News of the Animal Production Systems Group
News
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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... -
How sustainable is the low-meat Lancet-diet?
- A group of international scientists described the diet of the future in The Lancet. Prof Imke de Boer answers in De Volkskrant the question: how... -
A future-proof diet with future foods
- Insects, seaweed, microalgae and cultured meat are seen as tomorrow’s food. Research published in Nature Sustainability by Wageningen University... -
Appointment of Friedhelm Taube as a professor at Wageningen University & Research
- Professor Friedhelm Taube has been appointed special professor Grass-based dairy farming at Wageningen University & Research. The special chair,... -
Preventing different types of foot lesions can reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the dairy sector
- Pim Mostert et al. published their study open access, in which a dynamic stochastic simulation model was combined with life cycle assessment. It shows... -
Imke de Boer receives EAAP Leroy Fellowship award
- At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) in Dubrovnik (Croatia), Imke de Boer received the Leroy Fellowship... -
Hannah van Zanten receives Veni-grant
- Hannah received the NWO Talent Scheme grant to further develop her research on the role of animals in a circular food system.