Author Archives: Dirk Roep
Vacancies @Boerengroep: coordinator and intern Farm Experience Internship 2023
Coordinator:
Stichting Boerengroep (Peasant Foundation) is looking for a new coordinator starting April 1, 2023. The coordinator is a spider in the web of students, farmers, interest groups and educational institutions. The coordinator initiate activities, supports initiatives of others, and maintains the Boerengroep network. More information at https://www.boerengroep.nl/vacancy-coordinator/
Intern:
Boerengroep has also a vacancy for an intern, from the end of March until the end of August 2023, to organize the coming 2023 Farm Experience Internship (FEI). The FEI is a four-week summer course on agroecology, see https://www.boerengroep.nl/what-is-the-fei/. As an intern you will help organizing, promoting and shaping the course content and contact farmers and students. More information at https://www.boerengroep.nl/internship-vacancy-coordinate-the-farm-experience-internship/
Caring for people and nature: A summary report on Green Care and place-based sustainability in Finland by Angela Moriggi et al.
Caring for people and nature: A summary report on Green Care and place-based sustainability in Finland by Angela Moriggi, Katriina Soini, Elina Vehmasto, Dirk Roep, Laura Secco and Maria Uosukainen, published by the LUKE – Natural Resources Institute Finland.
Four highlights of the report
Continue readingVacancy: research assistant gender norms in rural innovation in the Netherlands
The Rural Sociology Group and the Business Management and Organisation Group of Wageningen University are looking for a Research Assistant to work on the inventory of gender norms in rural innovation in the Netherlands. This research is part of the joint 3-year EU-funded project GRASSCEILING which started in January 1st, 2023.
The position is for 12 months at 0.4 FTE. The research assistant will be based at the BMO group.
In this exciting research position:
(Re)building historical commons: exploring forest commoning as a transformative practice in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula. PhD-defence by Marta Nieto Romero
Friday December 16, 2022, during a ceremony from 13.30-15.00, Marta Nieto Romero will defend her PhD thesis ‘(Re)building historical commons. Exploring forest commoning as a transformative practice in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula‘ in the auditorium of the Omnia building of Wageningen University and Research. See here for more information and a link to the live broadcast or recording of the ceremony. The PhD-thesis will be available at WUR Library after a successful defence. Below a Summary of the PhD-thesis.
Summary
A commons is a social organizational system where all interested parties participate in the collective use and care for common resources with an emphasis on open access, fair usage and long-term sustainability. While commons have received substantial scientific attention, we know little on how commons’ systems emerge and are sustained over time; in other words, the common-ing practices. The thesis investigated how forest are commoned and become the basis for building thriving communities both in rural and urban areas. It followed a case-study approach with two cases in Galicia (Spain), and one in North region of Portugal (North-western Iberian Peninsula). Methods included interviews, participant observation and a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project where people’s meaningful experiences in forests were collected and shared with the broader community to understand the role of affects in driving participation. The thesis offer understanding on why/how humans engage in caring for their places, and why is this relevant for sustainability transformations.
Rural Sociology Wageningen University 