Project listing for Alterra Wageningen-UR
Alterra is the research institute for our green living environment. We offer a combination of practical and scientific research in a multitude of disciplines related to the green world around us and the sustainable use of our living environment. Flora and fauna, soil, water, the environment, geo-information and remote sensing, landscape and spatial planning, man and society: just a few of the numerous aspects of our green environment that Alterra focuses on.
Alterra is part of the Wageningen University and Research Centre concern (Wageningen UR). In research and education we closely co-operate with the school of Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University. With this partner we contribute to a high quality and sustainable green living environment. The exchange of expertise and capacity and the match between fundamental and practical research in various projects give us a scientific advantage.
Our projects (17 results)
| Name | Country | Continent | Status | Latest update |
Partners |
Focus area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Preventing and managing diffuse pollution The consortium aims to conduct a feasibility study to determine whether it can support the province... |
China |
Asia |
Complete |
Not yet |
Grontmij |
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Irrigated agriculture and water management After the collapse of the Soviet Union the performance of irrigated agriculture decreased... |
Ukraine |
Europe |
Active |
Not yet |
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AquaStress Tadla irrigates about 100,000 hectares and is one of the most important agricultural areas in... |
Morocco |
Africa |
Complete |
Not yet |
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Water for Food and Ecosystems In the Baviaanskloof various land and water problems have become manifest, such as increased hill... |
South Africa |
Africa |
Complete |
Not yet |
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Desert meteorology in Arabia The mountainous South-west of Saudi-Arabia has rain in the winter season due to orographic lifting... |
Saudi Arabia |
Asia |
Complete |
Not yet |
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Integrated water resource management in Egypt The Egyptian–Dutch Advisory Panel on Land Drainage was established in 1976 and is the oldest... |
Egypt |
Africa |
Active |
Not yet |
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Improvement of Agricultural Water Management In the Yellow River Basin irrigated agriculture covers 10% of the total area, but consumes 95% of... |
China |
Asia |
Active |
Not yet |
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REFRESH: Fresh water experiments The foundation for REFRESH was laid in the EU Framework 6 project Euro-limpacs: Integrated Project... |
Netherlands |
Europe |
Active |
Not yet |
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Water Saving Technologies In southern Europe and the New Independent States (NIS, former USSR) inefficient use is made of... |
Russian Federation |
Europe |
Complete |
Not yet |
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Risk reduction of pesticide stocks in Africa Stockpiles of pesticides have created a serious problem in Africa In 2007, an investigation mission... |
Active |
Not yet |
