Agri & Food Projects
On this webpage you find our current projects in the field of healthy and delicious food and sustainable food chains. In the menu, completed projects from the past three years have been archived. Want to more about our projects and possibilities?
Ongoing Agri & Food projects
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Quality standard for Colombian avocado
Global demand for avocado's is increasing. Colombia is a relatively new sourcing area of Hass avocados. The experiences with quality of Colombian... -
Optimizing plant based protein yield and quality in the post-harvest chain
To prevent worldwide protein shortages it is important to optimize the recovery methods of proteins from new plant based biomass sources. The effects... -
Environmental consequences of adopting circularity at different spatial scales
PhD project by Ben van Selm. Circular food systems are increasingly seen as an important pathway to a sustainable food system. Closing cycles at a... -
New technologies to reduce postharvest losses in the European fruit & vegetable chain
Postharvest losses in the European fruit & vegetable chain can be reduced. We identified new technological solutions with regard to preserving... -
The best storage for a new pear variety
Cepuna COV is a new pear variety. Some of the benefits mentioned for this pear are sweetness, freshness, juiciness, and firmness. We are investigating... -
CHAMPION – Developing new circular materials from safe bio-based building blocks
The Bio-based Industries (BBI) project CHAMPION aims to develop new, safe, bio-based circular performance materials with well-defined end-of-life... -
COVID-19 and the effects on Dutch consumers’ food waste behaviour
Wageningen Food & Biobased Research started a research project in collaboration with the Netherlands Nutrition Centre to investigate the effects... -
Plasma 4 Hygiene
The Plasma 4 Hygiene project aims at the development of plasma technology for application in the food industry in a multidisciplinary project... -
Molecular contamination in recycled plastic film from different collection methods
Post-consumer plastic waste is collected and recycled in different ways. In this project the difference in molecular contamination (mainly odour) has... -
Hydrogen from seawater
Offshore production of hydrogen using renewable electricity offers many opportunities for the future energy system. In the seawater-to-hydrogen...
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GreenCHAINge - Sustainable chains fruit & vegetables
The objective of this project is to make chains more intelligent with a primary focus on quality control. The smart chain concept introduced by... -
Plant Meat Matters
A next generation meat analogues based on plant proteins, that is the aim of the Public Private Partnership Plant Meat Matters coordinated by...