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, [...]
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Working Groups on ‘Civic Food Networks’ at conferences ‘Agriculture in an Urbanizing Society’, IFSA 2012 and IRSA 2012
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. [...]
‘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 [...]
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, [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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!
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