Check out our affiliate projects

Partners of the consortium Breed4Food participate in numerous (inter)national research projects together with other chain partners, universities and research institutes. Some of these research projects are also of special interest to the non-involved partners of Breed4Food and, therefore, are listed as affiliate projects to the PPP Breed4Food III. The leadership of the affiliate projects have approved the access of the affiliated projects for the research community and external stakeholders of Breed4Food. Furthermore, Breed4Food will take initiatives to ensure information exchange that benefit both the participants of the affiliate projects and the Breed4Food partners.

The aim of Climate Smart Cattle Breeding is to phenotype the large population and to develop the innovations needed to enable Dutch dairy farmers to utilize animal breeding to reduce methane emissions...

Intestinal organoids are a key innovative technology to replace animal testing and measure complex traits in animal breeding and nutrition. The objective of this project is to realize a more robust an...

Nevertheless, across livestock species the average number of crossovers per Gb of genome is relatively similar. Our first hypothesis is that this might be a result of a causal relationship between the...

This program has been made possible by a 5 million dollar grant of the Bezos Earth Fund in collaboration with the Global Methane Hub and with the support of University Fund Wageningen. 

The COST Action EU-LI-PHE aims to foster the development, integration, organization and practical implementation of technologies, tools, methods, approaches, models, expertise and resources useful to ...

Climate change, especially heat waves, can negatively impact livestock, now and in the future. This project investigates short- and long-term data-driven solutions for climate adaptation, focusing on ...

The aim of Re-Livestock is to evaluate and mobilize the adoption of innovative practices applied cross scale (animal, herd, farm, sector and region) to reduce Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) of livesto...

The IMAGEN program aims to facilitate the transition towards sustainable livestock production by addressing the social behaviours of animals in groups, which will improve the health and welfare of the...

Check out our historical affiliate projects

Below, you can explore the affiliate projects to which Breed4Food and its partners have contributed over the years.

As methane emission of dairy cows is the main component of this carbon footprint, and the Dutch agriculture is facing the challenge to reduce the methane emissions with 2.1 Mton by 2030, and even furt...

Computer vision, sensor data, data science and genomic research will be used to automatically identify the genetically superior individuals to be used as parents of the next generations of our populat...

The knowledge developed within BovReg should also be particularly applicable to small cattle breeds of regional relevance and distribution and thus contribute to the conservation of biological diversi...

In full coordination and synergy with global effort and ongoing projects of the Functional Annotation of ANimal Genomes (FAANG) community, we will characterize the dynamics (“switches”) of the functio...

Current protocols for cryopreservation (vitrification) of gonadal tissue and embryos are suboptimal and there is significant scope for improvement. In the coming years, livestock breeding companies wi...

Todays’ developments in new technologies provide increased possibilities for using sensor and computer vision approaches to phenotype these (novel) traits on individual animals in a breeding program. 

The initiative will build on current knowledge, analysing chicken and pig populations to quantify the contribution of genetic and epigenetic variation in gene expression, trait variation and trade-off...