Onderzoek naar op welke manier duurzame fruitteelt in Nederland rendabel kan zijn. Vragen die aan de orde komen zijn: hoe ziet de fruitteelt (hardfruit) er in Europa uit, welke duurzame fruitteelt is er al, wat maakt duurzame fruitteelt herkenbaar en hoe duurzaam zijn de gangbare telers.

Het investeren in landbouwgrond wordt door een aantal factoren bemoeilijkt. Factoren als druk op de grondmarkt - met als gevolg een hoge prijs van landbouwgrond - en de financiële crisis maken het in deze tijden moeilijk om landbouwgrond te financieren. Juist in deze tijden zijn ondernemers driftig op …

This study proposes a systematic value chain approach to helping businesses identify and eliminate inefficiencies. The authors have developed a robust framework, which food-sector entrepreneurs can use to increase profitability of an existing business or to create new profitable opportunities. The value …

Semi-closed greenhouses have been developed in which window ventilation is minimized due to active cooling, enabling enhanced CO2 concentrations at high irradiance. Cooled and dehumidified air is blown into the greenhouse from below or above the canopy. Cooling below the canopy may induce vertical temperature …

Bergerden Agropark is a greenhouse zone area in province of Gelderland in the Netherlands. The local government, municipalities Nijmegen and Arnhem, is the owner of the land and it invested a lot on sustainable energy system in Begerden Agropark. The greenhouse entrepreneurs built new and modern greenhouses …

Western-European consumers have become not only more demanding on product availability in retail outlets but also on other food attributes such as quality, integrity, and safety. When (re)designing food supply-chain networks, from a logistics point of view, one has to consider these demands next to traditional …

This Graduation Research was conducted in Woord en Daad to appraise the potential role that micro-equity finance can play in developing sustainable SMEs in Zambia. It focuses on the challenges currently facing SMEs as deciphered from the operations of Woord en Daad's Agribusiness and Enterprise development …