The impact of drought on developing country like Ghana cannot be underestimated most importantly if Ghana as nation wants to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals 1 and 2 which are aimed at reducing extreme hunger and poverty by 2030. The study was aimed at identifying the coping strategies used …

”Landscape as House” is about animating my families landscape through a new form of topographic living: a frag-mented house embedded into forests, meadows and the village. This house creates a life constituted of movement through landscape, on the scale of a farmers ground, with rooms inhabiting its …

The dairy sector in the Netherlands aims for a 30% increase in efficiency and 30% carbon dioxide emission reduction compared to the reference year of 1990, and a 20% share of renewable energy, all by the year 2020. Anaerobic Digestion (AD) can play a substantial role in achieving these aims. However, …

This report describes the results and recommendations for Indian dairy farmers and Dutch and Indian companies, from the RAAK Family Dairy Tech India project. Researchers and students of two Dutch and one Indian University of Applied Sciences, together with ten Dutch companies, Indian companies and …

Op de Dairy Campus wordt onderzoek gedaan naar gras. In de toekomst zullen activiteitenmeters de grasopname van koeien betrouwbaar kunnen vaststellen en hopelijk ook andere aspecten van gras: wat is de grasgroei per perceel, hoe groot is de grasvoorraad, het eiwitgehalte en wat is de voorspelde grasgroei …

Reigerstraat 24, het pand waarin de voormalige Casinobioscoop van 1932 tot 2008 zijn films aan het Bredase publiek vertoonde, heeft door de aanwezigheid van concrete delen van het 14e-eeuwse woonpaleis van de Heren van Breda een parel van een perceel, in het centrum van de stad. Gedurende de vorige …

Is de Nederlandse melkveehouder klaar om met sensordata aan de slag te gaan? Die vraag is meerdere malen gesteld tijdens de themamiddag 'Blij met sensoren in de wei' op de Dairy Campus, georganiseerd door hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Wageningen Livestock Research en het project 4DF4. Een eenduidige …

Insect farming has been suggested as a good alternative to conventional livestock farming for the growing demand of food and feed production. One of the most well-known edible insects is the silkworm, larva of the silk moth (Bombyx mori). This insect is reared because of their commercially valuable products, …

Koeien die Ketoprotect Plus krijgen met de Optima-box geven meer melk. Dat blijkt uit een studie van hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein, Aeres Hogeschool Dronten en HAS Hogeschool.

When the daily routine of a cow is disturbed, it may have a detrimental effect on the performance of activity meters to detect estrus. It is possible that during the pasture period, the daily routine of cows is disturbed, adversely affecting the performance of activity meters to detect estrus which does …