Niels Louwaars

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Dark Skies Over Global Food Security. Why Are Those Over Europe Still Blue?

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) became a major pillar under the European cooperation after the Union for Coal and Steel ventured into a wider...

Myth: Private Breeding Can Feed the World

The public sector still takes a major place in the global plant breeding efforts. Variety development started in Western Europe in the private sector...

Who is Driving Sustainability?

Since the Brundtland report, the word ‘sustainability’ has not lost importance in society even though it became a container that could be filled with...

Free Seeds – A Present From Hell

When farmers are in despair, humanitarian food supplies are imperative to lessen human suffering and death. The need for such actions is in the...

Puritans and Blenders: A Deep Dive into Variety Mixtures

Discussions are ongoing in OECD with regard to the certification of variety mixtures in more crops than just the grasses and maize mixtures (such...

Village Policies Are All Around Us

Policy making is not an easy task. The famous insight ‘governing is anticipating’ is increasingly difficult with populist trends more and more affecting us....

From Moral to Legal Obligation – Have We Done Enough?

Is corporate social responsibility becoming a legal liability? That is a question with the upcoming legislation on International Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Europe....

Sustainable Seed Systems, a basis for UNFSS!

The whole world is discussing the sustainability of food systems in the run up to the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) in September...

When Will Bio-Reaganomics Finally Come To An End?

Why is it that we cannot create a working system of biodiversity management? Debates have been going on about the question how to conserve...

We are the Guardians of Modern Agriculture!

The Farm-to-Fork Strategy (F2F) of the Green Deal, presented by the European Commission in May 2020 triggered a wide range of responses. “It is...