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Daniel van de Velden

Daniël van der Velden
PhD student

Department of agricultural economics
INSPIRA
Ghent University
Coupure links 653
Office A1.---
9000 Ghent, Belgium
 daniel.vandervelden@ugent.be

Bio

Daniël van der Velden received his MSc in Development and Rural Innovation from Wageningen University in 2019, where his research focused on how crop farmers are engaging with precision agriculture. Since the beginning of 2020 he works as a doctoral student at ILVO and the UGent.

Research

Daniël currently works within the EU Horizon2020 project DESIRA which seeks to improve the capacity of society to respond to the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation in rural areas. He specifically focuses on the potential for digital technologies in monitoring agri-environmental performance of intensive livestock farms.

Keywords

  • Digital Agriculture
  • Agricultural innovation systems
  • Agri-environmental governance