Slash-and-mulch : Exploring the role of shrub-based agroforestry systems for smallholder farmers in the Sahel
A comprehensive assessment of agriculture in lowlands of south Brazil: characterization and comparison of current and al...
Agriculture in the lowlands of south Brazil is of strategic importance at the national level, since it supplies around 80% of the rice consumed by the Brazilian population. In Rio Grande do Sul, the southernmost state in Brazil, three million hectares of lowlands are ready for grain-based agriculture. Of this area, about half is fallow, partly used...
Agronomic and socioeconomic sustainability of farming systems : A case in Chencha, South Ethiopia
Potato has multiple benefits and thus can play a vital role in ensuring food security in Ethiopia. However, for diverse reasons, its productivity is low. The farming systems in Ethiopia in which potato is grown, are predominantly mixed farming systems. Most of the research in Ethiopia is focused on crop-specific constraints and thus there is limite...
Batch and repeated-batch oil production by microalgae
Microalgal triglycerides (TAGs) are promising feedstocks for the commodity markets (i.e. food, chemical and biofuel). Nevertheless, microalgal TAGs are not yet economically feasible due to the high production costs. To reduce these costs, TAG productivity needs to be maximized. The aim of this thesis was to increase microalgal TAG productivity by i...
Tevredenheid en productiviteit op de radiologie afdeling: De invloed van fysieke omgevingsfactoren
In het onderzoek staat centraal de relatie van de fysieke omgeving met de tevredenheid van medewerkers, patiënten en bezoekers en de productiviteit van medewerkers. / Real Estate Management / Real Estate & Housing / Architecture and The Built Environment
The dynamics of oil accumulation in Scenedesmus obliquus
.Abstract long Global demands for food and biofuels increase rapidly, together with an increase of concerns for depleting fossil resources and climate change. New sustainable sources of vegetable oil, from now on referred to as triacylglycerol (TAG), are therefore highly desired. Arable land to produce these TAGs is however limited. Microalgae have...
Strain improvement of oleaginous microalgae
The increasing world population and living standards have enlarged the demand for food, feed, and for chemicals. Traditional fossil fuel based commodities need to be replaced, not only because these resources are finite, but also to relieve the impact of carbon emission and pollution, resulting from fossil fuel derived processes. Much attention is ...
Uitbreiden ondanks nieuwe wetgeving?
Kunnen bedrijven nog wel ontwikkelen na de komst van de Melkveewet en fosfaatrechten? Onderzoekers in Wageningen brachten via een rekenmodel de gevolgen in kaart. Zij concluderen dat het interessant blijft om beschikbare stalcapaciteit te benutten en dat fosfaatrechten niet snel de limiterende factor zijn.
A social analysis of contested fishing practices in Lake Victoria
Thesis abstract The thesis explored how the global market for Nile Perch fish has reconfigured the social and the natural in dramatic ways. The demand for Nile Perch and Dagaa played, willingly or unwillingly, an important role in converting its products into regionally and globally desired commodity. It has also simultaneously restructured the org...
Rassenproef zwarte bessen 2011-2014
Vanaf 2011 heeft het Praktijkonderzoek Plant & Omgeving (PPO) sector Fruit te Randwijk het rassenonderzoek met zwarte bessen gedurende vier jaren voortgezet. Het doel is (nieuwe) rassen te zoeken en te toetsen onder Nederlandse (Zeeuwse) teeltomstandigheden, die een verbetering kunnen zijn van de huidige rassen voor wat betreft de productiviteit, d...
