Voor de Voedsel Anders Conferentie op 12 en 13 februari 2016 zoekt de organisatie nog enthousiaste vrijwilligers die willen helpen met praktische en inhoudelijke werkzaamheden tijdens de conferentie. Wil jij ook onderdeel zijn van deze beweging? Meld je aan als vrijwilliger!
Last spring I attended the summer school of the STEPS centre. Together with Fredric Bauer, a fellow phd at the summer school, I wrote a blog reflecting on two hectic but inspiring weeks.
For those early stage researchers and PhD’s that are interested in attending the STEPS Summer School of 2016: The application deadline is the 27th of January 2016!
This post was co-authored by Fredric Bauer (Lund University) and Aniek Hebinck (Wageningen University).
The Summer School run by the STEPS Centrehas become one of the centre’s annual highlights by bringing together young researchers to explore the intricate world of pathways to sustainability. Co-owned by the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) and the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, the centre combines topics of development and innovation in its research and teaching.
During two very intensive weeks in Spring, we and 40 other PhD students and young researchers coming from 31 countries spent our time studying, thinking, discussing, and debating ‘pathways to sustainability’. Central to these debates were the politics and framings of sustainable transitions in global settings, e.g. cases discussed were agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa, water in India, and renewable energy in Europe. Between lectures given by distinguished academics such as Ian Scoones, Andy…
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A recent post on the local case-studies in TRANSMANGO. A diverse selection of 18 case-studies in Europe (and Tanzania) represent the Fragmented Foodscape that will improve our understanding of transition pathways to a sustainable food system.
Through the project TRANSMANGO we hope to contribute to a better understanding of sustainable transition pathways to changing food systems. Especially in WP6 we put focus on the diverse food practices performed on the local level all over Europe and their contribution to food and nutrition security[1]. The European ‘fragmented foodscape’[2] is constituted by a range of various and often contrasting social practices that co-exist and interact with another. Hence we have selected a diverse range of food practices all over Europe in order to explore whether and if so how they enhance food security. These practices range from urban food (policy) initiatives in the UK to food assistance in Italy.
The 18 diverse case-studies that have been selected for WP6 illustrate the European[3] heterogeneity in Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) practices and transition pathways. The selection covers predominantly ‘counter movements’andmore radical FNS transition…
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Are you a student of International Development studies, Organic Agriculture, Food Technology, or Development and Rural Innovation and are you interested in topics varying from food provisioning, urban-rural linkages to sustainable place-shaping? Then the Rural Sociology Group is the perfect place to look for thesis supervision!
Recently the article on FoodLinks that you can read below was published on the EU websites Horizon2020 and Research & Innovation. FoodLinks is one of the EU-projects the Rural Sociology Group worked on between 2011 and 2013. If you want to know more about the initial project read here.
Can too many cooks spoil the broth? Not if they find the right way to work together. An EU-funded project explored new methods for researchers, policy-makers and civil society groups to collaborate to make food sustainable – for both people and the planet.’ Continue reading
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