As follow-up of the successful Working Group on “New Forms of Consumer Engagement in Food Networks: Diversity, Mechanisms & Dynamics” that was held at the ESRS Conference in Chania, Crete last August 2011 (see previous entry on this blog) we have organized Working Groups on similar topics at different scientific events in the coming year. [...]
Archive | December, 2011
‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’ Conference – new deadline for submission of abstracts
As mentioned in previous posts on the Rural Sociology weblog, an international conference entitled ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’ will be held from 1 to 4 April 2012 in Wageningen. A whole range of different topics and research findings will be presented and discussed in 20 different working groups, including a variety of food themes such as [...]
Good technology or bad technology?
I’ve been intrigued for some time by the so many ways that ‘sustainability’ gets conflated. It doesn’t necessarily surprise me that most people don’t find it easy to engage with such a lofty idea, and usually I just agree with whatever people tell me sustainability ‘is’, smile, have another drink, and invite my interlocutor to [...]
Visiting Annemiek Canjels at the Province of Limburg for a Foodlinks pairing experiment
In December 2011, Femke Hoekstra, PhD student and Foodlinks research assistant at Wageningen University was paired with Annemiek Canjels, senior advisor on EU public affairs with the Province of Limburg. Pairing is one of the knowledge brokerage tools identified in Foodlinks as being potentially helpful in linking researchers and policymakers. The basic idea of pairing [...]
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Toni Massanés: Molt bo, Leah!...
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Dorte Ruge: Hello everybody !
There are still seats availab...
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Leah Ashe: Thanks, Jess. First: Since I know you enjoy a good...
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Henk Renting: Thanks, Jessica and also Maria for your additional...
