Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information. This approach is not always effective and has proved hard to scale sustainably, particularly in highly dispersed smallholder farming systems. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) ...
Zwerfafval in rivieren heeft een negatieve impact op mens en milieu. Een langetermijn monitoringstrategie zal bijdragen aan (1) beleid, (2) kennisontwikkeling, (3) operationele doelen en (4) evalueren van oplossingen. De Routekaart maakt de samenhang tussen doelen, openstaande vragen en projecten inzichtelijk, en helpt om concrete projecten te form...
Rapid measurements are valuable in food authentication. As a first step towards application of sound for fast food authentication, the influence of fat content and dilution of liquid milk/cream products on their ultrasound characteristics was examined. A total of 18 liquid dairy products, ranging in fat content from 0 to 60 g/100 g product, includi...
Hypothesis: Microbial extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) produced from wastewater are generally heterodispersed, which is expected to influence their flocculation performances and mechanism, particularly in mixed particle systems. The different molecular weight (MW) fractions should contribute to the overall adsorption affinity and flocculati...
We investigate how user-managed small-scale irrigation can influence inclusive rural transformation. Cultivating inclusive rural transformation is key to sustainable growth and poverty reduction in developing countries, but existing research rarely analyses the holistic impacts of rural development projects on this process. We use a combination of ...
Background: Whether decreased physical functioning of patients with mitochondrial disease (MD) is related to altered body composition or low protein intake needs clarification at the background of the nutrition state. Methods: In this 2-site cross-sectional study, MD patients were age-, body mass index (BMI)–, and gender-matched to controls. Body c...
Knowledge of how many sampling points are needed to estimate the mean content of soil nutrients in agricultural fields, given a precision requirement on the estimated mean, is limited. This paper describes a versatile geostatistical simulation approach for predicting the variance of the mean nitrate-N (NO3-N) content within an agricultural field es...
Animal manure used to be the major source of additional nutrients and crucial for maintaining soil fertility and crop yield in traditional farming systems. However, it is increasingly not recycled, wasting vital resources and damaging the environment. By using long-term (1986–2017) data from a rural household survey (>20,000 households) across Chin...
The effectiveness of green mussel (Perna viridis) cultivation was compared between longline culture and the traditional bamboo stake method using different mussel densities in a rural area on the north coast of Java, Indonesia. The study took place in a rural area about 2 km north-east from the city of Semarang where unsustainable shrimp and fish p...
Rapidly changing hydrological conditions under climate change, upstream developments, and local water infrastructures require transformative changes in water management strategies for the agriculture sector in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta (VMD). For more than three decades, the agricultural policies in Vietnam have emphasized the intensification of ...
