Food Chains – viewing and debating fair food issues, April 23 19.00 C222 Forum
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Appeal to Ahold to join the Fair Food Programme
In a campaign (Facebook page) with different activities such as an picket-line at the venue of the annual shareholders meeting Wednesday April 15 (12.00-14.30) an appeal is made to Ahold to join the Fair Food Program just like McDonalds, Burger King and worlds largest retailer Wallmart already did. An open letter to Ahold has been published with an online petition. The letter is signed by a.o. FNV, Fairwork and our Rural Sociology Group. If you have viewed the video above, you can visit the website of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), initiators of the Fair Food Program, learn about the Fair Food Program, what they ask and sign the petition if you agree Ahold should join the program now.
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers’ (CIW) Fair Food Program is a unique partnership among farmers, farmworkers, and retail food companies that ensures humane wages and working conditions for the workers who pick fruits and vegetables on participating farms. It harnesses the power of consumer demand to give farmworkers a voice in the decisions that affect their lives, and to eliminate the longstanding abuses that have plagued agriculture for generations.
Food Chains is a documentary on the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and the Fair Food Program. Next Thursday April 23, 19.00 (Forum building, room C222), Food Chains will be shown followed by a panel discussion with a member of the CIW. This event is co-organised by the Boerengroep, Otherwise, RUW and the Rural Sociology Group
RETHINK – Farmers from Salzburg (Austria) explain diversification as a strategy to strengthen resilience
RETHINK is a transdisciplinary research project supported by the European Commission and funding bodies in 14 countries under the umbrella of FP7 and the RURAGRI ERA-NET. The Rural Sociology Group has a seat in the RETHINK Advisory Board.
Researchers from BOKU have made three short films (also with English undertitles) in which farmers explain their family farm strategie in terms of strengthening their resilience.
1. Resilience needs diversity – Diversity needs balance
Five farmers form Salzburg (Austria) farmers talk about the advantages of having different income sources (both on- and off farm) to strengthen their resilience. But they also point out the challenges related to managing diversity. They talk about what it takes to successfully manage diversity, especially to ensure that the workload for the various family members is not too high and that quality of life does not suffer.
Family Farming Futures – PhD-thesis by Henk Oostindie
March 20, 2015 at 1.30 pm Henk Oostindie will publicly defend his PhD-thesis ‘Familiy Farming Futures. Agrarian pathways to multifunctionality: flows of resistance, redesign and resilience‘ in the Auditorium of Wageningen University. The defence ceremony will be streamed live by WURTV but can be viewed later as well. A hard copy of the thesis can be ordered by sending an email to Henk.Oostindie@wur.nl or a pdf can be downloaded from Wageningen Library (embargo untill March 20).
The PhD-thesis compiles different national and European research projects on multifunctionality and multifunctional agriculture Henk Oostindie was involved since 1999. He has thus gained both a broad and profound knowledge of multifunctionality as a concept and as practice. He is a highly esteemed colleague at our Rural Sociology group.
Bodem Anders! conferentie 19 & 20 maart 2015
Gezonde bodems zijn de basis van gezond, duurzaam voedsel. Op donderdag 19 en Vrijdag 20 maart organiseren een groot aantal organisaties samen de Bodem Anders! conferentie in Den Bosch. Doel van de conferentie is een dialoog om samen te werken aan oplossingen voor duurzaam bodembeheer. Met o.a. John Liu (Green Gold) als key-note spreker. En met workshops, films, lezingen en excursies over: bodemvruchtbaarheid; jonge boeren; bodem en gezondheid; boerenkennis en wetenschap; kringlooplandbouw; besluitvorming en beleid; toegang tot grond; stadslandbouw.
Meewerkende organisaties: ZLTO, Hivos, Greenpeace, Milieudefensie, Waterschap AA en Maas, Natuur en Milieu, Wervel, Wageningen soil network, Toekomstboeren, Stichting Grondbeheer, Stuugroep landbouw innovatie Brabant, Orgapower, van Iersel, CLM, Brabantse Milieufederatie, OtherWise, Boerenverstand, ILEIA, Boerenverstand, Orgapower, NIOO, The Hunger Project, Estafette, Oxfam Novib, Nederlands Melkveehouders vakbond, Demeter, future farmers movement, bewust bodem gebruik, CSE, Stichting Ecologische Landbouw Ghana, Van Iersel, Aarde Boer Consument, NMI, Down2Earth.
Voor meer informatie en registratie: http://www.voedselanders.nl/
Rural Sociology Wageningen University 