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  • Link is gedeeld Mini-trendtours ‘PUUR Ontdekken’ voor ondernemers met passie voor authentiek

    Zoekt u inspiratie voor nieuwe voedingsconcepten met karakter en wilt u zich één dag laten verrassen door authentieke verhalen en belevenissen? Ga dan met 20 collega-ondernemers mee op ontdekkingstocht naar eerlijk en echt eten in Nederland. Elke maand organiseert Syntens een mini...

    Door Erik Koldewey op 03-12-2010 10:19

  • Link is gedeeld Can farmers inform policy about multifunctional agriculture?

    By Leonardo van den Berg (MSc. student International Development Studies, Wageningen University ) & Klarien Klingen (graduate International Land and Water Management , Wageningen University). On the 8th of October we participated in the mini-conference about multifunctional agriculture ...

    Door Dirk Roep op 10-27-2009 11:21

  • Link is gedeeld Corn, soybean and hogs; the way we do things here

    Iowa agriculture is dominated by corn, soybean, hog and ethanol production. A common feature among this list is that all of these are commodities; bulk products ready for further industrial processing. In a way, Iowa agriculture represents a single ‘farming style’ (Van der Ploeg et al), a...

    Door Dirk Roep op 08-06-2009 14:59

  • Link is gedeeld Yet another crisis in the hog industry

    During my time in Ames I met quite a few current or previous students of the Graduate Program in Sustainable Agriculture (GPSA) in which both Jan and Cornelia Flora teach. The GPSA is a truly interdisciplinary program in which students with diverse (and often international) backgrounds meet....

    Door Dirk Roep op 08-05-2009 16:47

  • Link is gedeeld Feeding the city or nourishing the city?

    More than half of the world’s population is living in cities. It are especially the larger cities that are increasing in size and many of these ever expanding cities are located in regions that are most suitable for food production. The tension between a growing urban population and a declin...

    Door Dirk Roep op 07-19-2009 00:02

  • Link is gedeeld Knee-high by the 4th of July

    Independence Day, the 4th of July is of course an important day in the US. And it therefore serves as a marker in time, if the corn is knee-high by the fourth of July, you can be happy. Well, here in Ames, one can be satisfied. The corn is more like shoulder-high already. Maybe this is caus...

    Door Dirk Roep op 07-09-2009 20:56

  • Link is gedeeld Fighting from inside capitalism

    Last week I joined Jan Flora to a meeting in Des Moines called the “Midwest Meat Roundtable”. It was organized by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility ( ICCR ). ICCR is a nationwide consortium of faith based intentional investors, such as the Adrian Dominican Sisters from Mich...

    Door Dirk Roep op 07-08-2009 18:12

  • Link is gedeeld Food democracy

    Nothing but corn in Iowa. So I did some serious weeding and hoeing of corn this weekend……..Of white corn. Not the regular uneatable corn which goes into feed fodder, energy production or corn sweetener. These immense fields are round-up ready anyway. The corn grown in the community garden ...

    Door Dirk Roep op 06-30-2009 18:34

  • Link is gedeeld Times of change?

    At the Changing Lands Changing Hands conference in Denver, Jess Gilbert reminded us in his opening speech of the agricultural policies that were put in place with the New Deal policy in the depression of the thirties. Henry J. Wallace was the driving force behind a set of progressive and inn...

    Door Dirk Roep op 06-11-2009 17:52

  • Link is gedeeld The role of the state in the food system

    Last Friday, I presented ideas and examples of the state as emerging actor in sustainable food consumption to the sociology department of Iowa State University. In Europe, there are more and more examples of different levels of government, – state, region or city governments – taking in...

    Door Dirk Roep op 06-08-2009 04:57

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