Last year I spoke at a workshop on gender and food security The summary has been posted: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/foodsecurity/newsandevents/pastevents/genderfs This workshop addressed the international gender dimensions of food security, focusing on women as producers...
I came across these individually wrapped carrots in my local supermarket. [caption id="attachment_1376" align="aligncenter" width="584"] Do you want your carrots wrapped in plastic?[/caption] WHY? And for the Dutch word of the day: carrot-/ noun...
Does This Taste Funny To You? Teens Face Off in Competitive Dairy Tasting By Karen Pinchin In her second year of high school in bucolic Woodbury, Connecticut, 15-year-old Hannah O’Brien was thinking...
This week is open access week! For more information, click here “Open Access” to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to...
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have moved to the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. I will now also be blogging on their blog. Here is a...
FoodTank have compiled a list of 26 food activism films. Those who know me know that I really dislike watching movies. It's not some sort of high-culture "I prefer books,...
Initially, when food security came into use at the international level, it was conceptualised as an outcome: the object of food security policies was to make people food secure. However...
Some of you may know that the FAO offers free, online e-learning courses on a wide range of interesting topics. If you didn't know, check them out. They are really...
It's been a whirlwind few months for me which has left very little time for blogging. Interestingly, I have also seen the highest rise in followers, which is wonderful, but suggests...
Came across this article by Michael Carolan in Sociologia Ruralis and thought others may find it interesting. Abstract Noting that the field of agro-food studies has undergone numerous ‘turns’ over the years, this article...
