Will the G7 Make a Down-payment on Ending Hunger?
A new blog is out by Oxfam America's director of policy and research, Gawain Kripke. In the post he reflects on t the negotiations around new sustainable development goals, how these goals...
City Region Food Systems
A new issue of Urban Agriculture Magazine no. 29, which is a special issue on city region food systems. This issue addresses the growing attention for policy and practice approaches that focus on...
Summer School on Food Safety and Food Security in Europe: A multi-level educational perspective.
This summer I will have the pleasure of lecturing on food policy at a summer school hosted in Brescia, Italy. The theme of the school is Food Safety and Food...
Sustainable solutions in the supply chain could be worth €10,000!
The Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition is a food think tank based in Milan. Their Young Earth Solutions! student contest is open and they are looking for project ideas that make our food system more sustainable. Deadline:...
On the Political
Last week I wrote a few posts related to a talk I was asked to give to the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW). The talk was inspired in part by...
Contested Agronomy: Dynamics, Cases & Implications
Save the date! Upcoming conference Contested Agronomy: Dynamics, Cases & Implications to be held at IDS, Brighton, UK 23-25 February 2016 For more information see http://contestedagronomy2016.com...
Pecha Kucha: Governing the Doughnut
Today I gave a Pecha Kucha. A Pecha Kucha is a presentation of 6:20 with a series of 20 slides that change every 20 seconds. It is an unforgiving format...
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
This coming week I am giving two talks at conferences that seek to contribute answers to the question "how to feed 9 billion people by 2050". The first conference will be...
Useful resources for early career Sociologists
The Sociological Review just posted some great resources for early career sociologists. They include: Deborah Lupton offers 30 tips for successful research and writing Athene Donald explains why helping PhD students with career planning...