‼️New paper in scope of the WeLASER Eco-innovative weeding with laser "European stakeholders’ perspectives on implementation potential of precision weed control: the case of autonomous vehicles with laser treatment" 🌱⚡️Department of Agricultural Economics UGent link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Now that it's official... I'm excited to share our newly awarded 2-year grant for our project on food upcycling! I look forward to working with vegetable post-harvest losses in the Salad Bowl region of the Philippines. 🧵🥕🌱 Department of Agricultural Economics UGent Saint Louis University #phdvoice #AcademicChatter

For our New Year's activity, we immersed our colleagues in the typical Belgian pastime that is a quiz, testing knowledge on international, Belgian, Ghentian and work-related facts, accompanied with a variety of cheeses, wines, beers and ciders. What a great evening!

Yesterday we attended the Francqui Chair inaugural lecture UAntwerpen of our very own Wim Verbeke, professor of agri-food marketing and consumer behaviour, titled "A quarter century of protein transition: insights from agri-food marketing and consumer research" Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent UGent

Honoured to invite you to the guest lecture of Prof. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (@bsky.social), organized within our courses 'Economics and Management of Natural Resources' and 'Sustainability and Environmental Economics' on Monday, March 18th at 10:30 in Auditorium E3 on Campus Coupure, Ghent. Department of Agricultural Economics UGent

A full auditorium for the guest lecture titled 'Climate Change and International Negotiations: Why and How?'. After a crash course on climate change science, we delved into the topic of negotiations on the international level and how past agreements were made in the IPCC.

It's always a gratifying feeling to give a lecture at your alma mater, thank you Department of Agricultural Economics UGent UGent for the kind invitation 🙏🏿 #LeanManagement & #FoodProcessing It all stared here 😊

Our professors Hans De Steur and Christine Yung Hung were recently invited to teach on consumer behaviour and food economics during the Spring School at Quy Nhon University in Viet Nam within the context of an Institutional University Cooperation (IUC) with UGent through VLIRUOS!

Had an amazing time teaching the course Environmental Law and Management with prof. em. Guido Van Huylenbroeck at the Ghent University Global Campus in Incheon, South Korea. And when all the way in South Korea, one cannot but explore the country! Department of Agricultural Economics UGent Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent UGent

PhD researcher Margo Degieter presented a study on the economic feasibility of tempeh powder production from different substrates (fava bean, chickpea, quinoa, lentils) at the closing SmartProtein project (EC-H2020) at the Proveg conference in Berlin! smartproteinproject.eu

Excited to share that my first paper, titled 'Assessing the agroecological performance and sustainability of Community Supported Agriculture farms in Flanders, Belgium', has been published! Together with @JDessein, Dario Lucantoni and Stijn Speelman. Department of Agricultural Economics UGent Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent Food and Agriculture Organization

Stakeholders’ evaluation of tissue culture #plants: evidence from #social, #economic, and #agronomic studies. To read this new #review article in JHSB, visit: buff.ly/4byj1Bn #TissueCulture #micropropagation #invitro #biotechnology Department of Agricultural Economics UGent

Blij dat ons onderzoek naar de agro-ecologische prestatie en duurzaamheid van Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in Vlaanderen ook de weg heeft gevonden naar de vakpers! CSA-Netwerk-Vlaanderen Voedsel Anders Vlaanderen @JDessein Department of Agricultural Economics UGent Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent

Many of our colleagues are often working abroad for field work, lecturing and conferences. But since we managed to get many together during our annual summer activity, we couldn't help but try to take a Department of Agricultural Economics Family Photo! Faculty of Bioscience Engineering UGent UGent

<<🎓#PhD opportunity>>Passionate about improving public health? We are looking for a doctoral researcher to map and address the #commercial drivers of #tobacco🚬 #alcohol🍷#unhealthyfood🍟 consumption in #Belgium! Sciensano + Department of Agricultural Economics UGent jobs.sciensano.be/content/jobpag… (By 25th Sept)

Wist je dat de Vlaamse sector van vleesvervangers en plantaardige eiwitten booming is? Joachim Schouteten, professor aan onze faculteit én expert in alternatieve eiwitten, geeft inzicht in de groei van deze sector en wijst op de uitdagingen én kansen. vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024…

🚜Pleidooi voor meer landbouwstages in het onderwijs!🌾 Ruben Savels, PhD-student aan onze faculteit, pleit voor een bredere aanpak in landbouwonderwijs. Volgens hem wordt de kloof tussen landbouw en natuur al op de schoolbanken gecreëerd. 👉tinyurl.com/3ccyadn8 UGent

From today onwards you can find us on LinkedIn! Make sure to follow us there to keep in touch with our work. We will stay here on X too. linkedin.com/company/depart…