News and Events related to Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient and Circular Food Systems
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Review: uptake of NBS
19 August 2022 - News - The EU wants to become sustainable, climate-neutral, climate resilient, fair, and prosperous by 2050. To reach that goal, a much wider adoption of NbS is needed. How to see the opportunities for NbS to take flight? Researchers from several countries in Europe published a review paper on this topic. One of the authors is dr. Marjolein Sterk, the project leader of Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient and Circular Food Systems. -
Cleansing Landscapes
18 July 2022 - News - Did you know that IJsselmeer is the most important freshwater buffer in the Netherlands? And that in the future, IJsselmeer water will be more often too dirty and salty to make drinking water from? Luckily, the project ‘Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient and Circular Food Systems’ could foster the writing of a proposal to investigate alternatives. -
New content about Ghana case
08 November 2021 - News - Are you interested in our work in Ghana? Then visit our case study page and learn how we dealt with participatory modelling without input from direct stakeholders, what a learning journey in Polarsteps looks like and what the Ghanaian team found out during a situation analysis in the field. -
Much interest in Farm of the Future innovation vouchers
20 May 2021 - News - The voucher provision for the Wageningen University & Research (WUR) Farm of the Future agro-ecological research project attracts a lot of attention. Over fifty domestic and foreign businesses have applied to test an innovation or new technology for circular agriculture over the last few months. Four applicants, all of whom develop autonomous field robots, have received a voucher. This enables them to use the facilities, expertise and support of the Farm of the Future. New applications are still welcome. -
The Velhorst estate: prince charming of agricultural practices
07 April 2021 - Blog post - What is more nature-based: one monoculture or a biodiverse patchwork of crops? Farmers Arjen and Winny van Buuren know the answer. On the Velhorst estate in Lochem they apply intercropping. This way, they combat vulnerability to climate change, loss of biodiversity and a monotonous landscape. Wageningen University & Research collects data to underpin the effectiveness of this initiative. For this blog, we interviewed Arjen van Buuren about this hands-on example of nature-based solutions for climate resilient and circular food systems. -
Pioneering farmer Roy Michielsen about nature-based solutions
07 December 2020 - Blog post - How to make friends with enemies of our enemies? That central question led to a nature-based solution for farmer Roy Michielsen of ERF BV. Since 2015, ERF BV has been applying basic principles of nature to farming by strip cropping. Now, five years later, he is convinced that this is the nature-based solution that he was looking for. -
Finding nature-based solutions together
30 October 2020 - News - In anticipation of the digital Climate Adaptation Summit (CAS) in January, Wageningen University & Research organised the online event 'Road to CAS'. Nature-based solutions for climate resilient and circular food systems was part of the programme. -
Nature-based solutions in VPRO's Tegenlicht
11 October 2020 - News - Wijnand Sukkel, our colleague in the Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient and Circular Food Systems project explains nature-based solutions at the Farm of the Future in the Dutch broadcast VPRO's future affairs-programme Tegenlicht. In the midst of the Flevopolder, innovative and practical solutions for sustainable agriculture are being devised here - in collaboration with a running farm. The aim is to inform, inspire and prepare other farmers for the future: how can agro-ecology and technology be used to achieve a future-proof farm? -
Nature-based solutions in STOWA Deltafact
30 September 2020 - News - Local practical examples show that the creation of natural forest, food forest and agroforestry in catchment areas of Dutch waters can be of added value for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, water buffering and water safety. The National Forest Strategy, the Climate Agreement and the Integral River Management program provide frameworks for applying these land use forms more widely as nature-based solutions. The precondition is that earnings models are developed for the entrepreneurs involved and that ecosystem services for society are quantified. -
Nature-based solutions in Vroege Vogels
11 September 2020 - News - Strip cultivation is a nature-based solution for more biodiversity in arable farming. Colleagues Wijnand Sukkel and Dirk van Apeldoorn explain this in the Dutch radio programme Vroege Vogels. From the project Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilient and Circular Food Systems we learned that when big monocultures are harvested, all food and hiding places, insects and birds are gone at once. With strip cultivation we create a lot of diversity in the crops, which has a major positive effect on biodiversity. Beneficially, natural enemies of a disease or plague are always nearby.
> Project-related reportage in Dutch newspaper 'Volkskrant' (3 July 2020).
> Project-related reportage in Dutch newpaper 'NRC' (24 June 2020).