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Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society

‘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 [...]

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Future vegetables

Mission: Vegetable Garden – Part 1: Planting

First of all, meet Johnston: Johnston is the gardener of the compound to where I just moved in. When I arrived, I saw that he had planted some tomatoes in the front garden. We talked and he demonstrated an obvious passion for gardening, and was sad that the rain had spoiled his tomatoes. I asked [...]

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How food shapes our cities

Watch the Ted talk of Carolyn Steel, one of our bloggers.

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