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

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…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

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Two strategies

Theoretic maximum yield

Actual yield

Theoretic maximum yield

Actual yield

Yield gapDecrease the yield-gap

Yield gap

Increase maximum yield

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9 days of drought

1 week after rewatering

Closing the yield gap

Water use efficiency

Young Talents and interdisciplinarity