Sustainability impact is one of the five themes of the course ‘Origin Food: a Market for Identity’ (see my earlier post for more info). Surfing on internet, looking for some empirical material on the importance of local food for local economies, we came across the work of Ken Meter...
Door Dirk Roep op 03-25-2010 12:48
The FOODSHED ALLIANCE is a grassroots, non-profit devoted to promoting locally-grown food and farming. We work with farmers, community members, and agricultural leaders to develop projects that foster the growth of a sustainable local food system. We focus on raising public awareness about the va...
Door Dirk Roep op 03-24-2010 14:06
Katherine Newman gives voice to 57 million Americans sandwiched between the middle class and the poor. In her new book, The , Princeton sociologist Katherine Newman gives voice to 57 million Americans sandwiched between the middle class and the poor. Newman argues that the stories of these famili...
Door Dirk Roep op 01-11-2010 15:52
Van maart 2009 tot en met december 2010 wordt de Foodprint manifestatie gehouden op diverse locaties in de stad Den Haag. Foodprint is een twee jaar durend programma over de invloed van voedsel op de cultuur, de inrichting en het functioneren van steden en van Den Haag in het bijzonder...
Door Dirk Roep op 06-11-2009 16:04
By exploring this website, you can learn about the lives of five families who work to provide the food we all depend on. The farming families who are profiled in this project --- they live in Massachusetts, North Carolina, Iowa, Arizona, and California --- share their experiences in the audio st...
Door Dirk Roep op 05-26-2009 14:51
™ is the initiative to encourage Americans to learn from history, become more self-reliant, save a significant amount of money, and eat healthier, all as a result of planting their own urban garden! The goal of ™ is to encourage and catalogue the creation of 100,000 urban gardens by 2020. W...
Door Dirk Roep op 03-18-2009 10:48
A site with nice short documentaries on rural and regional development in Minnesota made by SWI foundation
Door Dirk Roep op 03-09-2009 11:05
A.s. donderdag (15 janauri) een documentaire over stadslandbouw in Detroit bij LLink, Nederland 2.
Door Dirk Roep op 01-13-2009 16:46
Food Policy Councils (FPCs) bring together stakeholders from diverse food-related sectors to examine how the food system is operating and to develop recommendations on how to improve it. FPCs may take many forms, but are typically either commissioned by state or local government, or predominately...
Door Dirk Roep op 11-13-2008 14:30
Food Policy Councils convene citizens and government officials for the purpose of providing a comprehensive examination of a state or local food system. This unique, non-partisan form of civic engagement brings together a diverse array of food system stakeholders to develop food and agriculture p...
Door Dirk Roep op 11-13-2008 14:24