Watch the video recorded during the 2014 Food Otherwise conference in Wageningen University, Netherlands. Interviews with activist Vandana Shiva, prof. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and coordinator Europe for Via Campesina Hanny van Geel. See voedselanders.nl for more information on the conference.
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Farming Experience Internship 2014
Based on last year’s success a Farming Experience Internship is organized again for 2014, August 5-27. See the Facebook Farm Experience Internship for more information or contact farmexperienceinternship@gmail.com.
The Rural Sociology Group and Farming Systems Ecology Group of Wageningen University support the FEI. Wageningen University Students can obtain 3 ects they, in addtion to the FEI, hand in personal evaluation and reflection report.
Voedsel op de kaart
In de laatste onderwijsperiode heb ik een groepje studenten geadviseerd die een ‘ecomap’ van Wageningen hebben gemaakt. Op deze online kaart is te vinden waar je in Wageningen ecologisch verantwoorde producten kunt kopen. Ecologisch verantwoord is door de studenten breed geïnterpreteerd; het gaat om lokaal en biologisch, maar ook om fair-trade en tweedehands, en om services met een ‘sociale plus’, zoals zorgboerderijen (en zo zijn er nog een paar waardes).
Het was behoorlijk lastig om te bepalen welke winkels, boerderijen en andere plekken op de kaart moesten komen. De groep heeft een aantal criteria opgesteld (bijvoorbeeld: lokaal voedsel) en moest vervolgens definiëren wanneer een product of service aan die criteria voldoet (wanneer is voedsel ‘lokaal’?). Daarna moest bekeken worden wanneer een winkel wordt opgenomen als verkooppunt (is één lokaal product voldoende of moeten dat er meerdere zijn?). Geen makkelijke opgave dus, maar de groep is er uiteindelijk goed in geslaagd dit soort…
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Declarations by The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC)
The International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) is an autonomous and self-organised global platform of small-scale food producers and rural workers organizations and grass root/community based social movements to advance the Food Sovereignty agenda at the global and regional level.
More than 800 organizations and 300 millions of small-scale food producers self organize themselves through the IPC, sharing the Food Sovereignty principles as outlined in the Nyeleni 2007 Declaration + 6 pillars of the synthesis report IPC facilitates dialogue and debate among actors from civil society, governments and others actors the field of Food Security and Nutrition, creating a space of discussion autonomous from political parties, institutions, governments and private sector.
The IPC recently published several declarations on food sovereignty for Europe, Asia and Africa. See the IPC weblog for more information or Facebook page IPC for Food Sovereignty
Peasants and Politics – free access special issue of the Journal of Pesants Studies
The Journal of Peasant Studies is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2013-14. Volume 1 of JPS was published in October 1973 to September 1974. Part of our series of initiatives to commemorate the anniversary of JPS is the publication of virtual special issues, starting with the 40 Classics in Peasant Studies.
The second in the series is JPS 40: Peasants & Politics. This collection highlights some of the key articles that have been published in the journal over the past four decades on peasant politics.
The articles share one common feature: they all remain extremely relevant, especially in the context of today’s massive, worldwide revival of critical agrarian studies. We hope academics will find the virtual special issue useful in their courses. We hope students of contemporary critical agrarian studies and critical environmental studies, among others, will find it useful in building their theoretical foundations. We hope policy practitioners will find it relevant in informing policy debates. We hope agrarian, food and environmental activists will find it relevant in their political struggles.
Rural Sociology Wageningen University 