News archive 2016
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Bird flu confirmed in commercially-farmed birds in the Netherlands
- On the night of Friday 25 November 2016, Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) confirmed an outbreak of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) on a duck... -
Less plastic in stomachs of fulmars
- Plastic marine litter, both industrial granules and consumer wastes decline slowly but with certainty. For some years, this tendency was already... -
Minister Schultz visits mangrove forest restoration project in Indonesia
- Dutch Minister of Infrastructure and Environment Schultz van Haegen visited a large-scale mangrove restoration project in Indonesia. The coastal zone... -
‘We need a new approach for better soil’
- ‘Dutch agricultural soils are not future-proof’ was a widely accepted statement at the final meeting of the Public Private Partnership... -
Lisa Becking's story on what inspires her to be a scientist
- A beautiful video was published on the website of "Spark of Science" in which Dr. Lisa Becking shows what inspires her to do research in her... -
MARVIN™ technology saves agriculture & horticulture time and money
- Four hundred thousand seedlings, nearly half of what a plant grower of, say, young tomato plants, produces in one season; this is the amount that... -
Workshop ‘gene editing’
- On October 14 this year, the initiative group sustainable breeding (Initiatiefgroep Duurzame Fokkerij) organised a stakeholder workshop about... -
‘Virtual adviser’ shows farmers and foresters the path to innovation
- Results from scientific research into agriculture and forestry should be translated faster into innovative practices according to the European... -
Making horticulture in the Middle East more sustainable
- Two research centres in the Middle East are planning to lift greenhouse horticulture to a higher sustainability level. It will make a substantial... -
Vegetables from Mars awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science
- Mars soil researcher Wieger Wamelink has been awarded the 2016 Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs prize for science. He was awarded the prize during the...