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• Agriculture in transition  Course - To go beyond just an increase in outputs to feed 9 billion people in 2050, an integral redirection of current farming practices is required. Nowadays...
• From production-oriented farming towards multifunctional entrepreneurship - Exploring the underlying learning process PLM (Pieter) Seuneke MSc 
  PhD defence - This thesis unravels the learning process underlying the switch from conventional production-oriented farming towards ‘multifunctional...
•  Public lecture by Jane Goodall  - Lecture - On May 11th, Dr. Jane Goodall will hold a public lecture at Wageningen UR (University & Research centre). Dr. Goodall is a World renowned...
• Conference Insects to feed the world  - Conference - Potential of insects as human food and animal feed in assuring food security. The overall objective of the conference is to promote the use of insects...
• Conference Insects to feed the world - Conference - Potential of insects as human food and animal feed in assuring food security. The overall objective of the conference is to promote the use of insects...
• The role of social capital in agricultural development projects FC (Fedes) van Rijn MSc
  PhD defence - In this thesis, I show that trust and group participation of households, defined as social capital, has an important role in the evaluation of...
• Gaming and simulation to explore resilience of contested agricultural landscapes ir. EN (Erika) Speelman 
  - PhD defence - Over the past decades, impacts of market changes and legislation promoting nature conservation greatly increased in small-scale farming communities....
• 10 years Milk Genomics Initiative  - Seminar - On the occasion of the PhD defenses of Aniek Bouwman (16 May) and Etske Bijl (23 May), a seminar is held on Friday the 16th of May entitled '10...
• Unravelling desiccation tolerance in germinated Arabidopsis seeds J (Julio) Maia de Oliveira MSc 
  - PhD defence - How different organisms survive in the absence or under very limited amounts of water is still an open question. The aim of the research presented in...
• Research Seminar by Bas Verschuuren (SDC)- Seminar - Bas verschuuren will discuss parts of the book Community Wellbeing in Biocultural Landscapes, Are we living well? COMPAS, UNU IAS & UNDOP Equator...
• The genetic background of bovine milk fat composition unraveled ir. AC (Aniek) Bouwman
  - PhD defence - Milk fat is a nutritious source of energy, fat-soluble vitamins, bioactive lipids, and fatty acid beneficial for human health, while it also contains...
• Integrated seed sector development- Course - Over the last decades, the formal seed system in most developing countries has shifted from a publicly dominated sector to a privately dominated...
• Monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment of food and nutrition security programmes - Course - Funding agencies, NGOs, government and other stakeholders put demands on accountability and transparency. They also need to know the impact of...
• How do Bolivian forests respond to changes in weather and climate? C (Christian) Seiler
  - PhD defence - The sensitivity of tropical forests to climate variability and change in Bolivia was studied by combining information from climate observations,...
• Suicide among Farmers (Series: Farmers in Trouble) - Lecture - Lecture by Lizzy van Leeuwen
  
• Epigenesis & Epigenetics - Physiological consequences of perinatal nutritional programming - Course - Nutritional conditions in early life may, through epigenetic and epigenesist processes, have profound effects on physiological functioning and health...
• Tropical forests carry a legacy of past disturbance M (Mart) Vlam MSc
  - PhD defence - Tropical forests are occasionally hit by intense disturbances like hurricanes or droughts that kill many trees. We found evidence for such intense...
• International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS) - Congress - ICASS is held every three years, bringing together people from all over the world to share ideas about social science research in the Arctic.
• Flora Fauna Hack May - Event - Alterra and Polderhack Productions are organizing one kick ass Hackathon, the Flora Fauna Hack. Hackers, Domain Experts, Students and Academics will...
• The Landscape Triennial in Park Lingezegen - Exhibit - This year the Landscape Triennial takes place in Park Lingezegen, a landscape park that is being realised in the river-landscape between Arnhem and...