Domain
Our strategy focuses on the domain 'healthy food and living conditions'.
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The 3 core issues within our domain:
Health, Lifestyle, and Living conditions
Within this area, we
investigate issues such as:
- How
do we stay healthy
with food as long as possible?
- What
factors determine people’s
lifestyle and how
can this lifestyle be influenced?
- What is the relationship between health risks and consumer behaviour?
- What do consumers know about food quality and safety?
Nutrition and food production
Within this area we gather
knowledge about how we can
produce safe, healthy and tasty food.
- How to produce food more efficiently and distribute it with the minimal use of fossil fuels?
- How to fight diseases responsibly so that a clean and safe product finds it ways to the shelves?
- How can the shelf life of products
be improved while still preserving food quality?
- What are the global social consequences of food production?
Habitats
Within this area, we
play a leading role in the development of knowledge on issues such as:
- What
is the impact of
climate change on nature and landscapes?
- What
consequences do social
changes for the spatial planning?
- How
can the world’s water
resources be managed in a sustainable manner?
- What sustainable solutions are available to resolve conflicting claims to land?
Algae cultivation using waste water from greenhouse horticulture, and used as feed for oysters
Developing plants with a perfect balance of healthy substances
Clean seas
Wadden Works at the Afsluitdijk: a safe sea defence through new nature
Database shows where plants feel at home
Consequences of the legal timber trade for Ghana’s local population
Early warning system for desertification
Kids and vegetables
Biobased Performance Materials
Cater with Care
N2AFRICA - Putting nitrogen fixation to work for smallholder farmers in Africa
What does food do to our immune system?