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Het aantal agrarische bedrijven dat zijn producten afzet via een korte keten is in de periode 2017-2020 met ruim een kwart toegenomen. Dit blijkt uit de monitor Korte ketens van Wageningen University & Research in opdracht van het…

Most of the greenhouses in the Netherlands are so-called Venlo greenhouses. This construction is strong, allows a lot of light to pass through, is relatively inexpensive. The Venlo greenhouse is ideal for the Dutch climate conditions. But…

The Safe Seaweed by Design research project is launching a survey to determine the most important safety hazards in the seaweed industry. We invite you to help us by assessing a list of hazards and their impact on the safety of seaweed as…

Twelve international student teams will present their ideas to produce sustainable, healthy and affordable protein during the Grand Finale of the Rethink Protein Challenge organised by Wageningen University & Research (WUR) on 25…

“Technology and Society in Equilibrium” – a new sector portrait for Design Engineering Sciences - has been presented to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The report paints a picture of this unique sector which includes the…

Wageningen research enables faster development of new resilient varieties. Researchers from Wageningen University & Research have unravelled the onion genome. This will speed up the ability of plant breeders to develop new onion…

In 2020, the year of the SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus) outbreak, resistant bacteria were not found more often than before in patients in the Netherlands. For some types of bacteria, resistance even seems to have diminished in comparison to…

For the first time, scientists are able to continuously measure the bacterial fermentation in human intestines. This may lead to the effective and targeted preventive and curative treatment of chronic illnesses such as obesity, diabetes…

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and WUR, together with other partner agencies CARE-Nederland and KIT Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), today officially launched Pro-ARIDES – a 10-year, multi-country program that aims to increase…

Wageningen Bioveterinary Research (WBVR) has confirmed yet another introduction of bird flu in Dutch poultry. It concerns highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza at a bird pasture with poultry and water fowl in Vleuten.To prevent the virus…