C h a i r G r o u p P l a n t P r o d u c t i o n S y s t e m s
Dr. Nico de Ridder
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Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen |
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+31 (0)317 483073 |
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nico.deridder@wur.nl |
Senior Lecturer (Associate professor)
Research
Land use analysis at farm and regional levels in tropical countries using instruments like simulation models, linear programming techniques and Technical Coefficient Generators (TCG’s). Crop (and cropping) and animal (and livestock) production systems are designed and quantified as building blocks for analysis at farm and regional scales.
Keywords: land use modelling, system analysis, cropping and livestock systems, farming systems.
- Retrieve and develop agro-ecological knowledge for land use studies
Other responsibilities
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Users committee of 'Proefbedrijf Plant Wetenschappen' (Experimental Farmfacilities for Plant Sciences)
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Research administration chair group
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Co-ordination sandwich PhD students of the chair group
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Co-promoter or supervisor of PhD students
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Teaching
All WUR publications since 2000
Key publications
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Van de Giesen, N.C., T.J. Stomph and N. de Ridder, 2000. Scale effects of Hortonian overland flow and rainfall-runoff dynamics in a West African catena landscape. Hydrological Processes 14, 165-175.
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G. van de Ven, N. de Ridder, M.K. van Ittersum & H. van Keulen, 2003. Concepts in production ecology for analysis and design of animal and animal-plant production systems. Agricultural Systems 76: 507-525.
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Van Langevelde, F., C.A.D.M. van de Vijver, L. Kumar, J. van de Koppel, N. de Ridder, J. van Andel, A.K. Skidmore, J.W. Hearne, L. Stroosnijder, H.H.T. Prins & M. Rietkerk (2003). Effects of fire and herbivory on the stability of savanna ecosystems. Ecology 84(2): 337-350.
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N. de Ridder, H. Breman, H. van Keulen & T.J. Stomph, 2004. Revisiting a ‘cure against land hunger’: soil fertility management and farming systems dynamics in the West African Sahel. Agricultural Systems 80: 109-131.
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L. Hein & N. de Ridder, 2006. Desertification in the Sahel; a Reinterpretation. Global Change Biology 12, 751-758.
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K.E. Giller, E. Rowe, N. de Ridder & H. van Keulen, 2006. Resource use dynamics and interactions in the tropics: Moving to the scale of the ‘livelihood’. Agricultural Systems 88, 8-27.
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Cittadini, E.D., N. de Ridder, P.L. Peri & H. van Keulen, 2006. A method for assessing frost damage risk in sweet cherry orchards of South Patagonia. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 141: 235-243.
Career
Nico de Ridder was born on the 24th of March 1950 in Kabandjahé, a small village near the Toba-lake, Sumatra (Indonesia). He graduated (cum laude) at the University of Utrecht in Botanical Ecophysiology with Soil Science, Biology and Society, and Pedagogic and Didactics of Biology as additional subjects.
During his career he worked subsequently in Mali (the project "Production Primaire au Sahel"), in Israel (Hebrew University in Jerusalem based at the Migda/Gilat Research Station near Beersheva), in Wageningen (the Agricultural University at the department of Theoretical Production Ecology), in Ethiopia (the International Livestock Center for Africa (ILCA), Addis Ababa), in Wageningen (Centre for Agro-Biological Research), and in Burkina Faso (for the University of Groningen, at the University of Ouagadougou).
Since May 1992 he is employed by the Wageningen University and Research (WUR) centre as a senior lecturer. From 1992 to 1999 he was attached to the chair group Tropical Land Use. In 1997, he obtained his PhD at this university. From 1999 onwards he joined the chair group Plant Production Systems. His current research is on the topic of farming systems research and modelling.
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