The goal of this research is not to elaborate on the biodynamic aspect of the project, but to underpin the reasons why certain decisions are made whilst tracing the evolution of decisions throughout these past months. Therefore, this research retraces the evolution of the food system with a Political …

Multifunctional farming – an umbrella term used to indicate a combination of agricultureand services to society – has been a research subject for the Rural Sociology Group for decades. One new multifunctional activity is education at the care farm. The article can be found on p. 131.

Er zijn veel verschillende sensoren beschikbaar die gebruikt kunnen worden om data in te winnen. Daarnaast zijn er veel verschillende werkwijzen om aan de slag te gaan met sensoren. Om een gestandaardiseerde werkwijze op te stellen, is een groep 4e-jaars AGIS studenten van de HAS green academy in het …

De workshop heeft als doel awareness te creëren rondom metadata bij iedereen die betrokken is bij projecten waarin met data gewerkt wordt. Dit betreft zowel de onderzoeker als de datasteward en onderzoeksondersteuner.

De smart farming oplossing die Sogeti wil realiseren voor haar klant is gebaseerd op Azure services. Om een smart farming oplossing te realiseren dienen diverse services binnen de Azure omgeving met elkaar verbonden te worden op basis van directe koppelingen of gecodeerde verbindingen. Sogeti heeft nog …

The goal of this study was to develop an automated monitoring system for the detection of pigs’ bodies, heads and tails. The aim in the first part of the study was to recognize individual pigs (in lying and standing positions) in groups and their body parts (head/ears, and tail) by using machine learning …

This paper analyses the initiative AgroAgenda in the northern Netherlands. The AgroAgenda is a platform in which multiple stakeholders together stimulate a circular, and nature-inclusive agro-food system in the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen and Drenthe. Stakeholders come from, among others, …

The present work aims at providing broader insight into the environmental impact of milk production by comparing greenhouse gas (GHG) and nitrogen (N) emissions of milk production among the intensive and extensive dairy farming systems from production and land-use perspectives. Three dairy farms in the …

Historically, rice production in Liberia can be traced far after the decline of the Mali Empire in 1375 and Songhay in 1591 respectively. Currently, rice is the first staple food crop in Liberia for livelihood and income generation for rice farming communities.

Greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming have been a topic of concern all over the world with some countries having taken pilot studies in quantifying the emissions in their farms. This study was done to calculate and compare the carbon footprint in small and large-scale dairy farms in Zimbabwe.