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Day 1 – Generating ideas, exchanging experiences and comparing perspectives
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| 09.00 – 09.30 |
Welcome and coffee/tea
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| 09.30 – 09.45 |
Food and planning: an introduction to the conference |
Prof. Kevin Morgan (Professor of Governance & Development, Cardiff University, UK) |
| 09.45 – 10.00 |
Including food and agriculture in urban planning: the Almere approach |
Mr. Henk Mulder (director urban planning Almere) |
| 10.00 – 11.00 |
Session 1: Setting the scene
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| 10.00 – 10.30 |
An integrated and territorial perspective on food studies, policy and planning |
Prof. Han Wiskerke (Chair of Rural Sociology – Wageningen University, Netherlands) |
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Feeding the city: practices, challenges and lessons from developing countries |
Mr. Henk de Zeeuw (director of the RUAF Foundation) |
| 11.00 – 11.30 |
Coffee/tea break
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| 11.30 – 13.00 |
Session 2: Theoretical perspectives and academic issues
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| 11.30 – 12.00 |
Reconnecting consumers and producers: dynamics, diversity and potentials of alternative food networks |
Prof. Gianluca Brunori (Professor of Agriculture Economics – Pisa University, Italy) |
| 12.00 – 12.30 |
Urban food and public spaces: planning for security and sustainability |
Dr. Roberta Sonnino (Lecturer in Environmental Planning – Cardiff University, UK) |
| 12.30 – 13.00 |
Food and the city: the links between food, public health and sustainable urban development |
Dr. Martin Caraher (Reader in Food & Health Policies – City University London, UK) |
| 13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch break
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| 14.00 – 15.30 |
Session 3: Food planning practices and policies
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| 14.00 – 14.30 |
Food and agriculture in Europe’s peri-urban regions |
Mrs. Dwarshuis (President of Peri-Urban Regions Platform Europe – PURPLE) |
| 14.30 – 14.50 |
The practice of food planning in New York city |
Dr. Nevin Cohen (Associate Professor in Urban Studies – New School for Liberal Arts, New York) |
| 14.50 – 15.10 |
The practice of food planning in New York state |
Mr. Bob Lewis (senior planner New York State) |
| 15.10 – 15.30 |
Amsterdam’s food strategy (“Proeftuin Amsterdam”) |
Mr. Bart Pijnenburg MSc (Programme manager Proeftuin Amsterdam) |
| 15.30 – 16.00 |
Coffee/tea break
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| 16.00 – 18.00 |
Excursion to City Farm Almere |
Tineke van den Berg (urban farmer) |
| 19.30 – 22.30 |
Diner (Restaurant De Kemphaan – Almere)
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Day 2 – Towards an agenda for sustainable food planning
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| 09.00 – 09.30 |
Welcome and coffee/tea
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| 09.30 – 10.00 |
Including food in planning studies and planning practices: experiences from the USA |
Prof. Jerry Kaufman (Professor Emeritus of Urban and Regional Planning – University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) |
| 10.00 – 10.45 |
Issues, topics, themes for a sustainable food planning agenda (plenary inventory) |
Moderated by Prof. Arnold van der Valk (Chair of Land Use Planning – Wageningen University, NL) |
| 10.45 – 11.15 |
Coffee/tea break
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| 11.15 – 12.45 |
Developing the building blocks for a sustainable food planning agenda (parallel working sessions) |
| 12.45 – 14.00 |
Lunch break
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| 14.00 – 14.45 |
Plenary presentation of and discussion about results of parallel working sessions |
Moderated by Prof. Terry Marsden (Professor of Environmental Planning – Cardiff University, UK) |
| 14.45 – 15.00 |
Sustainable food planning in Europe: concluding reflection and look ahead |
Prof. Kevin Morgan (Professor of Governance & Development, Cardiff University, UK) |
| 15.00 |
Coffee & tea / end of conference
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Province of Noord-Brabant, in the south part of the Netherlands. After a couple of explorative meetings within the chair group of Rural Sociology of Wageningen University, with the Brabantse Milieufederatie (Environmental Federation Brabant) and the Provincie Noord-Brabant (Province of Nood-Brabant) this research has been defined. The research is about the preconditions, possibilities and restrictions for the set up of a Food Policy Council, a particular form of food policy. A FPC is a broad social network or platform which consists of multiple actors which have an interest in well developed food system. A successful example is the Toronto Food Policy, which formed in 1991 in Canada. In this blog I’ll explain the (conceptual) background of the research, as well as the key results and conclusions. Continue reading 
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