Projects
Unravelling mycoprotein bioproduction by Neurospora crassa towards development of a vegan steak. KU Leuven
The rising world population and the associated demand for meat are putting increasing pressure on the meat industry. As a result, the meat industry now demands 40% of the global yield of cereals for feed. These cereals are increasingly difficult to grow due to the climate change, also caused by emissions from the meat industry. The share of greenhouse gases from livestock farming is estimated at an average of 14.5% of global emissions. A ...
Groundwater Security in Africa: Groundwater enhancement through Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and Managed Artificial Recharge (MAR) Ghent University
This short visit or stay in UGent will be devoted to prepare a proposal on Enhancing water security in Africa through Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR). The proposal will be designed to bring together the networks of the North and South promoters and be founded on the results and achievements of previous hydrogeology projects of both research groups.
Borders, Mobilities and Landscapes. Mapping railway infrastructure in (post)colonial Africa Ghent University
The construction of railways in colonial Africa was a crucial step in the development of extractive economies initiated by competing European powers. Exploitation, however, is only one side of the story, as railway lines also created unexpected dynamics across colonial borders, triggering large-scale mobility of people, goods and ideas, and forever transforming the landscapes they traversed. This exhibition shows some of the results of the ...
Sensitizing Event 2021: Better Eating in Ecuador Ghent University
This event will inform stakeholders in Flanders and Latin America about the research conducted between
Ghent University and two Universities in Ecuador (one in the coast and one in the highland) which joint forces to reduce
the double burden of malnutrition in Ecuador. The conference starts with a documental about the double burden of
malnutrition in Ecuador (title: to eat or not to eat, that is the issue in Ecuador) and ...
DiSSCo Flanders: Towards a collection management infrastructure for Flanders Meise Botanic Garden
Connecting European Cohorts to Increase Common and Effective Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic (ORCHESTRA). University of Antwerp
To review the relevance and effectiveness of the ILO-OECD-WHO Working for Health Programme Institute of Tropical Medicine
Understanding species’ invasions: a mechanistic view on the invasion success of the common waxbill, a prolific avian invader. Ghent University
Invasive species are among the main global threats to biodiversity, economy and human well-being. Preventing their introduction is paramount but requires being able to reliably predict invasion risks. Currently, forecasts of where introduced species can invade strongly rely on extrapolating native-range realized niche characteristics onto new areas. Frequent mismatches between predicted and actual invasive occurrences however raise concern ...
Development of an integrated decision support tool for managing dairy cows using a data and biology accommodating approach KU Leuven
With more than 170 million tons of milk produced by dairy cows in 2017, the dairy sector was the second most important agricultural sector of the EU. It is, however, not exempt from emerging disruption as it faces a confluence of challenges such as the rapidly increasing global demand for dairy products, the volatility of global dairy markets and the growing concern over the impact of ruminant production on climate change, water quality and ...