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BSc-MSc Thesis and Internship Projects, Wageningen University

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PIP and SLM-related thesis research in the Mount Elgon region - Uganda
In the Eastern part of Uganda we are currently implementing the “Manafwa Watershed Restoration and Stewardship” project, which has just started with the first PIP-workshops in 6 selected villages. As there are also 3 PhD students ...
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Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

PIP and SLM-related thesis research around the Virungas National Park
In the Western part of Rwanda the “Water for Virungas” project (W4V) is has recently started with the PIP-approach. A first WU student has already done his thesis research, and W4V is now looking for a follow-up student interested ...
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Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Community Self-help groups and sustainable livelihoods in Rwanda
Since 2008 the Dutch NGO “Help a Child” implements in Rwanda the Self-Help Model which supports local communities to get together and find solutions to their own problems. This model focusses on economic, social and environmental ...
Supervisor: Ezekiel Rukema
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Understanding adoption of soil fertility practices in Andean smallholder communities.
The Andean highlands have been under cultivation for millennia, but growing demand for food, modernization, and climate change have led to agricultural intensification and soil degradation. Participatory research towards the plant ...
Supervisor: Steven Fonte
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

Synergistic transport of pesticides and microplastics by preferential flow
Problem context Pesticides and plastic mulching are widely used in agriculture and horticulture. However, pesticide residues and plastic debris have become an increasingly challenging problem for soil and environmental, as pest ...
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Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

The impact of climate and land use change on land degradation in a semi-arid catchment
Climate change is expected to have a negative impact on land degradation, mainly due to the projected increase in extreme precipitation. Land use change may amplify (e.g. due to agricultural intensification) or decrease (e.g. due ...
Supervisor: Jantiene Baartman
Department: Soil Physics and Land Management group

MSc Thesis: Assessing the impact of nature-inclusive farming on seasonal insect abundance
In this MSc thesis, you will study insects in diverse strip cropping fields (https://weblog.wur.eu/spotlight/more-nature-in-fields-through-strip-cropping/). These diverse fields contain early, late, and perennial crops, leading to ...
Supervisor: Rik Waenink
Department: Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group

Settling the soil C saturation debate
Managing terrestrial ecosystems to increase the carbon contained in soils has been described as a potent way to mitigate climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Soil carbon is also key to supporting ecosyste ...
Supervisor: Gabriel Moinet (SBL), Christopher Poeplau (Thunen institute, Germany)
Department: Soil Biology

Modelling dengue dynamics and resilience
The student will focus on the analysis of an epidemiological compartmental model for dengue, a tropical mosquito-borne disease. These models divide the population into several compartments depending on their epidemiological stat ...
Supervisor: Clara Delecroix (clara.delecroix@wur.nl)
Ingrid van de Leemput (ingrid@wur.nl)
Department: Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management Group

Understanding the influence of remote sensing classification methods on smallholder irrigation in Mozambique
Country: Mozambique Host institute: Resiliencia Problem context Smallholder irrigation is seen as a useful approach to improve agricultural productivity, increase food security, reduce poverty and increase resilience to clima ...
Supervisor: Gert Jan Veldwisch, Alex Bolding
Department: Water Resources Management group

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