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Mansholt Graduate School of Social Sciences (MG3S) conducts top quality social sciences research and offers post-graduate education related to the specific domains of Wageningen University. The Graduate School promotes disciplinary, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research focused on complex problems in the domains of (1) food and food production, (2) lifestyles, health and livelihood, and (3) environment and natural resources.
Core activities are the research programmes of the Mansholt fellows and their publications, the training of PhD students, and the completion of high quality PhD theses. These activities not only contribute to scientific progress, but also to understanding and addressing major challenges in society in the three domains, as well as to policy advice.
Mansholt Graduate School is named after Sicco Mansholt (1908-1995), who was Minister of Agriculture in The Netherlands from 1945 until 1958. From 1958 until 1972 he was Commissioner of Agriculture and Vice-President of the European Commission.
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