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Dr Martin Scholten will give a public lecture on European Livestock Farming Research Agenda on 29 April at 5.15pm in the Japan Lecture Theatre. 
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The lecture is part of Dr Scholten&#39;s two week New Zealand tour where he will visit organisations and institutions in his capacity as&#160;the general director of the Wageningen UR Animal Sciences Group (including Livestock Research and Central Veterinary Institute) and director of the Marine Institute Wageningen IMARES.
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<strong>For information on this visit, please contact </strong><a href="mailto:%76i%63%74%6f%72%69%61%2e%68%61t%74on@nza%67%72%63%2e%6f%72g.%6e%7a" title="Click to send an email"><strong>Victoria Hatton</strong></a>
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<strong>Martin Scholten</strong>
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He works for Wageningen UR since 2002, when he became director of the fisheries research institute RIVO (2002-2006). In the period 1986 - 2002 he worked for he applied research organization TNO as head of the marine and ecotoxicological research in Den Helder.
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He studied biology at the Free University Amsterdam (VU), where graduated cum laude in theoretical ecology in 1984. In 2004 he earned his PhD at this university on an ecotoxicological thesis.
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As an ecologist now active in the field of livestock production, he introduced the principles of &quot;feeding the world within the capacity of planet earth by increasing animal protein production with a smaller ecological footprint&quot; and &quot;Livestock Farming with Care&quot;.
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Since 2010 he is chairman of the Livestock Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases.
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