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Do you want to know how cheese, yogurt and ice cream are made? In this minor you will learn everything about processing milk into various dairy products (small and large scale) and you will make products like cheese, yogurt, butter and ice cream at the dairy pilot facilities…

Have you ever considered what will happen if there is not enough food to go around? Well, here is some food for thought. With the world population on the rise, the demand for food is increasing rapidly. Meanwhile, erosion and depletion of resources is causing a decrease in t…

How would you react if you were offered the opportunity of travelling abroad regularly, meeting and keeping in touch with new people, learning something new about agribusiness every day, and end up getting paid for it? Well, this is what your job would look like if you were …

How would you like to be responsible for the well-being of people and animals all over the world? Just wondering, because the international food sector is in dire need of people who are cool, calm and collected enough to manage global food supply chains. You see, internation…

How would you like the job of managing the supply chain from farm to fork? In today’s world with its global marketplace, a growing population, crisis upon crisis and shortages, getting food to consumers’ plates can feel like herding kittens. On the bright side, a smooth supp…

Minor: Agri-food Value Chains 4.0  Economics and Business Students in the Netherlands need to diversify, as their job prospects, in comparison to other studies, need to be stronger, according to a report by Bakens et al,. (2020) . On the other hand, agriculture, Engineering …

Plants form the basis of life: all food chains, including our own, start with their leaves, fruits and flowers. Crop production, however, faces increased challenges such as climate change, pollution and erosion. Feeding the world therefore requires strong, resilient plant br…

Consider this: would you use a product without knowing if it were safe? Unfortunately, many do this three times a day. People often assume that the food products they use in meal preparation have undergone rigorous testing, ensuring they are fit for human consumption. It's a…

How would you like the job of studying something that is both elusive and all around us? We are talking about a natural resource that all life depends on: water. Water makes up some 71% of the Earth’s surface – so, maybe our blue and green planet should be called Water inste…

Water management is a key component of European and national policies. Climate change and pressure on fresh water resources urge us to manage and redesign our environment to provide a safe and ecologically sound water quality. To describe the ecological status of a water bod…

Did you know that crop farmers around the world are counting on you to solve their problems? The world population is growing and so is its demand for food. This puts food crop production under tremendous pressure. To make things more difficult, farmers have to deal with loss…

What do you think? Do circularity and business go together? Our answer is that somehow they will have to, as climate change, primary raw materials shortages, biodiversity loss, waste and pollution compel us to make the transition from a linear economy to a circular economy. …

Climate change, soil degradation, resource scarcity, obesity and lifestyle-related diseases: our food system is facing multiple challenges. Although different players – from government to corporate – have recognized these challenges, and increased their efforts to design a f…