Een korte documentaire door Karen Kuiper en Huib Schoonhoven met Jan Douwe van der Ploeg over mestbeleid en contestatie in de Nederlandse landbouw.
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RETHINK Final conference in Brussels December 2, 2015
On behalf of the Rural Sociology I’m having a seat in the Advisory Board of the RETHINK: 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 RETHINK Final conference will take place in Brussels, December 2, 2015. It will be an interesting event with a final reflection by:
- Rob Peters, Head Unit ‘Research & Innovation’ of DG Agri;
- Christiane Canenbley, Unit ‘Agricultural Policy Analysis and
Perspectives’ of DG Agri - Egizio Valceschini, Director of Research at L’Institut National de la
Recherche Agronomique (INRA), representating the RURAGRI ERA network - A RURAGRI country representative
You can download the program here and register yourself at the RETHINK website.
For more information you can contact the RETHINK scientific coordinator Dr. Karlheinz Knickel: knickel@em.uni-frankfurt.de
Farm Experience Internship 2015
By Lucie Sovová and Elske Hageraats (FEI coordinators ‘Stichting Boerengroep’).
Farm Experience Internship 2015
The Farm Experience Internship (FEI) is a 3ECTS summer course on agroecology that offers the students to get hands on experience from organic and bio-dynamic farms in the Netherlands. This year it took place from 20th of July till 14th of August. The main organizer of the course was Stichting Boerengroep with the academic support of the Rural Sociology Group. Continue reading
Open for applications: graduate workshop in Kyoto, Japan in May 2016
From May 24 to May 27 Kyoto University, represented by the Graduate School of Economics and the Graduate School of Agriculture, together with the Rural Sociology Group of Wageningen University, organize a Second Graduate Workshop. The workshop is intended for graduate students (both master and PhD) and takes place within the context of a collaboration between both institutes. The objective of the workshop is to become acquainted and discuss ongoing social sciences research within Kyoto University and Wageningen University, with an emphasis on the political economy and the sociology of agriculture and food.
Students who are interested can request an application form or more info at: joost.jongerden@wur.nl
Participants needed for online survey about sustainable urban and peri-urban food provision!
SUPURBFOOD is an international research project carried out by a consortium of ten research and ten SME (small and medium-sized enterprises) partners, in which novel solutions to urban and peri-urban food provision have been examined in three thematic areas. These thematic areas are: (i) nutrient, water and waste cycles, (ii) short food supply chains, and (iii) multi-functional land use. While positive developments are found in all of these, additional steps are needed to make full use of the potential of these innovations. Hence, the project team formulated a set of recommendations and would like to ask relevant stakeholders (e.g. policymakers, entrepreneurs, civil society organisations) for their opinion about their effectiveness. For that purpose an online survey has been launched, which takes 10-15 minutes to complete. If you considers yourself to be a relevant stakeholder, you are kindly requested to complete the online questionnaire, which is available in seven languages: English, Dutch, German, Italian, Latvian, French and Galician.
Rural Sociology Wageningen University 