN 2071-1050 - p. 1 - 24. -
Understanding transitions in farming systems and their effects on livestock rearing and smallholder livelihoods in Telangana, India
Ambio (2021). - ISSN 0044-7447 -
Providing live black soldier fly larvae (Hermetia illucens) improves welfare while maintaining performance of piglets post-weaning
Scientific Reports 11 (2021)1. - ISSN 2045-2322 -
Genotype-by-environment interaction in Holstein heifer fertility traits using single-step genomic reaction norm models
BMC Genomics 22 (2021)1. - ISSN 1471-2164 -
Maize–legume strip cropping effect on productivity, income, and income risk of farmers in northern Ghana
Agronomy Journal (2021). - ISSN 0002-1962