The course ‘Sociology of Food Provisioning and Place-based Development’ starts on Monday 17 March 2014. This course is primarily designed for the Rural Sociology track in the specialisation ‘Sociology of Development’ of the Master International Development Studies. It is, however, open for all students interested in the sociology of food and place, provided they have a basic sociological understanding (at BSc-3 level) of transformation processes in food provisioning, rural and regional development and urban-rural linkages. For more information about the course have a look at the course description in the online study handbook or at the Leaflet Sociology of Food Provisioning and Place-based Development.
Category Archives: Food
SOLINSA project has come to an end – the results
January 31 the EU-funded research project SOLINSA has offically come to an end. A Special Issue of The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension is in preparation. Publication of the SOLINSA issue is foreseen for early 2015. For now the results of the project are available at the SOLINSA website under four subheading:
- The concept of LINSA
- The relation between AKS and LINSA
- Interacting with LINSA
- Policy recommendations
Here public reports of the different workpackages are published, six factsheets, posters and two video clips made for a SOLINSA webinar in which Gianluca Brunori and Talis Tisenkopf explain what LINSA are. These are also available at You Tube SOLINSA Project. To get an overview the SOLINSA home page offers a guided tour through the project and its results. The notion of transition partner captures well the various supporting roles towards LINSA.
Boeren en buren door Ron Methorst – TED CAH Vilentum
Afgelopen dinsdag 4 februari heeft Ron Methorst zijn TED talk Boeren en Buren gehouden op CAH Vilentum waarin hij schets hoe de landbouw zich heeft ontwikkeld in een veranderende (stedelijke) omgeving en de boeren van deze tijd ook weer voor de uitdaging staan om de relatie met hun natuurlijke en sociale omgeving opnieuw vorm en inhoud te geven. Ron onderzoekt dit voor Kampereiland en wil hierop promoveren. Zijn verhaal is terug hieronder te kijken. Meer weten? Vraag het Ron zelf: r.methorst@cahvilentum.nl
Origin Food: a market for identity – course starts March 17, 2014
Monday March 17 we will again start the course Origin Food: a market for identity (RSO-21806). The course part of the specialization Gastronomy of the Master Food Technology, but the course is optional for all students with an interest in food with a Geographical Indication and like to study and discuss the relation between food quality, place or origin and particular practices.
See the post of last year for a course description or contact Dirk Roep (dirk.roep@wur.nl) for more information.
Developing a food strategy: insights from Ede
by Lara Sibbing
Today, food is no longer just a rural issue. With more than half of the world population living in cities, food is a relatively new topic for cities and especially for municipalities to deal with. This is also the case for the municipality of Ede, which is close to Wageningen. This municipality expressed its ambitions for 2025 in a vision document entitled ‘Ede chooses food’. Frankly, the ambition of the municipality of Ede was to ‘go for food’. But what does that actually mean?
The municipality of Ede is one of the largest in size in the Netherlands – funnily enough though, Ede is officially not even a city, as it never got city rights, as opposed to Wageningen – and besides the actual city (or, village) of Ede, the municipality also encompasses a large rural area with several small villages. It is therefore an interesting place: it includes a city with a rural background that is still vivid, and is colored by a splash of knowledge of agricultural research coming in from Wageningen’s agricultural university; and all of that in one municipality. Continue reading
Rural Sociology Wageningen University 