WUR pig farm Sterksel to close

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The pig innovation centre (VIC) in Sterksel will close in 2020. The experimental farm has too few permanent partners and long-term research projects, and as…
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Why is Sterksel closing?

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WUR’s Swine Innovation Centre Sterksel is closing in 2020 due to lack…

Small kitchens

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They say that culture affects the way we view space. That cannot…

The revolution of 1980

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Until the late 1980s, Wageningen was a hive of student activism, and…

Meanwhile in… Greece

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After years of austerity measures following the economic crisis, the Greek prime…

‘More stuff doesn’t make us happy’

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Sam van Es researches plant growth. But he also like to philosophize…

Routine is good for cows

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Cows with a regular diurnal rhythm and set times for eating and…

Solar energy needs better sunshine forecasting

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More and more people have solar panels. That poses problems for energy…
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Will we go back to farm labour?

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Truly sustainable agriculture demands radical measures. In his PhD thesis, Meino Smit…

Sneak preview of new nature documentary WAD: A film odyssey with hunting starfish

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This film that reads like a good novel. No fairy tales but…