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New initiative to create global online database with animal production data from all over the world
- For the development of sustainable farming systems, people from all over the world need data. However, specific details on animal production in... -
The pros and cons of emerging technology in our food system
- Emerging technologies for food systems, however optimistic, all have some potential negative trade-offs. This is pointed out in a new international... -
Lenora Ditzler speaks at a United Nations panel on the SDGs
- From Brussels to New York with our very own Lenora Ditzler speaking at a United Nations panel on the SDGs. She shared the podium with... -
Plant calls the shots in pixel agriculture
- An undulating field of golden wheat, almost luminescent under the setting sun. Within hours, the same field has become a barren wasteland. All of the... -
For Latin American coffee growers, climate change is now
- EL DOVIO, Colombia – Alonso Carmona is running out of mountain. His coffee trees cover the highest reaches of his steeply sloping farm –... -
Planting trees on coffee fields and plantations can protect coffee plants from climate change
- Agroforestry in coffee fields, which means growing coffee under the shadow of trees, could contribute to the conservation of coffee plantations whose... -
Bright farmers help others navigate towards sustainability
- For agriculture to be able to feed the world in 2050, rapid improvements in sustainability are needed. That’s the message Rogier Schulte will be... -
Royal couple visits WUR Lighthouse farm in Ireland via hologram
- Hyper progressive agricultural companies that wish to produce food in a sustainable manner: Wageningen University & Research is working on a... -
Mixed and strip cultivation contribute to biodiversity
- Wageningen University & Research has started a new research project to discover to what extent different mixed and strip cultivations can... -
WUR helps design uniquely productive complex rice system in Indonesia
- A joint project by Wageningen University and Research (the Netherlands) and Brawijaya University (Indonesia) has resulted in cultivation methods which...