Local Public Policies for Food Sovereignty – A recap of the International Seminar in Donostia, Spain

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Former RSO student Jordan Treakle blogs about his experiences at the Public Policies for Food Sovereignty conference held last month.

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By Jordan Treakle

This entry is part of a special series of blog posts about the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS): The Future of the CFS? Collectively reflecting on the directions of UN’s most inclusive body. Read more about this project here. This is not an exclusive project. If you would like to participate, please let us know: foodsecuresolutions@gmail.com

This week we take a diversion and focus on the outcomes of the International Seminar on Local Public Policies for Food Sovereignty that took place in mid-November in the Basque Country.  In this post Jordan Treakle identifies key themes to emerge out of the Seminar. We note that these themes relate to discussions taking place at the CFS and are thus relevant for this special series. Further, while focussing on global policies, there is a need to also address local-level policies.

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Call for abstracts XXVII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress

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In July 2017 (24-27) the XXVII European Society for Rural Sociology Congress will be organised in Krakow, Poland. The topic of this year’s congress is ‘Uneven processes of rural change: on diversity, knowledge and justice’. The conference hosts several working groups, organised along three thematic lines: ‘Space, place and (in)equalities’, ‘Knowledges in processes of rural change’, and ‘agri-food systems and the rural’. For more information, click here. One of the working groups, part of thematic line one (Space, place and (in)equalities), concerns ‘Contested approaches to land-use: sustainability adjustments in social practices in global space’. See the call for abstracts below: Continue reading →

Food forests as an upcoming phenomenon in the Netherlands

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Eva de Groot wrote an essay about food forests and how this phenomenon is gaining momentum in the Dutch agriculture. In this blog she shares some of her findings. Continue reading →

Boekpresentatie ‘Boeren in de Food Valley’

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Voor het boek Boeren in de Food Valley sprak Janneke Blijdorp met vijftien agrariërs uit de Gelderse Vallei. Door schaalvergroting verdween de afgelopen decennia tachtig procent van de boerenbedrijven in dit gebied. De overgebleven boeren zetten in op de internationale voedselindustrie of juist op ambachtelijkheid en de lokale markt. De boeren vertellen in het boek over hun motivatie en toekomstverwachting. Vaak zijn zij al generaties lang met het gebied verbonden. Samen leveren de verhalen een verrassend divers beeld op van veerkrachtige ondernemers. Eric Veltink maakte fotoportretten van de boeren en hun bedrijf. U bent van harte welkom bij de presentatie van Boeren in de Food Valley op donderdagmiddag 24 November van 15.00 – 16.30 uur in De Schaapskooi op het erf van melkveehouder Cor den Hartog, Grote Veenderweg 10, 6741 MC Lunteren. Continue reading →

Farmers’ perception of opportunities for farm development – PhD thesis by Ron Methorst

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methorst-thesis-coverNovember 18, 2016 at 4.00 pm Ron Methorst will defend his PhD-thesis ‘Farmers’ perception of opportunities for farm development‘ in the Auditorium of Wageningen University.

The full thesis will be available after the defence ceremony. See the Abstract below. The ceremony will be live streamed by WURTV but can be viewed later as well.

Ron Methorst is affiliated at the Aeres University of Applied Sciences in Dronten (Aeres Hogeschool Dronten). For more information you can contact r.methorst@aeres.nl 

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