Writing
Wageningen UR
A short note on the exchange year that pushed biotech and organic agriculture into the same frame.
The exchange at Wageningen was less important as a credential than as a conceptual shift.
It was the point where biotech stopped looking separate from organic agriculture and started looking like part of the same practical toolkit. That framing stuck. The interesting work was not ideological purity in either direction, but knowing how to take the strongest methods from both and use them where they actually improved outcomes.
That period set up a lot of what came afterward: applied plant science, process-minded experimentation, and a preference for systems that can move from theory into field or production use.