Food Governance

MSc Theses

I supervise MSc theses and internships, and BSc theses related to ongoing research projects.

Lunch at FAO with former MSc students (2024)

A list of some of the MSc projects I have supervised over the years include:

  1. Aidoko, V. O. (2025). Gender responsive budgeting in Nigeria: Using the African feminism perspective to analyse GRB in Nigeria. WUR Thesis Repository
  2. Esche, L. (2025). No woman’s land: The constitutive effects of discourses on gender inequality in German agricultural policy – A poststructural policy analysis. WUR Thesis Repository
  3. Kronbach, J. M. (2025). Political agroecology in Switzerland: Exploring transformative capacities in a post-political food system. WUR Thesis Repository
  4. Holsteijn, S. E. van. (2024). Improving farmers’ participatory roles in food policy. WUR Thesis Repository
  5. Dorssers, S. J. C. (2024). A critical analysis of youth participation in multistakeholder organisations in global food systems governance: A case of the World Food Forum. WUR Thesis Repository
  6. Oliani, M. C. (2024). Food forest governance in the Netherlands: Examined through the lens of local scale experimentalist governance. WUR Thesis Repository
  7. Santen, M. E. van. (2023). Analysing problem representations of women farmers in Dutch agricultural policy. WUR Thesis Repository
  8. Lledo San Mauro, F. (2023). Assembling policy: Public food procurement favoring agroecology in Argentinian municipalities. WUR Thesis Repository
  9. Brekelmans, D. H. (2023). The governance of risk in European livestock systems. WUR Thesis Repository
  10. Colombant, S. L. L. M. (2023). Playing with Reason: Exploring how people experience embodying rationalities other than their own. WUR Thesis Repository
  11. Weinberg, Y. (2023). How farmers disentangle from convention and develop ecological and social objectives in Lincolnshire. WUR Thesis Repository
  12. Linnaks Passani, C. A. (2023). Exploring sense of place amongst smallholder farmers in rural Ciociaria. WUR Thesis Repository
  13. Kohane, A. S. (2022). The impact of community gardening for sustainable place-shaping: A case study in the Lucchese Plain, Italy. WUR Thesis Repository
  14. Meulman, F. (2022). The potential of lupin to support sustainable food system transformation in the Netherlands. WUR Thesis Repository
  15. Andreoni, M. P. (2022). Seeds of transition?: A critical discourse analysis of transition in the EU Farm to Fork Strategy from the perspective of cultivated diversity. WUR Thesis Repository
  16. Pijnenburg, S. A. (2021). Policy discourse in Dutch agricultural transitions (incomplete title). WUR Thesis Repository
  17. Serra, A. (2019). Assembling AFNs: Exploring alternative food networks in policy (incomplete title). WUR Thesis Repository
  18. Heyland, S. K. (2017). Exploring characteristics and practices of community supported agriculture in Germany. WUR Thesis Repository
  19. Sonkin, F. (2017). Municipal goats: Exploring social relations and multiple ruralities in El Boalo, Spain. WUR Thesis Repository
  20. Orzes, A. B. (2017). Scaled-up Alternative Food Networks in developing countries: A case study of Slow Food International in India. WUR Thesis Repository
  21. Geuze, J. (2017). “An occupied space that is always under threat”: Strategies for civil society participation in the Committee on World Food Security. WUR Thesis Repository
  22. Deijl, L. (2017). Discourses and depoliticization of agroecology in global governance. WUR Thesis Repository
  23. Dougan, E. (2016). Bringing value to waste: How entrepreneurs are changing the way we use and view food waste. WUR Thesis Repository
  24. Pasca di Magliano, L. (2016). Edible insects, innovative protein source for a transition in the food landscape. WUR Thesis Repository
  25. Franke, C. (2016). The multiplicity of place: Constituting place through food in Galapagos. WUR Thesis Repository
  26. Vasile, M. (2016). Re-presenting local food (incomplete title). WUR Thesis Repository
  27. Riel, N. van. (2015). The impact of local food initiatives on sustainable diets (incomplete title). WUR Thesis Repository
  28. Compagner, M. (2015). Democratic food citizenship within civic food networks: An analysis from a shifting food paradigm perspective. WUR Thesis Repository
  29. Sibbing, L. (2014). “Two times more with two times less”: Framing and reframing of global food security at Wageningen University and Research Centre. WUR Thesis Repository
  30. Neubauer, F. (2014). New opportunities and new constraints: Understanding changes in land tenure and livelihoods among the Pastoral Maasai in Southern Kenya. WUR Thesis Repository