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The summit comes halfway through the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition. This decade was announced five years ago as ‘the decade to focus on tackling food shortages and adapting food systems’, leaving only five years to meet the World…

Around 1,600 brand new bananas grown on Dutch soil were harvested yesterday in the greenhouse of Neder Banaan in Ede. In this greenhouse, researchers from WUR work together with Neder Banaan on new cultivation methods and banana varieties…

The Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) has appointed Ernst van den Ende as the Managing Director of the Animal Sciences Group (ASG) as of 1 January 2022. This appointment is in line with WUR's policy on talent…

Developing a 100% biobased binder for asphalt. That is the aim of a three-year research project of Wageningen Food & Biobased Research, H4A, Roelofs, AKC and TNO. The new binder will be based on biobased components from side streams…

Some Morpho butterflies live and fly high in the canopy of the Amazonian rainforest, and have evolved into highly-efficient gliding flyers. These results revealed by Wageningen University & Research and published in Science show that…

Last summer, some 190 dead porpoises washed ashore on the Dutch Wadden Sea Islands within just ten days. A remarkably high number, considering the annual average of about 600 stranded porpoises on the entire Dutch coast. During the past…

Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) investigated if and to what degree mortality and production data could signal possible outbreaks of avian influenza on duck farms. Research shows that a daily mortality rate of 0.3% is a reliable…

The worldwide synthetic biology competition, iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine), has closed for 2021. With a combination of laboratory experiments, computer simulations, and public outreach activities, the iGEM judges…

Wageningen topics are not immediately linked to the field of design. Nevertheless, the global demand for trained designers will increase in the near future, say Wageningen experts. Lecturer Marjolein Derks, for example, expects the new…

Larvae such as those of the black soldier fly (BSF) can form an important new link in circular agriculture. They grow well on unused waste streams such as catering waste or pig manure, which are currently not yet permitted to be fed to…