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Young Talent Meeting: World Food Shortage
Bienvenue Jeunes Talents
Wageningen October 10, 2012
Martin Kropff, Rector Magnificus
Global challenges
Agri-food
Climate change
Biobased Economy
Food and health
Stewardship
Food security
missie
…To explore the potential of nature, to improve the quality of life…
Wageningen UR domain
Wageningen UR (University & Research centre)
3 organisations:
● Wageningen University
● Van Hall Larenstein
● 9 research institutes
6,700 employees
12,000 stud. (> 120 countries)
International top
30 locations in The Netherlands
Heart of the Food Valley
Offices in Chile, Ethiopia and China
Worldwide networks:
● Education: tuning, exchange, fellowships
● Research: joint programs
● Innovation: international PPP based in regions
Global partners
● Universities and institutes
● INRA
● Governments
● Civil society organisations
● Businesses, private sector
America
Asia
Africa
Our vision on global knowledge development
International co-operation for food securtiy
The Wageningen approach: biological
The Wageningen approach: biological and social scales
peopleprofitplanet
The Approach: Technology and Socio-economics
Greenhouse as energy source GMO
Agronomy Instituties
shine
Two strategies
Theoretic maximum yield
Actual yield
Theoretic maximum yield
Actual yield
Yield gapDecrease the yield-gap
Yield gap
Increase maximum yield
WT
WT
shine
shine
9 days of drought
1 week after rewatering
Closing the yield gap
Water use efficiency
Young Talents and interdisciplinarity