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An article that had been published recently is: “Exploring the ‘New Rural Paradigm’ in Europe: Eco-economic strategies as a counterforce to the global competitiveness agenda”. This article describes strategies in rural regional development. For many regions an obvious choice is to compete with other regions for global mobile capital and labour. On the other hand, and as a counterforce to these global logics, new strategies, which are more place-based, are being developed, such as the construction of identities or images around new agricultural goods and services. The full article has been published in the journal European Urban and Regional Studies.
Kulturhusen en Dorpshuizen in Gezonde kernen in Twente: Opdracht voor een master thesis student (of meerdere theses)
Vraag: De Overijsselse Vereniging van Kleine Kernen (OVKK) in samenwerking met de gemeente Wierden wil de bijdrage van ‘Kulturhusen’ en Dorpshuizen aan de leefbaarheid en vitaliteit van dorpskernen in kaart brengen en versterken. Ook wil men verschillen in beeld brengen tussen Kulturhusen en Dorpshuizen en ideeën verzamelen die plaats kunnen vinden in die buurthuizen, waardoor hun exploitatie beter wordt.
Het behouden en versterken van sociale vitaliteit van het platteland is een van de belangrijke speerpunten die wordt genoemd in de Twentse Kracht! Groene Metropool Twente, een visie op gebiedsontwikkeling 2014-2020. De visie geeft aan dat naast innovatie op technisch gebied, ook behoefte aan sociale innovatie ter versterking van de sociale vitaliteit.
Betrokken stakeholders zijn: de buurt- en dorpshuizen, bewoners, Landschap Overijssel, Overijsselse Vereniging voor Continue reading
“Our culture is being eroded”: 2nd report from the field
Florian Neubauer is working on an M.Sc. Thesis with RSO titled `Understanding changes in land tenure and livelihoods among the pastoral Maasai in southern Kenya´. Here he shares some reflections from his field work. All quotations are either taken from interviews or from informal conversations. Florian’s first post can be found here.
Part 2: Maasai culture
Still what it is all about? – Maasai cattle
`We don’t have something like that here anymore´
He slants his head, looks at me and smiles. I don’t know what he is thinking. Is he reminiscing? Does he feel sorry to disappoint me? Or, is he amused by the naivety of the mzungu, the `white´? `We don´t have something like that here anymore´, he says after some time. I am sitting in the homestead of an old Maasai man, having a cup of tea with him. I am somewhere in the remote area of Kajiado County in southern Kenya at the very Continue reading
We don’t need big corporations to feed the world – small farmers supply Dar es Salaam with food
By Marc Wegerif. PhD Candidate, Rural Sociology Group Wageningen University, carrying out research on food provisioning in Dar es Salaam.
I am happy to share a recently published paper: “Exploring Sustainable Urban Food Provisioning: The Case of Eggs in Dar es Salaam” Sustainability 2014, 6(6), 3747-3779; doi:10.3390/su6063747.
The paper examines food provisioning in Dar es Salaam through a focus on the egg trade and finds that there are existing, non-corporate, patterns of food provisioning that can sustainably meet the needs of eaters in this city of over 4million people. Below I explain why this is important.
Farm Experience Internship 2014
At weblog for more information on FEI and learn how the participate.
Summer is coming and so it’s time to go outside! Join us!
After a big success previous year, we are organising again the FEI, Farm Experience Internship, an amazing 3ECTS summer course from the Wageningen University which intends to bring together theoretical knowledge from (non-)students with practical skills and knowledge from farmers. Are you interested in growing your own food, discovering local knowledge and practices on organic farms in the Netherlands? Do you want to learn about permaculture, agroecology, food sovereignty and sustainable food systems? Or would you like to interact and discuss with farmers to find creative, innovative ways of farming? Join the FEI from 5-27 August 2014! Send a mail to FarmExperienceInternship@gmail.com
Are you having the idea that milk comes from a factory and tomatoes grow underground? No worries, everyone can join – because you will be prepared during the first week, full of lectures, workshops, debates and excursions!
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Rural Sociology Wageningen University 