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Scientists propose a new method for assessing progress toward the Paris Agreement's climate goal - limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to achieve 1.5 OC above preindustrial…

For the development of sustainable farming systems, people from all over the world need data. However, specific details on animal production in certain parts of the world are either lacking, inaccessible or outdated. The Circular Food…

Florian Muijres has been awarded a prestigious grant to study what the mating dance of malaria mosquitoes in a swarm looks like. In this research, Muijres will collaborate with colleagues from the USA, Belgium and Burkina Faso. The study…

Iceberg lettuce, oakleaf lettuce, romaine, and all other lettuces that we eat nowadays, descend from wild plants that were modified 6000 years ago in the Caucasus so that plant oil could be harvested from the seeds. After the ancient…

Economic commodities such as fuels, electricity and chemicals are increasingly being produced sustainably. This is a good step towards a circular economy. ChainCraft is working hard to become a major player in this.The spin-off of…

Abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing nets floating around at sea and washing up on beaches in the Arctic and North-East Atlantic Ocean regions are a persistent problem. Based on the findings of a new study by Wageningen…

Turf producers use underground nets to support grass growth. Removing the nets from fully grown turf is difficult, so the material often remains in the soil, causing pollution. Wageningen Food & Biobased Research and their industrial…

A comprehensive toolkit was recently developed that allows regions to create a regional strategy for the development of the bio-economy step by step. The toolkit was developed in the EU project POWER4BIO, in which Wageningen Food &…

The Independent Food Systems Summit Dialogues (FSSD) are part of the run-up to the UN summit on food systems. This particular dialogue addresses climate adaptation in agriculture, in which a global perspective is crucial. This dialogue…

Looking at food security from the perspective of supply and availability reveals a system that is actually quite resilient. Although food security in the Netherlands is not immune to disruptions, it can certainly be qualified as robust.…