Plant photosynthesis and biomass production are associated with the amount of intercepted light, especially the light distribution inside the canopy. Three virtual canopies (n = 80, 3.25 plants/m2) were constructed based on average leaf size of the digitized plant structures: ‘small leaf’ (98.1 cm2), …

Most beginning food forests face the following challenge: how do we get the harvest to the consumer? At food forest 't Mortelke they had the same question. The following research presents the answer to the following question: 'What are potential outlets for the harvest of Voedselbos 't Mortelke and how …

A very specific form of tourism takes more and more place each year in France, it is wine tourism. Wine is the second largest French export sector and is the first surplus agro-food sector and the second surplus sector in France, after aeronautics and ahead of chemicals / perfumes. France has been recognized …

Column over de zorg voor een gezonder voedselaanbod.

Current food system challenges such as the gap between farmers, consumer, and food production, have caused alternative agriculture initiatives such as community supported agriculture (CSA) to rise. Herenboeren is a CSA initiative that aims to give local communities back their food sovereignty while …

The main goal of this report was to determine and visualize the outgoing food streams, identify the biggest issues and to find solutions on how the HAS can prevent, reduce and/or upcycle the food waste with 50 percent by the end of 2025.

In juni 2021 constateerde de Europese Rekenkamer dat pogingen om het landbouwbeleid te vergroenen tot nu toe zijn mislukt. Niek de Boer en Rik Eweg van Hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein geven een aanzet voor hoe dat wel kan.

Dairy cooperatives have been around in the Netherlands for more than 130 years (Bijman, 2018). A growing European economy and growing demand for dairy products offered opportunities for further growth (Bijman, 2018). As the technological development in dairy processing evolved, cooperatives continued …

The sustainable provision of enough nutritious food for a growing world population is pushing the food system towards finding new approaches to agriculture (Ockenden, et al., 2017). While the demand of animal products is rising (Armanda, Guinée, & Tukker, 2019), the negative effect on the climate, soil, …

The generation of food loss and waste is a topic that gained increasing attention over the past years. The most prominent estimate is that a third, or 1.3 billion tons, of the human food produced is wasted every year. The massive overproduction of food products on the one side and the malnutrition of …