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Wageningen University & Research is a collaboration between Wageningen University and the Wageningen Research foundation.
That is the mission of Wageningen University & Research. A staff of 6,500 and 10,000 students from over 100 countries work everywhere around the world in the domain of healthy food and living environment for governments and the business community-at-large.
The strength of Wageningen University & Research lies in its ability to join the forces of specialised research institutes and the university. It also lies in the combined efforts of the various fields of natural and social sciences. This union of expertise leads to scientific breakthroughs that can quickly be put into practice and be incorporated into education. This is the Wageningen Approach.
The scientific quality of Wageningen University & Research is affirmed by the prominent position we occupy in international rankings and citation indexes.
The domain of Wageningen University & Research consists of three related core areas:
- Food and food production
- Living environment
- Health, lifestyle and livelihood
Wageningen University & Research has branches all over The Netherlands and abroad. A large number of lecturers, researchers and other employees are based at Wageningen Campus.
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Displaying 61 - 65 of 209Simulation of small ruminant system productivity in the humid tropics of southwestern Nigeria
Characterization of farming systems in Africa RISING intervention sites in Malawi, Tanzania, Ghana and Mali
Global offensive against desertification. Sowing on barren land
A dry and dusty savannah, Emaciated cattle plodding dejectedly past the last remaining scraps of grass that have survived the merciless heat and sandstorms. Such images are all too familiar. Across the globe, soil degradation and desertification cost about 490 billion euros per year, according to expert estimates. "About 12 million hectares of land are lost to this every year" says Wageningen soil physicist Coen Ritsema of Alterra Wageningen UR. ‘That is equivalent to half the land surface of the UK.’
Proeftuin Food Valley : de kwaliteit van de leefomgeving
Het agrarische gebruik heeft gevolgen voor de kwaliteit van de leefomgeving. Schaalvergroting is ook voor veel agrarische bedrijven in FoodValley een toekomststrategie. Een ander deel van de bedrijven is relatief klein, een aanzienlijk deel daarvan heeft geen opvolger. Functieverandering van agrarische bedrijven neemt een hoge vlucht en verandert het aanzien van het landschap. Bovendien ontstaan nieuwe en soms ongewenste soorten van bedrijvigheid in vrijkomende agrarische gebouwen en boerderijen. Ondanks het overwegend intensieve agrarisch gebruik, kent de Vallei ook veel "trage gebieden".
Forestry in MAGNET : a new approach for land use and forestry modelling
This report discusses improvements of MAGNET in order to improve the analysis of land use change and forestry dynamics. In the standard approach only a difference is made between agricultural land, non-used land that can be potentially used for agriculture, and land that never can be used for agriculture. In the new approach different other land cover types like built - up area and forestry are distinguished.