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Stageplek – monitoren van interactieve groenontwerpbijeenkomsten in Zuid-Holland

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De provincie Zuid-Holland zoekt een stagiair voor het monitoren van groenontwerpbijeenkomsten. Hieronder meer informatie van de contactpersoon Kees Verdouw.

De provincie Zuid-Holland werkt in het project Mijn groen – Ons groen (zie www.mijngroenonsgroen.nl) aan een nieuwe manier van groenontwikkeling. Het project is onderdeel van het INTERREG-project GIFT-T! (www.gift-t.eu) en wordt dus mede door Europa betaald. Wat is er nieuw aan de aanpak van het project? Allereerst het uitgangspunt, namelijk dat we voor de ontwikkeling van natuur, groen en landschap echt willen starten bij de wensen van de gebruiker. Dat is bijv. een recreant, maar ook een boer, een grote multinational of een school. Al deze partijen maken gebruik van de natuur en welke mogelijkheden zien zij om dat te verbeteren? Die vraag hebben we beantwoord via droombijeenkomsten met deze gebruikers. Nu is de volgende stap om samen met de gebruikers wensen te vertalen in een samenhangend groen netwerk. Het streven is om per stukje groen zoveel mogelijk wensen (ecosysteemdiensten) van gebruikers te kunnen honoreren. Continue reading →

The Farm Experience Internship (FEI) : experiences from Brazil

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Part of a joint initiative the Farming Systems Ecology group  of Wageningen University offers a new course the Farm Experience Internship (FEI). This course is presented and discussed in Grassroots Science event next July 4. See the earlier blog for more info. The course is inspired by a similar course in Brazil. Below Heitor Texeira, student from Federal University of Vicosa and currently intern at Stichting Otherwise and ILEA, tells about the Brazilian experiences and about course starting for the first time summer, from 11th to 30th of August. See for more information on the FEI course also the site of the Boerengroep.

By Heitor Texeira

The Estágio Interdisciplinar de Vivência

In Brazil family farmers and traditional communities play a very important role concerning food production and conservation of natural resources. They are responsible for the production of approximately 70% of the food consumed in the country and in many cases manage their production systems in a more sustainable way, seeking for the integration between nature and agriculture. Although their great contribution for society, the knowledge developed and disseminated in educational institutes of superior level is often disconnected from the reality and needs of family farmers. On the one hand their traditional knowledge is underestimated regarding research and extension at the University. Continue reading →

Grassroots Science: Do the NL have an agro-ecology movement?

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Stichting Otherwise organizes another Grassroots Science event. The new course The Farm Experience Internship (FEI) will be presented and the significance it can have for formal education and the agroecology network in the Netherlands. See http://www.st-otherwise.org/thu-4-july-grassroots-science-agroecology-in-the-netherlands/ for more info or the site of the Boerengroep for more info on the FEI course.

GS Agroecology

Seminar on Voluntary Simplicity in Food Choices

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voluntary seminarVoluntary Simplicity in Food Choices – A seminar to navigate through theory and practices of responsible food consumption

Voluntary simplicity is a movement that promises better lives on a more healthy planet. But how does this work in our every day food practices? WASS proposes an afternoon on the theories and practices of voluntary simplicity and critical food consumption: How can voluntary simplicity be understood in a food context? What would it look like? Could it be expressed in movements of artisan local production, organic farming, alternative food networks, etc.? And how?

This seminar features both leading thinkers (Philip Cafaro, Colorado State University; Jeanine Schreurs, Maastricht University) and local practitioners (De Nieuwe Ronde, Veld & Beek, Project EAT). Next to a figurative taste of theories and practices, it offers participants a literal taste of actual locally produced simple foods in order to induce a lively and inspired discussion.

Date: September 10th, 2013
Time: 13:30 – 18:30
Place: Leeuwenborch building, Wageningen

For more information and how to subscribe, contact Simon d’Amico (simona.damico[at]wur.nl).

Food at the battefields

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This 6th and last lecturing period of the year, I run a capita selecta course on Food Culture with some of the students from the regular course in February in which we read and discuss classics in food culture together. Like two years ago, there is a small but dedicated group of students eager to read entire books rather than the usual scientific papers. We just finished ‘Paradox of the Plenty’ by Harvey Levenstein, a very dense but easy and often funny to read social history of eating in the U.S. spanning from 1920s to about the 1990s. One of the stories to which we awed with amazement is about the abundance, diversity and quality of the food supply and diet of American soldiers during World War II. Continue reading →