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Based in Wageningen, the Netherlands, Kind of Green^® Consulting provides strategic advice for future-proof, sustainable agriculture.

Kind of Green^® capitalizes on a quarter of a century of international experience in agriculture and sustainability, solidly based on relevant PhD and MSc degrees from Wageningen University. For enquiries, kindly leave a message through the contact form. Also, please feel free to browse some of our blogs and news items.

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A blog, in Dutch, about the new “National Programme Rural Areas” and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands

To visitors of the English part of the site, it may sometimes look as if not much is happening here. That may not entirely be true… for example, we published a new blog, in Dutch, on the “National Programme Rural Areas”  (literal translation) that we have in the Netherlands, since 2022. This programme aims to reach a number of highly ambitious goals in terms of nitrogen deposition, water quality and quantity and greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. This blog focuses on the latter topic, and especially on the question whether  agricultural “extensification” is a suitable manner to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Dutch national policy makers seem to have little doubt about this. International footprinting standards and scientific research, however, also contain other clues… Read more (in Dutch); an English translation may follow later this year.