From 1 – 4 April 2012 a conference entitled ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society: International Conference on Multifunctional Agriculture and Urban-Rural Relations‘ will take place in Wageningen. Some time ago a call for abstracts was launched. This is to inform or remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 20 December 2011. Abstracts can be submitted by email to the coordinating convenor of a working group (call for abstracts for all WGs can be accessed through this link). The following working groups have been approved by the Scientific Programme Committee:
- WG1 Green care
- WG2 Agri tourism: Critcal Perspectives on Dilemmas and Opportunities
- WG3 Exploring ‘civic food networks’ and their role in enabling sustainable urban food systems
- WG4 Rural education
- WG5 Environmental services
- WG6 Economic impact at the farm level
- WG7 Business models; farm enterprise development models
- WG8 Entrepreneurial skills and competences: challenges and opportunities
- WG9 Learning for innovation – new challenges in an urbanizing world
- WG10 Regional branding; the socio-economic impact at the regional level
- WG11 Urban, peri-urban and regional planning
- WG12 Land-use transformations
- WG13 What are the challenges of future urban agriculture?
- WG14 Public food procurement
- WG15 Consumers, multifunctional agriculture and urban dynamics
- WG16 Multifunctionality, rural policy and governance
- WG17 Social exclusion and poverty in rural areas
- WG18 Migration and mobility
- WG19 Transition approaches
- WG20 Multifunctional agriculture as a coupled human-natural system