REPORTS

Published by the National Council for Agricultural Research (NRLO), as from January 1997

Please note that most NRLO reports are written in Dutch language. When ''SUMMARY" is added in the listing below, a summary in English is available. When "FULL TEXT" is added, the entire report is written in English. Without "SUMMARY" or "FULL TEXT", the report is written in Dutch only.

Ordered by themes of NRLO's foresight programme:

Agriculture and Society
Rural Development
Agrochemicals, Nutrients and Energy in Agricultural Systems
Globalization and Agribusiness
Markets and Consumer Behaviour
Animal Health
Fish and Fisheries
Organizing Innovation
Dynamics of Science and Technology

Other reports

In the listing below, final Foresight Reports are presented in frames

Agriculture and Society

A History of repelling and attracting (Report 97/39; SUMMARY)
Finished and done with? Agriculture, country planning and design (Report 97/40)
Agriculture: shop-window of societal issues (Report 97/41; No summary available)
On continuity and change: the constants of agricultural development (Report 97/42; SUMMARY)
Agriculture in society: Future initiatives for knowledge and innovation (Report 98/1E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Agribusiness - Knowledge and Innovation Priorities; Aspirations for the 21st century (Report 98/20E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)

Rural Development

Knowledge in rural innovation (Report 97/33; SUMMARY)
Rural Areas put on the Map - Knowledge and Innovation Priorities; Aspirations for the 21st century (Report 98/19E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Innovation and learning - knowledge management and rural innovation (Report 99/13; SUMMARY)
Knowledge in urban innovation (Report 99/15; SUMMARY)

Agrochemicals, Nutrients and Energy in Agricultural Systems

Facts and figures on changes in the environmental burden of agriculture (Report 97/4; SUMMARY)
Designs for a clean agriculture (Report 97/5; SUMMARY)
Instrumenting learning processes (Report 97/6; SUMMARY)
An exploration of institutional arrangements (Report 97/7; SUMMARY)
Not through government regulation alone (Report 97/8; SUMMARY)
Contours and Silhouettes of agriculture and the environment in 2015 (Report 97/9; SUMMARY)
The socio-administrative feasibility of solutions (Report 97/10; SUMMARY)
Environmental targets and policies for agriculture in Europe (Report 97/18; SUMMARY)
Towards a healthy animal production in 2015 (Report 97/30; SUMMARY)
Agro-Ecosystem Health - Symposium Proceedings (Report 97/31; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Agriculture and environment: Future initiatives for knowledge and innovation (Report 98/4E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Agribusiness - Knowledge and Innovation Priorities; Aspirations for the 21st century (Report 98/20E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)

Globalization and Agribusiness

Views on agribusiness and internationalization - Images of the future, strategies and knowledge management: interviews with key actors (Report 97/11; SUMMARY)
Agribusiness, R&D and internationalization - Internationalization strategies of agribusiness firms and their implications for the firms' knowledge management (Report 97/12; SUMMARY)
Government, R&D and globalization (Report 97/13; SUMMARY)
Agricultural policy and internationalization - Developments and dilemmas in agricultural policy towards 2015 (Report 97/14; SUMMARY)
Knowledge organizations and internationalization - The position of agro-food related knowledge organizations in the international knowledge market (Report 97/15; SUMMARY)
Globalisation and agribusiness: Future initiatives for knowledge and innovation (Report 98/2E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Agribusiness - Knowledge and Innovation Priorities; Aspirations for the 21st century (Report 98/20E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)

Markets and Consumer Behaviour

Bio-active components in food (Report 97/16; SUMMARY)
Food production: consumer wishes and technology required (Report 97/22; SUMMARY)
Market strategies and consumer behaviour: Future initiatives for knowledge and innovation (Report 98/3E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Agribusiness - Knowledge and Innovation Priorities; Aspirations for the 21st century (Report 98/20E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Mass-individualisation and the agro-food complex (Report 99/16; SUMMARY)

