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Visiting scholar Claire Baker – how global transformations affected a small rural community in Australia

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Claire Baker visiting the social care farm ‘t Paradijs: http://www.boerderijparadijs.nl

By Claire Baker, PhD-student from the University of New England in Australia.

Working title of my PhD-project: ‘Experiencing change in a globalising agricultural economy: An Australian ethnographic case study 1945-2015′.

I have been very fortunate to have spent some time with the dynamic Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University as a Visiting Scholar over the last couple of weeks. This has been an intensive period of discussion and reading during which I have further refined the theoretical and methodological framework for my research project. Continue reading →

“We need policy rupture not incremental conservatism”: Toward a #commonfoodpolicy

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The EU-project TRANSMANGO is focussed at sustainable pathways to changing the food system. This project aims to combine and integrate different theoretical approaches to gain insight into Food and Nutrition Security (FNS).
In light of that, TRANSMANGO’s Terry Marsden has written an opinion paper about transitioning from the CAP to a Common Food and Nutrition Policy to start the debate.

Join the debate: 

A Common Food and Nutrition Policy for Europe?
Having been fortunate enough to have attended and participated in several international conferences and working groups over the spring and summer of this year, and had a change to explore and discuss the current ‘state of play’ in what seems to be the increasingly dysfunctional global food system, I have recently begun to seriously reflect on European policy, and the questions of radically changing the current EU CAP into a Common Food and Nutrition Policy. This was mentioned by Damien Canare, from Montpellier at a meeting of the FLEDGE research programme in Waterloo in September this year, and in my preparation and discussions for a presentation on the TRANSMANGO EU project at the Agriculture and Urbanising Society Conference in Rome thereafter.

“Some have perceived this as being something of a naive question, given the overall complexity and political inertia in the glacial process of CAP reform experienced over the past 25 years”

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RETHINK Final conference in Brussels December 2, 2015

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RETHINKOn 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

Stage bij Stichting Demeter – meewerken aan visievorming op vernieuwing in BD landbouw

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DemeterStichting Demeter biedt meerdere stageplekken voor studenten die komend winterseizoen 2015-2016 met boeren willen werken aan een visievorming op kennisontwikkeling en vernieuwing in de Biologisch Dynamische landbouw. Dit tegen de achtergrond van het maatschappelijk debat rond kwesties als: dierwelzijn; het gebruik van antibiotica en antibiotica vrije status; de mannelijke lijn in de veehouderij (wat doen we met stiertjes, bokjes en haantjes) en kalfjes bij de koe. Van ousher heeft de BD zich sterk onderscheiden van de gangbare landbouw in deze kwesties, maar dat zal naar verwachting minder worden. Hoe kan de BD zich dan blijven onderscheiden? Continue reading →