Towards a Greener Planet
A small meadow, located between Leeuwarden and Marssum, enclosed by three ditches (photo: Sander de Vries, 1986). Today is 11 November, not only the name day of Saint Martin, but also the birthday of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., I just learned, … Continued
A project on digestate nutrient valorization was kicked off at Wageningen campus, the Netherlands, on Friday, April 12th 2019. Support equivalent of 40k Euros has been granted from the Dutch ‘Top Sectors’ Agri & Food and Horticulture & Starting Materials … Continued
Together with NB Advies/Databoerin, Kind of Green Consulting is presently engaged in the development of a decision support service for Dutch starch potato farmers. Development of the underlying system, which will employ satellite data and crop growth models, among others, … Continued
The December 2018 issue of NVOX, the Dutch magazine for education in the natural sciences, featured our article on “Circular Agriculture” in the Netherlands. NVOX is published by the Dutch Society for Education in the Natural Sciences (NVON) and is … Continued
A radically new, raster-based type of crop growth simulation model was recently developed in the context of the G4INDO (Geodata for crop insurance in Indonesia) project, sponsored by the Netherlands Space Office (NSO). The model is described in a new … Continued
Green plants produce carbohydrates and oxygen out of CO2, using sunlight. Human beings and animals do exactly the opposite: they ‘burn’ carbohydrates with oxygen, releasing energy and exhaling CO2. Combine these two processes, as they occur together in nature, and … Continued
Tanzania, May 14-17, 2018 What would be the minimum nitrogen input required for growing maize at a certain location in Sub Saharan Africa? At Kind of Green®, we’ve recently developed a mobile Android app to answer precisely that question, based … Continued
From April 1, 2018, Kind of Green® will be providing crop modelling advice and support to Agricompas, Limited, in the context of the EcoProMIS project in Colombia. Agricompas is an agricultural data analytics company based in Oxford, UK, providing knowledge … Continued
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, January 2017. Early 2017, Sander de Vries of Kind of Green® was a keynote speaker at the International Conference for Sustainable Agriculture (ICOSA) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. “Global Yield Gap Analysis to Map Options for Sustainable Intensification” was the … Continued
On January 17th, 2017, Dr. Sander C. de Vries of Kind of Green gave a keynote presentation at the International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture (ICOSA), organized by the Department of Agrotechnology of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY), Yogyakarta, Indonesia. He spoke … Continued
