Longreads Wageningen University & Research
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Inspecting pig welfare is a joint effort
- The laws safeguarding the welfare of pigs need to be monitored properly. This responsibility is carried out by a whole team of European welfare... -
The route to circular coffee capsules
- In 2023, Europeans used about 53 billion coffee capsules. That mound of coffee-ground-filled capsules is proving a serious challenge for waste... -
Downpours, heat and drought: livestock farmers need to adapt to weather extremes
- Prolonged droughts, heatwaves and heavy rains: farmers increasingly face weather extremes and need to adapt to a changing climate. Wageningen... -
AI doesn’t need to stay a black box
- Artificial Intelligence may yield impressive results, but its inner workings often remain a mystery. Is our only option to blindly trust these... -
Making ‘water and soil’ a guiding force in planning in nine rounds
- The effective application of the policy intention 'water and soil driven' in the Netherlands requires a different approach to Dutch planning; from... -
Getting Wageningen’s models and modellers to talk to each other
- Imagine a simple linear model to explain the relationship between two variables. Or a complex software-based mathematical framework to identify... -
CropMix: Driving the Transition to Agro-Ecological Crop Farming
- More crop-diverse systems in agriculture. This is the primary goal of CropMix, a five-year research project involving farmers, practical partners, and... -
Financing Transitions: How Can Financial Institutions help pave the Way to a Greener Economy?
- The focus on climate change and sustainability seems to fade into the background in many European countries. The political climate is unfavorable,... -
The rise of LCA-based ecolabels: a new standard for sustainable food choices
- Imagine walking through a supermarket, choosing between soy yogurt, cow’s milk yogurt, and oat yogurt. Which has the lowest ecological... -
Water lentils: sustainable vegetable of the future, approved in the EU
- Water lentils, a protein-rich and sustainably cultivated plant, has now been officially approved as a vegetable in Europe. It could make a significant...