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. 


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 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.


For information on this visit, please contact Victoria Hatton


Martin Scholten


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.


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.


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;.


Since 2010 he is chairman of the Livestock Research Group of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases.