Food Production 2.0

The North is the agricultural region of the Netherlands. It is typified by a distinctive food production that is the result of centuries of...

In 1505 an important step is taken in the North. In that year, on the Bildt, along the Frisian north coast,...

In 1744, the worst of three 18th-century cattle plague waves prevailed. More than half of the livestock die. In particular, the intensive...

In 1841, Willem Albert Scholten (1819-1892) founded a potato flour factory in Foxhol, Groningen. The Scholten concern would grow into the first industrial...

At the end of the 19th century, the economic structure of food production changes. To better cope with problems,...

At the end of the 19th century, an important step is taken in the cooperation of agriculture and knowledge institutions. Through...

Successful grain and potato harvests in the 1920s caused prices on the international market to fall dramatically,...

After World War II, the challenge is to get and keep food supplies up. The "social engineering" of rural...

The year is 1972 when a report is published by the researchers of the Club of Rome. This report, with the significant...

In 1974, the Northern Development Corporation is established to combat economic backwardness and subsequent unemployment in the North....

In the 1980s, the government begins to realize the need to change course. Ecology is gaining ground...

Northern cooperatives merge into larger companies at the end of the twentieth century. This makes the companies resistant to...

Since the turn of the millennium, the broader view of sustainability cannot be missing. Through the knowledge networks, solutions are increasingly being sought to...

In 2011, the Dairy Campus will establish itself in Leeuwarden. This will give the Northern Netherlands back an old experimental farm. The campus is a good...

In the search for solutions to the sustainability transition, regions are becoming increasingly important. For example, the three northern provinces are identified as potential...

As we get closer to the present, we see supranational institutions such as the European Union gaining more influence over food production....

Policy papers are increasingly showing what ideas will shape the food production of the future. The idea of the region plays...

Dutch food production is at a crossroads: there are more and more mouths to feed, but the burden of...