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Opportunities for low-or-no pesticide vegetables in Chile and Uruguay
The thesis is part of the project Horticultural food systems based on ecologically intensive production and socio-economically sustainable value chains in the transition economies Chile and Uruguay (HortEco). While consumption of  ...
Supervisor: Depending on focus: Walter Rossing, Felix Bianchi, and a supervisor from Management Studies, Knowledge/Technology/Innovation or Rural Sociology
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Quantification of disease suppression from diversified cropping systems through farming systems experiments
Keywords: phytopathology, field experiments, Netherlands, diseases, intercropping, potatoes In this project you will investigate the potential of crop diversification on disease suppression. Crop diversification through rotatio ...
Supervisor: Dirk van Apeldoorn
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Food forest in development (thesis or internship)
On a site near Winterswijk (in the East of the Netherlands), we will develop a food forest (7000m2) and an organic small fruit harvest garden (5000 m2). This will offer a unique chance to do a baseline measurement as nothing has  ...
Supervisor: Kees van Veluw
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Measuring farmers’ agro-ecological resistance to weather extremes by agroecological soil management
Agroecological management of soils has been shown to provide resistance and resilience to weather extremes in the Pacific (Holt-Gimenez, 2002; Philpott et al., 2008). Europe has also faced weather extremes over the past years. In  ...
Supervisor: Walter Rossing
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Model-based analysis of farm and household trajectories
INTRODUCTION Family farms are very diverse and dynamic. Farm systems can be analyzed in the context of the livelihood strategies of the farm family, which may comprise other activities besides farming. Farms differ in production  ...
Supervisor: Jeroen Groot
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Model-based exploration of synergies in rice-based farms
INTRODUCTION Rice-based smallholder farms face many challenges to increase productivity in order to improve nutritional and economic aspects of rural livelihoods in a sustainable way. In on-station and on-farm trials new options  ...
Supervisor: Jeroen Groot
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Running an Ecoliteracy school with primary school children
From May 2019 onward the Droevendaal Food Forest has place for an intership student who is willing to co-implement our Ecolitercay School in the Food Forest. The oldest pupils (group 7 and 8, 11 and 12 years of age) of the Eureka ...
Supervisor: Kees van Veluw
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Citizen science to document farmers’ adaptation to environmental change: The case of coffee agroforestry systems in Mexico
(Background: from project rationale) While science and policy-making try to deliver solutions to help farmers adapt to environmental change, farmers are already conducting their own field experiments to identify adaptation strate ...
Supervisor: Vivian Valencia
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Quantification of farmland birds in diversified Dutch, arable cropping systems and monocultural arable cropping systems
Keywords: Farmland birds, Bird census, ornithology, agro-biodiversity, partridges, skylarks. In this project you will contribute to research on arable birds, in agricultural landscapes by quantifying birds’ preferences. The FSE ...
Supervisor: Dirk van Apeldoorn
Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
Service crops in the rotation
Many arable farms have a quite intensive crop rotation, consisting of as much high income crops as possible. In the Netherlands and in other countries, this causes problems with soil-borne pests and diseases, weeds, soil fertility ...
Supervisor: Dirk van Apeldoorn or Walter Rossing

Department: Farming Systems Ecology
 
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