While being a Slow Food member here in Pisa I do appreciate a good piece of fast food every now and then, especially after a long night out or when there is no time to sit down and eat a whole meal. That is also why I was very happy to read the following news [...]
Turning sixty five and not slowing down
The Rural Sociology group in Wageningen is celebrating its 65th anniversary. To celebrate, Femke Hoekstra and myself interviewed some of the awesome people that have been part of the history of the group. You can check out their stories here: http://happysixtyfive.wordpress.com/ Visit our blog and stay tuned because there will be more [...]
New book: Sustainable Food Planning: Evolving Theory and Practice
Half the world’s population is now urbanised and cities are assuming a larger role in debates about the security and sustainability of the global food system. Hence, planning for sustainable food production and consumption is becoming an increasingly important issue for planners, policymakers, designers, farmers, suppliers, activists, business and scientists alike. The rapid growth of [...]
The ‘Greek Potato Revolution’: flash in the pan or long-term supply chain reconfiguration?
The BBC has reported a fascinating story of short food supply chains booming in Greece’s economic depression. Called the ‘Potato Revolution’, farmers and consumers are organising to cut out the middleman and slash prices of basic foodstuffs, starting with potatoes and moving on to rice, flour and olive oil. The BBC story can be read [...]
Is urban agriculture able to surpass the hype stage in the Netherlands?
Yesterday 8 March 2012, the first ‘Day on urban agriculture’ took place in Almere. The program included contributions from urban agriculture entrepreneurs, policy, housing corporations, education, civil society, to name a few. All in all, the contributors showed that urban agriculture in the Netherlands is moving to the next level and beyond the hype. Special guest was Wayne Roberts from Toronto, [...]
Philanthropic Assistance To Smallholder Farmers: Conditional? Love?
Bill Gates recently announced a commitment of $200m for assisting smallholder farmers in developing countries to increase their agricultural productivity. A much needed and welcome financial investment to be sure. But what conditions are attached? And what constitutes ‘sustainable agriculture’ according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation? A look at the website suggests a [...]
Phd. Course: Public Foodscapes – a role for local and sustainable Food Strategies ?
Join the Phd. Course: Public Foodscapes – A Role for Local and Sustainable Food Strategies. Credits: 5 ECTS Duration: 4 days Time: 8-11 May 2012 Location: Aalborg University, Ballerup Organisers: Prof. Bent Egberg Mikkelsen and Assoc. Prof. Michael Søgaard Jørgensen Deadline for registration: 1 March 2012 Local and sustainable food strategies are spreading [...]
Alternative Lit Review (from an Alternative Person)
(Surely you wouldn’t expect something conventional from me.) *** Lit Review Scholars agree on one point: Food crisis. *** Food systems Unjust, unsustainable; Something’s wrong. *** One billion Underfed, undernourished; There’s enough. *** One billion Badly fed, badly nourished, Unhealthy. *** The verdict: It’s a broken food system … Can be fixed? *** Who’s in [...]
Foodlinks meeting in Tirrenia, Italy
Last week Foodlinks held its third face-to-face project meeting in Tirrenia on the west coast of Italy. This was quite an important meeting since the project is almost half over and we have struggled quite a bit with finding a clear focus for the activities in the communities of practice. The main aim of this meeting [...]
Blogging in accordance with social capital.
Recently I came across an interesting news item from Russian Internet sources where social capital concept has been applied to blogging. Popular, among Russian Internet users, blog hosting LiveJournal (“Живой журнал, ЖЖ”) started a new system of calculating the popularity rankings of its blogs and community diaries for all of its users, based on social [...]
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