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Ecosystem-based adaptation planning and management for water and agriculture
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Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is part of the growing efforts to harness nature’ services to reduce impacts of climate change on water and food production across the globe. EbA solutions focus on the role of ecosystem ...
Supervisor: R Vignola
L Ho Huu
Department: Water Systems and Global Change |
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Climate Information Services (CIS)
Theme Introduction
Multiple sectors are increasingly aware how vulnerable our economies are to the impacts of climate change. Following the rapid increase of monitoring and collecting climate data there is a need to transform t ...
Supervisor: S Paparrizos
M del Pozo
S Suntato
Department: Water Systems and Global Change |
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Adaptation pathways and climate change
Theme introduction
Adaptation pathways are proposed as a promising decision-focused approach for adaptation to climate change. Adaptation pathways sequence measures over time and allow for progressive implementation depending o ...
Supervisor: Bregje van der Bolt
Wouter Smolenaars
Wout Sommerauer
Saskia Werners
Department: Water Systems and Global Change |
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Land use and climate interactions
Theme introduction
TThis theme’s focus is on dynamic feedbacks and interactions between water, carbon and climate change, modelled and observed at mostly regional scales. We study the effects of natural vegetation, crops, and ...
Supervisor: Ronald Hutjes
Bart Kruijt
Ruchita Ingle
Department: Water Systems and Global Change |
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Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA)
Theme introduction
Global population is expected to grow with one-third, while income will triple, with its consequences for food demand. Agriculture is both a significant contributor to, as well as suffering from climate chan ...
Supervisor: Ronald Hutjes
Iwan Supit
Thomas Kirina
Bart Kruijt
Raffaele Vignola (raffaele.vignola@wur.nl)
Department: Water Systems and Global Change |
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Farmer managed natural regeneration as a restoration strategy in Western Kenya
General research question: what regenerates under what social and environmental conditions, and how does this contribute to optimizing functionality?
Questions to be further specified together with potential student, depending on ...
Supervisor: FEM: Madelon Lohbeck in cooperation with ICRAF
Department: Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group |
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CRISPR-Cas in plant development
Recent advances with the RNA-mediated CRISPR-Cas systems have dramatically transformed our ability to specifically modify intact genomes of diverse cells and organisms. The CRISPR–Cas system has proven to be an efficient, simple, ...
Supervisor: Dr. Ir. Renze Heidstra
Department: Cell Biology |
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Photocatalyzed Fe acquisition from atmospheric dust in marine environments
Oceans have vast HNLC (High-Nutrient, Low-Chlorophyll) areas, where primary productivity is limited by iron (Fe) availability. In this way Fe bioavailability in the ocean affects the global carbon cycle by limiting how much carbo ...
Supervisor: Walter Schenkeveld and Naresh Kumar/Stephan Kraemer
Department: Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality |
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The water-energy-food nexus (WEF nexus)
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Water, energy and food security are closely linked. They work in synergy but can also be in conflict. A solar pump for irrigation can give a farmer in India access to groundwater with renewable energy. Howeve ...
Supervisor: Inge de Graaf
Raffaele Vignola (raffaele.vignola@wur.nl)
Inge de Graaf (inge.degraaf@wur.nl)
Department: Water Systems and Global Change |
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