What happens to crooked beans?

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A major international agriculture conference took place in Abu Dhabi earlier this week. At the conference a large delegation from Wageningen UR presented its method…

New technique for understanding sand

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What forces are at work in a sand heap? A simple question,…

Wanted: the archetypal healthy eater

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Wageningen scientists have made a first attempt at profiling the archetypal healthy…

Resistant organic potato varieties on show

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Six new organic potato varieties have been presented which are resistant to…

‘Find a new approach to water board elections’

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Dutch water board elections are a lukewarm affair, with a traditionally low…

Petition to keep gender minor

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The minor on Gender aspects of sustainable food systems and two related…

Rikilt tracks down the toxin that kills horses

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One day in autumn 2013, one of the four ponies owned by…

Study to prove whether sheep was wolf’s victim

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A sheep from Nieuw-Amsterdam in Drenthe which may have been killed by…

Stranded in Nepal

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Who? Herbert Prins, professor of Resource Ecology What? Got stuck with 45,000…

Holland gets gardening

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Is Francisca Wubben, information specialist at the library, the bestkitchen gardener in…