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 …

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 …

Urban Agriculture (UA) is a highly dynamic phenomenon, which is evolving constantly through space and time. Whilst previous typologies emphasised the distinctions between urban gardening and urban farming, the increasingly complex nature of the discipline has meant that these typologies no longer reflect …

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.

Struiken, heesters en bomen kunnen een meerwaarde leveren op je melkveebedrijf. Zo geven de bomen de nodige schaduw voor de koeien en zijn er verschillende struiken die een mooie aanvulling vormen op hun dieet. Daarnaast is het goed voor de bodem en zijn er verdienmogelijkheden voor het onderhouden van …

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 …

Voor boomkwekers en andere kwekers van uitgangsmateriaal wordt het steeds moeilijker om aan nieuwe percelen te komen die vrij zijn van knolcyperus. Het areaal landbouwgrond dat besmet is met dit probleemonkruid, neemt immers toe. Schone grond is cruciaal voor de meerjarige boom- en vasteplantenteelt. …

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.