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Maarten Schutyser appointed personal professor of Drying and dense food processing
- The Board of Wageningen University & Research has appointed Prof. Dr. Ir. Maarten Schutyser as a personal professor of Drying and Dense Food... -
Agriculture is very thirsty
- Agriculture is the biggest consumer of fresh water in the world. And demand is set to rise, while availability falls. ‘Changes to the food... -
Students turn waste into protein
- A group of Wageningen students won the Rethink Waste international student challenge with their idea for making high-quality protein powder out of... -
Nepal team Youth Food Lab: “If we didn’t take action, we might have lost the wetland”
- Can harmful invasive plants be removed from wetlands to be used as biopesticides? This is just one of the many innovative ideas to come out of the... -
New photosynthesis institute in Wageningen
- By 2050, there will be nearly 10 billion mouths to feed worldwide. That is two billion more than now. This explosive population growth, along with... -
Improving insect rearing for food and feed
- Will we be eating pasta and bread made from insect flour in the future? We will if Europe has anything to do with it, as the European Union wants to... -
President of the Executive Board of WUR: Make clear food policy the priority area at elections
- Nature and agriculture risk losing out massively because of the political impasse and how problems are discussed. It is high time for clarity and new... -
Students protect fruit trees from frost damage with ‘birth control injection’
- Climate change brings about more frequent shifts between frost and warm days during winter, which is rather confusing for trees. Just as they're about... -
Agents of change in Africa
- Increasing food security in Africa will require far-reaching changes. The African Food Fellowship brings together frontrunners from the African food... -
Unequal trade perpetuates malnutrition – but there is another way
- No one in Africa should have to grow up without access to a healthy diet. Yet hunger and malnutrition persist in many areas. Globalisation of the food...