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Today, 60% of all clothing is still made from fibres derived from fossil fuels. That needs to change. The Laudes Foundation asked Wageningen University & Research (together with the Institute for Sustainable Communities and the World…

The infected greylag goose came from a hobby farm, where 6 young geese died. The remaining 13 adult geese were not sick and were sampled by the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA). In these samples, no avian influenza…

The spores of powdery mildew like moist conditions. They germinate best at a relative humidity (RH) of 80%. The mycelium of powdery mildew actually thrives at a lower RH. This makes the strawberry an excellent host for the pathogen. A…

Divided in half by its history, the island comprises the nation of Papua New Guinea in the East with the West, being part of Indonesia. Indonesian New Guinea, previously known as Irian Jaya, and currently as Tanah Papua, hosts extensive…

Monitoring shared resourcesElinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize in Economics for demonstrating that humans can create rules and institutions that permit sustainable management of shared resources without resorting to privatization or…

The study domain, the Ebro Basin in Catalonia, is not randomly chosen explains Oscar Hartogensis, project leader on behalf of the Meteorology and Air Quality (MAQ) at Wageningen University & Research (WUR). "The basin stretches from…

Extreme weather events can have a major social and economic impact. The storm damage in The Netherlands in mid-June, for example, amounted to around 37 million euros, while the damage caused by the recent floods is also expected to be…

According to Fresco the main summit in September should not be the end but merely a beginning of an ongoing conversation. In this continuous dialogue, there is no sense to talk about one food system, because there are ‘tens of thousands…

A group of students from the Academic Consultancy Training course enthusiastically started working on an advice for her. Based on this advice, Kestrel improved the soil and planted over 2500 native trees and bushes.Moreover, the students…

Researchers have used new breeding techniques to develop a chicory variety that no longer contains bitter compounds. Katarina Cankar, plant researcher at Wageningen University & Research: “In the European CHIC project, we are working…