Maize cultivation in Ghana has been ongoing for centuries. Maize production in Ghana, is predominantly done under rain-fed conditions by smallholder farmers. The agro-ecological zones for maize cultivation in Ghana are grouped into four; the coastal savannah, forest zone, transition zone and the Guinea …

The objective of this report was to develop a food forest design plan for one of the farms that is included in the Farm LIFE project, of which farm estate ‘De Koekkoek’ in Drimmelen was selected for this purpose. The design was designed to be adopted to the given site conditions and to meet the objectives …

Food forests form an interesting option in the development of a more sustainable form of agriculture. They are rapidly gaining in popularity in the Netherlands, although the uptake of the concept has mainly been on private estates and public land. The Dutch agricultural sector is sceptical of the concept …

A food forest produces financial, social and natural value. But how exactly? This paper focuses on the question: “What could be a successful business case for a temperate climate food forest in the Netherlands?”. This report shows that food forests can beat conventional food systems in the long run, …

This final research is conducted as a bachelor thesis of the programme Delta Management at the HZ University of Applied Sciences in Vlissingen, Netherlands and is executed at the Coastal Conservation Institute (ICC) in the coastal municipality of São Sebastião in Brazil. The municipality is located on …

The critically endangered western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) once occurred in 12 West African countries. However, increasing anthropogenic factors have caused a dramatic decline in the species’ habitat and population. This dramatic decline raises fears that the species may become extinct in the …

Abstract of a lecture that was held on the 12th Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in June 2017.

A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), …

The current western agrifood system is highly successful in providing for human needs. However, the dominant agricultural approach of up-scaling and specialisation is put under pressure by a number of developments in the global landscape. Global developments such as population growth, pollution, soil …

This management plan is written for the STEMA Bible school. The School wants to be self-sufficient regarding their vegetables and crops by increasing the yield of their community forest. The school is located on Ambon which is an island of the Moluccas archipelago in Indonesia. The community forest, …