From nitrate hotspots to hard choices: FARMWISE at EGU 2026

Some scientific problems are easier to find than to fix. Nitrate pollution in groundwater is one of them: diffuse, stubborn, and deeply bound up with the way food is grown across Europe. It can be mapped. It can be measured. But deciding what to do about it, where to act first, and how to balance […]

Drawing Down the Well

For three days in May, Hamburg played host to a question with no easy answer: how can Europe’s farmers keep working the land as the water they depend on grows scarcer and less predictable? The occasion was the EU CAP Network conference “Water Resilience: The role of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in promoting sustainable […]

Standing in for the team: FARMWISE takes its climate-resilience research to Vienna

When you have spent months building a model and you finally have results worth sharing, the natural reward is to stand up in front of your peers and present them yourself. This year, one of Wageningen University’s hydrogeologists could not make that journey to Vienna, so FARMWISE partner Syed Mustafa carried his work there for […]