Animal Health

Towards a healthy animal production in 2015 (Report 97/30; SUMMARY)
Towards healthy animal production: Future initiatives for knowledge and innovation (Report 98/5E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
Agribusiness - Knowledge and Innovation Priorities; Aspirations for the 21st century (Report 98/20E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)

Fish and Fisheries

Fisheries Mangement Policies towards 2010 - Scenarios and Science and Technology Needs (Report 97/29; SUMMARY)
Fishing for research - a scenarios study on fisheries and eco-system (Report 97/35; SUMMARY)
Aquaculture in the Netherlands: opportunities and threats (Report 98/8; SUMMARY)
Oceans of opportunities - essays on aquatic biomass (Report 98/10; SUMMARY)
Fisheries and Aquaculture- Knowledge and Innovation Priorities; Aspirations for the 21st century (Report 98/18E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
The Netherlands as a European centre for distribution of fish products (Report 99/18; SUMMARY)

Organizing Innovation

Challenges and concepts for future agricultural knowledge policy (Report 97/17; SUMMARY)
Coping with turbulence; strategies for agricultural research institutes (Report 97/27; FULL TEXT)
Innovation processes in Dutch agriculture and horticulture towards 2015 - essays and reflections (Report 97/44; SUMMARY)
Co-operation in innovation - organisational concepts (Report 98/7; SUMMARY)
Horticultural Research in The Netherlands: changes and challenges for 2010 (Conference paper; NRLO Report 98/26; FULL TEXT, including SLIDES)
Initiative Sustainable Food Supply - Design of a businessplan (Report 98/27; SUMMARY)
Innovating with ambition - Opportunities for agribusiness and, rural areas and the fishing industry (Report 99/17E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)

Dynamics of Science and Technology

Method for quality assessment of the agricultural knowledge infrastructure - An analysis from three case studies (Report 97/23; SUMMARY)
Agrophysics, information and communication technology in crop production (Report 97/24; SUMMARY)
Soil biology in crop production (Report 97/25; SUMMARY)
Opportunities for processing and distribution (Report 97/26; SUMMARY)
Opportunities for animal production (Report 97/32; SUMMARY)
Molecular biology in plants (Report 97/36; SUMMARY)
Crop production systems and production ecology (Report 97/37; SUMMARY)
Data warehouse new emerging markets (Report 97/38; SUMMARY)
Control theories and rural areas (Report 98/11; SUMMARY)
ICT: control and design opportunities for rural areas (Report 98/12; SUMMARY)
Rural areas and technological innovations in traffic and transport (Report 98/13; SUMMARY)
ICT and mobility and location selection in rural areas (Report 98/14; SUMMARY)
Soil sanitation and water management in rural areas (Report 98/15; SUMMARY)
Energy technology in rural areas (Report 98/16; SUMMARY)
Science and Technology - Opportunities for agribusiness and, rural areas and the fishing industry (Report 99/1E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)
The evaluation of university research (Report 99/12E; SUMMARY and FULL TEXT)

Other reports

Living in diversity - Recommendations by RMNO and NRLO for the Biodiversity Stimulation Programme (Report 97/19a; and RMNO report 127a)
Input-output relationships and decison-making by farmers (Report 97/21; SUMMARY)
Chains and the development of the country (Report 97/34; SUMMARY)
Town and country in interaction: a programme for basic strategic research (Report 98/17; SUMMARY)
Agri-logistics towards 2015 (Report 98/23; SUMMARY)
The future of agricultural education (Report 98/24; SUMMARY)
Article in World Development, 26(1998)6 on The Transformation of the Dutch Agricultural Research System: an Unfinished Agenda (Abstract)
Paper presented at Conference on ‘Towards an agenda for agricultural research in Europe’, Wageningen, April 13-15, 1999 (Slides presentation)
English chapters from Annual Reports 1996-1998
Chapter in book: Financing Agricultural R&D in the Netherlands

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