Wageningen University & Research is a Dutch research institution founded in 1876. It combines an agricultural university and research institutes. The university has over 10,000 students across various faculties including agriculture, food science, environmental science, social sciences and plant sciences. The research institutes focus on areas like livestock, food safety, marine sciences and more. Wageningen UR has over 6,000 employees and conducts research on key issues like food security, health, climate change and sustainability. It collaborates widely with organizations in Latin America like CIAT on projects, student exchanges and research.

1. Wageningen University & Research centre
Ria Hulsman, Gerente de cooperación con América Latina, Wageningen UR

2. La historia de dos
Fundado en 1876 como un polytécnico
En 1918 formalmente reconocido como Uni
En 1877 fundación del primer
instituto de experimentación
1998 se juntan La Universidad y los Institutos de
Investigación Agrícola a
Wageningen University & Research centre

3. Wageningen Campus
Gateway to smart food in a green world
El campus de Wageningen UR

4. Wageningen Campus

5. Wageningen University: chair groups
• Agro technology & Food Sciences (18)
• Animas Sciences (12)
• Environmental Sciences (17)
• Plant Sciences (18)
• Social Sciences (21)
Google: “chair groups Wageningen”

6. Research centre: 11 institutes
Google: “research institutes Wageningen”

7. Wageningen
International (WI)
Wageningen
Academy (WA)
Wageningen Education
Institute (OWI)
Wageningen Graduate
Schools (WGS)
Organisation Structure
Food &
Biobased
Research
Livestock
Research
Central
Veterinary
Institute
Alterra
LEI
Centre for
Development
Innovation
Plant Research
International
Applied Plant
Research
Agrotechnology
& Food Science
Animal Sciences
Environmental
Sciences
Social SciencesPlant Sciences
Agrotechnology
& Food
Sciences Group
Animal
Sciences Group
Environmental
Sciences Group
Social
Sciences Group
Plant
Sciences Group
Supervisory Board
Executive Board
Concern Staff Facilities & Services
Wageningen University
IMARES RIKILT
Marine
Sciences
Food
Safety
Wageningen Research

8. Wageningen UR (University y Research)
 6,000 employees
 10.000 students (> 100 countries)
 Office in China
 Best in Agriculture & Forestry!!!!
Rector
Prof dr. ir. Arthur Mol
Presidenta
Prof dr. ir. Louise Fresco
Miembro
Dr. Thijs Breukink

9. Educación
1,900 Doctorado
(60% internat.)
4,200 Maestría
(45% internat.)
4,200 Licenciatura
(10% internat.)
29
Maestrías
(Inglés)
20
estudios
licenciatura
(holandés)
PhD: 4 años
Msc: 2 años
Bsc: 3 años

10. MSc & PhD students 2015-2016
MSc
Mexico 66
Ecuador 37
Colombia 20
Costa Rica 9
Peru 9
Chile 7
Brazil 6
Surinam 5
Bolivia 1
Guatamala 1
Honduras 1
162
PhD
Brazil 44
Mexico 24
Colombia 23
Ecuador 19
Costa Rica 14
Chile 12
Peru 10
Uruguay 6
Bolivia 5
Argentina 3
Honduras 2
Venezuela 2
Cuba 1
Guatamala 1
Nicaragua 1
Sintkitts en Nevis 1
168
66
37
20
9
9
7
6
5
1 1 1
MSc
Mexico
Ecuador
Colombia
Costa Rica
Peru
Chile
Brazil
Surinam
44
24
23
19
14
12
10
6
5 3 2 2 1
1
1 1
PhD
Brazil
Mexico
Colombia
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Chile
Peru
Uruguay
Bolivia
Argentina
Honduras
Venezuela

11. Core activities
ResearchEducation Value creationResearch

12. El ámbito de Wageningen UR
El medio ambiente
para vivir
Producción de alimentos y
productos biobasados
Salud humana, estilo de
vida y sustento

13. Research priorities
 A Global One Health
 Resource Use Efficiency
 Resilience
 Metropolitan Solutions
 Synthetic Biology

14. Resilience thinking and resilience research

15. Thematic priorities & sub-themes
within resilience research
Problem areas Methodological approach
Define Measure Influence
Environmental issues
(incl. Ecosystem services,
biodiversity)
Subtheme 1:
Defining resilience across
problem areas and
disciplines, with special
focus on the system
features to be preserved,
maintained or stimulated,
the choice of levels,
cascading instability, and
panarchy
Subtheme 2:
Measuring resilience
across problem areas and
disciplines through
quantitative system
modelling, with special
focus on resilience
indicators in different
systems and predictive
modelling (identifying
early warning signals)
Subtheme 3:
Influencing resilience
across problem areas and
disciplines,with special
focus on designing
systems with adaptive
capacity, organizing
adaptive governance, and
creating technical and
societal conditions that
enable mutually
reinforcing resilience at all
scales
Climate Change (incl.
regional resilience)
Healthy Food for Healthy
Life (incl. Supply chains)
Food & Nutrition
Security (incl.
Production
Subtheme 4: Define-measure-influence resilience at different levels of agrifood
systems (from individual to household and community to national and
international society, and across different social sub-systems)

16. Resource Use Efficiency ?
Metropolitan Solutions ?
Resilience :
Wageningen UR
Environmental issues (incl. Ecosystem
services, biodiversity)
Climate Change (incl. regional
resilience)
Healthy Food for Healthy Life (incl.
Supply chains)
Food & Nutrition Security (incl.
Production
CIAT
Ecosyst services & landscape rest.
Agrobiodiversity
Livestock Plus
Soils & sustainable intensification
Policy
CCAFS
Value chains for nutrition
LINK
Sustainable Food systems (obesity, food
waste, urban
Beans & Cassave
Soils & sust. intensification
CCAFS
Livestock +
Sustainable Food Syst (obesity, waste

17. Wageningen UR in Colombia
 Coffee & Water
 How to get more milk in dry season
 What’s in the palm oil bunch?
 Gender in extractive industry
 What’s in Cape Gooseberry?
 In preparation: exchange UNAL

18. Colaboration CIAT - WUR
 Courses in Latin America
 PhD (external & sandwich)
 Collaborative research
 Sabbaticals
 MSc internships
 Lectures
 Joint positions

19. Proyectos internacionales
Offices in Brazil, China and Ethiopia

21. …To explore the potential of nature,
to improve the quality of life…
¡Gracias!
Ria Hulsman
ria.hulsman@wur.nl