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 [...]
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Territorialization of public policies: the case of Brazil
Policy integration is going to be one of the main themes of the upcoming Contemporary Agrifood Studies course promoted by Wageningen School of Social Sciences. With decentralization, the question is not only about how to have horizontal (intersectoral) integration at the national level, but also vertical integration (of governance levels). If you count the benefits [...]
New Conference at Cardiff University
Place to Plate: New Connections in Food Research 2 April 2012 Cardiff University This is a conference by and for Ph.D. and early-career researchers studying food. It is inter-disciplinary and welcomes participation and contributions from diverse perspectives. Early-career researchers are invited to share their interpretations of the themes to challenge us to realise new connections between places, [...]
Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production
From 30th May to 2nd June 2012 the 10th Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (EurSafe) which will be held in Tübingen (Germany). The conference theme is Climate Change and Sustainable Development: Ethical Perspectives on Land Use and Food Production. Climate change is one of the major framing conditions for sustainable [...]
ESRS Highlights
I know we aren’t all lucky enough to be Rural Sociologists, but for those interested in sustainable agriculture, the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) Congress is an event you shouldn’t miss! For the 2011 congress in Chania, Crete, there were 59 presentations inlcuding “food” in the title, 19 involving “agriculture”, and over 20 papers relating to sustainability. [...]
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 [...]
AESOP (Cardiff) Sustainable Food Planning Conference
We are delighted to confirm that Registration is now open for the AESOP (Cardiff) 3rd Sustainable Food Planning Thematic Group Meeting, 28-29 October, 2011, Cardiff. Ticket prices are £180 with a discounted price of £90 for PhD students. (There are 30 PhD tickets available and these will be provided on a first come, first served basis). The [...]
Urban food growing in city re-development
Growing food inside cities as tool or contribution to the re-vitalisation of city quarters, neigborhoods or completely new city developments is currently in high fashion. The examples of successful integration of food growing or even bigger…urban agriculture in city development, however, are still scarce. Designers and artists are at the forefront of imagining what it [...]
ESRS Winter School 2012
Sign up now for a Winter School opportunity with the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS). Here is the website for more information: http://www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be/Default.aspx?alias=www.ilvo.vlaanderen.be/phdwinterschool. Also, you can download the two-page flyer here. WinterSchool2012 chania_finaal. If you’ve been to one of these before, post a comment about it!
Consumer driven food networks, notes from the ESRS conference (6)
Consumer driven food networks are differently named and organised in every country. At the European Society for Rural Sociology (ESRS) conference we saw many types and forms passing by in the working groups within the theme Food networks and supply chains. GAS groups in Italy, AMAPs in France, CSA’s and Community food co-ops in the [...]
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