Wageningen
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Wageningen

Administration
Full nameWageningen
Settlement typeMunicipality
MottoCity of Life Sciences
CountryNetherlands
ProvinceGelderland
MunicipalityWageningen
Government
MayorG.J.M. (Geert) van Rumund
AldermenS.L. (Stella) Efdé
M.H. (Mariëtte) Kroes
I.A. (Ingeborg) Stadhouders
M.S.G. (Minie) Walma-Schreur
SecretaryJ. (Jaap) Diepeveen
Geography
Total Area12.5 sq mi (32.35 km2)
Land Area11.8 sq mi (30.57 km2)
Water Area0.7 sq mi (1.88 km2)
Demography
Total Population36492 (31 May 2009)
Density (pop.)1198/km2 (3102.8/sq mi)
Other information
Time zoneCET (UTC+1)
- Summer (DST)CEST (UTC+2)
Postal codes6700 - 6709
Area code0317

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is a municipality and a historical town in the central Netherlands, in the province of Gelderland. It is famous for Wageningen University, which specializes in life sciences. The city has 36,224 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2009), of which many thousands are students. The university and associated institutes, now consolidated in Wageningen University and Research Center (WUR), employs about 7400 people. Wageningen also is the central city in Food Valley. Food Valley is the Dutch food & nutrition cluster concentrated around WUR and comprising many institutes, companies and state-of-the-art facilities in the food & nutrition field. Food Valley is regarded as the largest food & nutrition Research & Development cluster in the world. The current mayor of Wageningen is mr. Geert van Rumund.

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Insects may solve food shortage for growing world population - DigitalJournal.com Tweet this news
DigitalJournal.com---Wageningen- - FAO is seriously considering issuing a policy statement recommending the farming and consumption of insects on concerns that population growth ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:44:52 GMT+00:00
New website to showcase nano packaging and ingredient project - FoodProductionDaily.com Tweet this news
FoodProductionDaily.com--Project leader Dr Stefan Weigel, Institute for Food Safety within -Wageningen- University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, ... - Date : Tue, 10 Aug 2010 11:53:24 GMT+00:00
Plaice stocks thriving but supplies will remain low - AgraNet (subscription) Tweet this news
AgraNet (subscription)--"North Sea plaice is doing fine again," says Jan Jaap Poos, fisheries biologist at -Wageningen- UR's marine research department, IMARES. ... - Date : Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:18:47 GMT+00:00
For the record - The Guardian Tweet this news
The Guardian---Wageningen- University is in the Netherlands, not Belgium ("Eat insects to save the world", News). "Forget shelf life, the best titles have an afterlife" ... - Date : Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:06:05 GMT+00:00
Windsor Star Readers Guide - Windsor Star Tweet this news
Windsor Star--Right now is a prime time to start paying off debt, writes Star business editor Ellen Van -Wageningen- in her blog, Ellen on Windsor Business.--- - Date : Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:52:26 GMT+00:00
HPMC Cuts Oil Uptake in Fried Snacks - Food Product Design Tweet this news
Food Product Design---WAGENINGEN-, The Netherlands�Crispy fried snacks are a guilty pleasure, but in this day of health consciousness consumers are increasingly shying away from ... - Date : Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:27:03 GMT+00:00
United Nations calls for insect diet to replace red meat - meatinfo.co.uk Tweet this news
meatinfo.co.uk--Research by Professor Arnold van Huis, an entomologist at -Wageningen- University in Belgium, has found that if people in developing countries were to replace ... - Date : Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:17:23 GMT+00:00
Curbing Domestic Violence in Chickens - Science Now Tweet this news
Science Now--According to bird-welfare researcher Bas Rodenburg of -Wageningen- University in the Netherlands, the best explanation is that they've evolved to peck for ... - Date : Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:00:21 GMT+00:00
Local tech firm on track for profit - Windsor Star Tweet this news
Windsor Star--Technology used to help construction companies track equipment isn't new, but Windsor's Mike Peters ... - Date : Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:21:33 GMT+00:00
The Way - FemaleFirst.co.uk Tweet this news
FemaleFirst.co.uk---...- lives: a Dutchman (Yorik van -Wageningen-) a Canadian (Deborah Kara Unger) and an Irish writer (James nesbitt) who is suffering from a bout of writer's block.--- - Date : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:49:35 GMT+00:00

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