Micronutrients: a looming concern for Sub-Saharan agriculture
A PBL study explores how a lack of soil micronutrients puts countries in Sub-Sahara Africa at risk. A range of metals and minerals is essential to sustainably increase agricultural production. Though...
Better grassland fertilisation can improve the world’s food supply
Global improvements in grassland management could see grasslands taking on a significantly more important role in food production. Better management would increase the production of meat and milk and...
Philosophers’ Dialogue on Nature in Modern Society, Now and in the Future – Watch the videos!
On 11 November 2015, renowned philosophers Bruno Latour, Roger Scruton, Wilhelm Schmid and Annemarie Mol engaged in an inspirational, thought-provoking exchange of ideas on the fundamental value of...
Biodiversity: further decline or bending the trend? A new animated film
What is happening to life on earth? What are the pressures affecting biological diversity globally, and what can be done to stop its decline? This short animated film brings you to the year 2050 and...
PhD promotion Arthur Beusen: ‘Transport of nutrients from land to sea’
On 19 September PBL researcher Arthur Beusen obtained his PhD at the Utrecht University. His thesis is titled ‘Transport of nutrients from land to sea: Global modeling approaches and uncertainty...
Fertiliser surpluses are expected to increase, globally, over de next fifty years. This is mainly due to increases in livestock farming, the manure of which is causing ever increasing amounts of...
Through the new web dossier “Integral Nitrogen” MNP communicates its international publications and activities related to nitrogen. Nitrogen compounds (reactive nitrogen) are accumulating in the...
The Water Framework Directive: challenges and chances for the Netherlands
The European Water Framework Directive stipulates that the quality of groundwater and surface water in the Netherlands should have attained an ecologically adequate level by 2015. A major national...