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.
Chair holder
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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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... -
Look for the optimal mix of different sustainability strategies
- How do we make food systems - from farm to fork - more sustainable? That is the central question in today's agriculture. All kinds of different... -
WUR is competing for Rockefeller's Food System Vision Prize
- Two teams from Wageningen University & Research are competing for the Food System Vision Prize of the Rockefeller Foundation. Since November 1319...
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Food Systems Vision submission
Latest publications
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Cow and herd-level risk factors associated with mobility scores in pasture-based dairy cows
Preventive Veterinary Medicine 181 (2020). - ISSN 0167-5877 -
Effects of proximity to markets on dairy farming intensity and market participation in Kenya and Ethiopia
Agricultural Systems 184 (2020). - ISSN 0308-521X -
Bioconversion efficiencies, greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions during black soldier fly rearing – A mass balance approach
Journal of Cleaner Production 271 (2020). - ISSN 0959-6526 -
Black soldier fly larvae show a stronger preference for manure than for a mass‐rearing diet
Journal of Applied Entomology (2020). - ISSN 0931-2048 -
Effects of Dutch livestock production on human health and the environment
Science of the Total Environment 737 (2020). - ISSN 0048-9697