The Louis Bolk Institute is committed to a resilient, healthy and fair system of agriculture, food and human health, with impact in practice.
We are an independent research institute linking science, policy and practice from a systems approach:
• by making a difference together with and in practice;
• in an innovative way;
• with a certain amount of daring.
We do so, principally, in the role of researchers developing knowledge and subsequently making this knowledge available, providing advice and process support, and thus having an impact in practice.
Within the breeding group, we mainly focus on variety evaluation in crops like cereals, pulses and fibre crops, or coordinate participatory breeding programmes (like potato).