Last week, students of the course ‘Agrarische en rurale ontwikkeling, sociologische perspectieven’  had two days of excursions and could choose from 4 different excursions to see different models of multifunctionality and institutional arrangements in farming (see Birgit’s blog ...
Door Dirk Roep op 06-07-2010 23:26
The Rural Sociology Group offers a possibility to do your master thesis about organic wine production in South Africa . As organic wine production cannot make use of pesticides, wine growers search for other ways to control the weeds in the vineyard, for example by mowing or burning. Mo...
Door Dirk Roep op 03-11-2010 19:48
Source: http://www.postcarbon.org/report/41306-the-food-and-farming-transition-toward More and more scientists are pointing to the fact that the end of the cheap oil era will require us to fundamentally change the prevailing current food and agricultural system; a system that has become...
Door Dirk Roep op 11-19-2009 21:26
 By Peter R.W. Gerritsen, Department of Ecology and Natural Resources, South Coast University Centre, University of Guadalajara, Av. Independencia Nacional 151, 48900, Autlán, Jal., Mexico. Email: petergerritsen@cucsur.udg.mx  The local effects of global processes in the Mex...
Door Dirk Roep op 10-22-2009 11:35
Last Saturday 30 adults and children came to help with the harvest of pumpkins of farmer André in the village of Hemmen, just four kilometers from Wageningen. We harvested around 9 thousand kilo of the approximately 15 thousand kilo on the one hectare field. The invitation to help was the fir...
Door Dirk Roep op 10-07-2009 16:33
Corn! The first harvest of sweet corn at the farmers market in Des Moines While I am staying in Ames, I am enjoying the fresh fruits and vegetables of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in which the Flora’s have a share. All throughout the growing season, the we...
Door Dirk Roep op 07-12-2009 20:49
Tuesday June 2, Wytze Nauta will defend his PhD-thesis ‘Selective Breeding in Organic Dairy Production’. A family herd Organic dairy farming doesn’t have a distinct breeding system. Farmers are free to breed with a farm bred bull or Artificial Insemination (AI) bulls ofÂ...
Door Dirk Roep op 05-26-2009 12:34
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Door Maarten Fischer op 11-24-2008 16:05