Projects
Biomonitoring of the Urban Habitat Quality through Chlorophyll Fluorescence." Hasselt University
High spatial resolution agent-based modelling at the country scale: an application of farming dynamics in Belgium. KU Leuven
During the last decades, ongoing economic pressure as a result of increasing specialisation, mechanisation and globalisation have led to a continuous decrease in farmers numbers in many parts of the world. This process is leading to profound changes in the socio-ecological system of rural areas worldwide and confronts policy makers and rural planners with new challenges.
To better understand such complex systems that are, to a certain ...
Microbial Hydroponics KU Leuven
Embedding ecological networks through social practices in the periphery of Brussels KU Leuven
The impact of urbanization on microbial community structure, pollinator behavior and mating system in the late-flowering plant Linaria vulgaris KU Leuven
Entering the XXIst century, humanity will face enormous challenges to its continued prosperity. This is because the ecosystem in which mankind participates is undergoing planetary scale alterations, giving birth to new unprecedented problems. The growth and changing distribution of human population is a constituent part of this so-called global change, and must be carefully studied in order to give the coming generations a chance for a better ...
Yellow for Geel: paved farm becomes productive land KU Leuven
Systemic initiative: an experimental softening laboratory with a concrete softening task and area-oriented or policy-based diagnosis as a starting point that is translated via test cases into an initiative for policy embedding or an action program with pilot projects. could offer great potential for softening and re-deployment for agriculture. The target i.r.t. the strategic vision of the BRV is to soften up to 20% of the softening potential ...
Yellow for Geel: paved farm becomes productive land KU Leuven
Systemic initiative: an experimental softening laboratory with a concrete softening task and area-oriented or policy-based diagnosis as a starting point that is translated via test cases into an initiative for policy embedding or an action program with pilot projects. could offer great potential for softening and re-deployment for agriculture. The target i.r.t. the strategic vision of the BRV is to soften up to 20% of the softening potential ...
Ghent Land – Debate series Ghent University
From March 2024 to August 2024, STAM (Ghent City Museum) will host an exhibition about Ghent's agricultural heritage, largely based on Ghent University research (i.e. PhD research by Hans Vandermaelen and Esther Beeckaert and the interdisciplinary research collaboration in the Stadsacademie on the place for agriculture in cities). In this valorisation project, the Stadsacademie wants to, parallel to the STAM exhibition, organize a series of ...
Investigating the potential of the (peri-)urban dairy chain for sustainable intensification of smallholder dairy farming in the Tigray zone of northern Ethiopia. Ghent University
The smallholder dairy sector in the peri-urban areas of the Tigray zone has not yet developed to its potential while demand is not met by local supply. This PhD study will focus on how inclusive business models in trade contracts and cooperative systems could enhance access of cattle holders to both feed supply and outlet markets and create a conducive production environment.