In an earlier post the Food Film Festival 2012, organized by the Youth Food Movement, was announced. The key note on sustainable food provision by Tim Lang, Professor Food Policy at the City University London, was one of the higlights. A video of his key note has been uploaded by Gerbrand Oudenaarde at Vimeo (see video below), including a short review in Dutch. See also Foodlog for a review in Dutch.
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Food Film Festival 2012, March 16-18
The Food Film Festival 2012, March 16 – 18 in Amsterdam, is an event initaited and organised by the Dutch branch of the Youth Food Movement. It promises an interesting mix of films, workshops, events and even a specific food festival for kids. See the programme at the website or the pdf here. Tim Lang will close the festival with a key note. Take a look at the short video clip blow, an appetizer.
Request for a master student interested in product development and marketing for an organic farm and macro-distillery in Wales
Glynhynod is an organic farm where artisan cheeses are produced, situated in west-Wales and managed by a Dutch family. The firm is highly innovative, applying sustainability guidelines to all their activities and producing food of high quality; several cheeses have received prices on national and international level. The family is now developing the first organic Welsh whisky and an orange liqueur at their newly established organic micro-distillery. They are looking for a master student- preferably one in food technology- who will be able to do an internship and/or thesis inWales. The student should be interested in organic, artisan food production. The student will be during his/her intership:.
- actively involved in developing, testing and trying out new liqueur and spirit recipes using organic ingredients and trial batches of different orange liqueurs using different ingredients and different amounts of ingredients. The student will be required to accurately measure the amounts of ingredients e.g. total weight, of oranges, orange peel amounts of sugar etc; ‘age’ the different liqueurs for 3 different periods e.g. 40, day, 50 day and 60 day infusions. The same method will be used to develop various recipes for spirits e.g. sloe gin and seaweed gin.
- Doing research on marketing aspects to try out the new recipes such as implementing a sensory evaluation in a real life situation where the public will be asked to judge the product. The student will be expected to develop a statistical sensory evaluation method that will determine which liqueur the public prefers and this liqueur will then proceed to bulk production.
His/her master thesis can be focused on of the following themes:
- Marketing and/or gastronomy: how to enhance the supply of local artisan products in this rural area;
- Consumer demands towards locally produced speciality products in west-Wales;
- Develop guidelines for food quality and taste of new alcoholic local products
- Research on food safety of organic artisan products
The student will start around the beginning of April 2012 and stay on the farm for 3-4 months in the beautiful setting of the Teifi Valley in Llandysul near Carmarthen, not far from the sea in west-Wales. The research will be supervised by a staff member of the relevant chair group and co-supervised by Ina Horlings (Rural Sociology Group). If you are interested please apply or ask for more information by sending a mail to (lummina.horlings@wur.nl) before the end of February, 2012.
Conference ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’ – call for abstracts (reminder)
From 1 – 4 April 2012 a conference entitled ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society: International Conference on Multifunctional Agriculture and Urban-Rural Relations‘ will take place in Wageningen. Some time ago a call for abstracts was launched. This is to inform or remind you that the deadline for submitting abstracts is 20 December 2011. Abstracts can be submitted by email to the coordinating convenor of a working group (call for abstracts for all WGs can be accessed through this link). The following working groups have been approved by the Scientific Programme Committee:
- WG1 Green care
- WG2 Agri tourism: Critcal Perspectives on Dilemmas and Opportunities
- WG3 Exploring ‘civic food networks’ and their role in enabling sustainable urban food systems
- WG4 Rural education
- WG5 Environmental services
- WG6 Economic impact at the farm level
- WG7 Business models; farm enterprise development models
- WG8 Entrepreneurial skills and competences: challenges and opportunities
- WG9 Learning for innovation – new challenges in an urbanizing world
- WG10 Regional branding; the socio-economic impact at the regional level
- WG11 Urban, peri-urban and regional planning
- WG12 Land-use transformations
- WG13 What are the challenges of future urban agriculture?
- WG14 Public food procurement
- WG15 Consumers, multifunctional agriculture and urban dynamics
- WG16 Multifunctionality, rural policy and governance
- WG17 Social exclusion and poverty in rural areas
- WG18 Migration and mobility
- WG19 Transition approaches
- WG20 Multifunctional agriculture as a coupled human-natural system
Die Produktive Stadt / Carrot City – Designing for Urban Agriculture
Carrot City is a traveling exhibit that shows how the design of buildings and cities can enable the production of food in the city. It explores the relationships between design and urban food systems as well as the impact that agricultural issues have on the design of urban spaces and buildings. The focus is on how the increasing interest in growing food within the city, supplying food locally, and food security in general, is changing urban design and built form. Carrot City showcases projects in Toronto and other Canadian and American cities, as well as relevant international examples from around the world. The exhibition contains a mix of projects that were recently completed or are currently under way, and visionary, speculative design proposals by both professional designers and students, which illustrate the potential for design that responds to food issues. The exhibit explores these issues at different scales, the city scale, the community scale, housing, rooftops and the products that make all of this possible.
Main curators of Carrot City are Mark Gorgolewski, June Komisar and Joe Nasr of Ryerson University Toronto (Canada). It has traveled to New York City, Montreal and Casablanca. Carroty City is now coming to Europe with exhibitions at the Technical University in Berlin (30 September – 30 October 2011) and the Technical University in Munich (8 – 26 November 2011). For more information about the exhibits and opening ceremonies have a look at the flyer.
Rural Sociology Wageningen University 