News 2023
News 2023
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Boulders bring new life
- The construction of offshore wind farms opens up opportunities for increasing marine biodiversity. Researchers at Wageningen Marine Research are... -
Heritage varieties: edible Dutch history
- What used to grow in your grandparents' vegetable garden? How did cucumbers taste 100 years ago? Many of the vegetables and grains that were once... -
UI GreenMetric: WUR most sustainable university for seventh consecutive time
- Wageningen University & Research (WUR) prolonged its first place on the 2023 UI GreenMetric ranking with a score of 9.5. That means that WUR has... -
Inspirerende gesprekken in podcastserie ‘Eerlijk gezegd’
- Onder de titel ‘Eerlijk gezegd’ introduceert WUR een nieuwe podcastserie waarin Inge Wallage, Corporate Director Communications &... -
We mustn’t ignore the time bomb of climate change and conflict in Africa
- People in Africa’s Sahel region are increasingly struggling with the impacts of climate change. There’s an urgent need for agriculture... -
Annemarie Wagemakers: ‘Health inequities caused by social conditions are unfair’
- How can we support people in a disadvantaged situation to become healthier? That is the central question in the participatory action research of... -
Joint manure fermenter may help reduce ammonia and greenhouse gas emissions
- Implementing a low-emission barn system, where sludge is removed daily to be fermented and stripped, could significantly reduce greenhouse and ammonia... -
Amazing peat
- Greenhouse gas emissions from peatlands account for 2-3% of total emissions in the Netherlands. That is a significant contribution, which is why... -
Alleen een genenbank die alles op orde heeft, is waardevol
- Genenbanken zijn de safe deposits van de wereld. De collecties zaden en planten zijn cruciaal voor voedselzekerheid, volksgezondheid en robuuste... -
Food waste in supermarkets down by 17.4% compared to 2018
- In 2022, supermarkets sold an average of 98.62% of the total amount of food that they offered. This means that 1.38% of their food did not reach...