Rural Sociology

Projects

Projects per year 1992 2009 2011 2025

• 34 Active
• 83 Finished

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  Development Alternatives from the Middle East – North Africa: Big Plans and Small Farms in the Search for Sustainability

  Ajl, M. (PI) & Jongerden, J. (CoPI)

  1/01/21 → 1/01/23

  Project: PostDoc

  • Self Reliance 100%
  • North Africa 100%
  • Middle East 100%
  • Intellectual History 50%
  • Oral History 25%

• On processing potato

  Haverkort, A. (PhD candidate), Struik, P. (Promotor), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & Linnemann, A. (Co-promotor)

  1/12/20 → 14/09/22

  Project: PhD

• EFUA – European Forum on Urban Agriculture. Setting up a comprehensive vision on Urban Agriculture

  Vaandrager, L. (Project Leader), Jansma, J.-E. (PI) & Sovová, L. (CoI)

  1/11/20 → 31/10/24

  Project: Staff

  • Urban Agriculture 100%
  • Decision Making 25%

• The Politics of Youth Activism in the Kurdish Movement

  Saadi, S. (PI) & Jongerden, J. (CoPI)

  1/10/20 → 1/10/22

  Project: PostDoc

  • Turkey 100%
  • Rural Areas 100%
  • Spring 100%
  • North Africa 33%
  • Political Systems 33%

• Tackling Crises in the Countryside: An Integrative Approach to Regenerative Agriculture, Circular Agri-Food Systems, and Convivial Conservation

  Roep, D. (Project Leader), Schneider, M. (Project Leader) & Stein, S. (PI)

  1/10/20 → 1/09/23

  Project: PostDoc

  • Countryside 100%
  • Food systems 100%
  • Crisis 100%
  • Food Production 100%
  • Climate Change 100%

• Disruptive Innovations - place-based policies and pathways

  Husain, O. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & Roep, D. (Co-promotor)

  1/05/19 → 14/05/20

  Project: PhD

  • Civics 100%
  • Political Phenomenon 50%
  • Political Reality 50%
  • Transdisciplinary 50%
  • Political Action 50%

• Ontwikkeling en professionalisering van onderwijs op de boerderij: leerarrangementen in het groen (Wetenschapswinkel)

  Veen, E. (Project Leader) & Pijpker, R. (Project Leader)

  1/03/19 → 1/12/20

  Project: Research

• Boeren zonder land: hoe is dat mogelijk? (Wetenschapswinkel)

  Roep, D. (Project Leader)

  1/03/19 → 22/10/20

  Project: Research

• ENTAN - European Non-Territorial Autonomy Network

  Jongerden, J. (PI)

  28/02/19 → 27/02/23

  Project: Staff

  • Autonomy 100%
  • Group Work 25%
  • Civil Society 25%
  • Statehood 25%

• Agrarian Change

  Wiskerke, H. (PI), Roep, D. (CoPI), Jansen, K. (CoPI), Jongerden, J. (CoPI), Vicol, M. (CoPI) & Oostindie, H. (CoI)

  1/01/19 → 31/12/24

  Project: Staff

  • Agrarian Change 100%
  • Climate Change 25%
  • Project Studies 25%

• Foodscapes

  Wiskerke, H. (Project Leader), Duncan, J. (PI), Morrow, O. (CoPI), de Vrieze, A. (CoPI), Ruivenkamp, M. (CoI) & Sovová, L. (CoI)

  1/01/19 → 31/12/24

  Project: Staff

  • Food Aid 100%
  • Food Design 100%
  • Food systems 100%

• Urbanising in Place: Building the Food-Water-Energy nexus from below

  Wiskerke, H. (PI) & Ruivenkamp, M. (PI)

  1/03/18 → 1/09/21

  Project: PostDoc

  • Water-Energy Nexus 100%
  • Tight Junction 100%
  • Metropolitan Area 66%
  • Political Process 33%
  • Land Stewardship 33%

• Urbanising in Place. Building the food water energy nexus from below

  Sovová, L. (PI)

  1/03/18 → 1/03/21

  Project: PostDoc

  • Water-Energy Nexus 100%
  • Tight Junction 100%
  • Land Stewardship 33%
  • Metropolitan Area 33%
  • Food Production 33%

• Well-being, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity (WeGO)

  Sato, C. (PI) & Nakamura, N. (PI)

  1/01/18 → 1/01/22

  Project: Staff

  • Sustainable Development 100%
  • Political Ecology 100%
  • Europe 100%
  • Gender Research 50%
  • Economic Change 50%

• Bringing Organisations and Network Development to higher levels in the farming sector in Europe, BOND

  van Broekhuizen, R. (PI), Oostindie, H. (PI) & Wiskerke, H. (PI)

  1/10/17 → 1/10/20

  Project: Staff

  • Europe 100%
  • Best Practice 100%
  • Organization Level 100%
  • Training Session 100%
  • Decision-Making 100%

• Contrasting rural policies and the terms of incorporation of small farmers in the market

  Oviedo Rodriguez, C. (PhD candidate), Jansen, K. (Promotor) & Vellema, S. (Co-promotor)

  1/10/17 → 30/08/23

  Project: PhD

• Rebuilding the Commons through bricolage. Pathways for commoning forests in Spain and Portugal

  Nieto Romero, M. (PhD candidate) & Bock, B. (Promotor)

  1/10/17 → 16/12/22

  Project: PhD

• Caring with people, caring for places: Exploring the transformative capacity of Green Care as a place-shaping practice

  Moriggi, A. (PhD candidate), Bock, B. (Promotor) & Roep, D. (Co-promotor)

  1/08/17 → 1/06/21

  Project: PhD

  • Emotions 100%
  • Finland 100%
  • Recreation 100%
  • Semistructured Interview 100%
  • Mindset 100%

• Rural-Urban Outlooks: Unlocking Synergies (ROBUST)

  Wiskerke, H. (PI), Bock, B. (CoI), Duncan, J. (CoI), Oostindie, H. (CoI) & van Broekhuizen, R. (PI)

  1/06/17 → 30/11/21

  Project: Staff

  • Europe 100%
  • Case Study 100%
  • Training Material 66%
  • Capacity Building 50%
  • Research Priorities 50%

• Grow, share or buy? Understanding the diverse food economies of urban gardeners

  Sovová, L. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & Veen, E. (Co-promotor)

  1/01/17 → 13/10/20

  Project: PhD

  • Gardeners 100%
  • Ideal types 100%
  • Gardening 100%
  • Social Practice 100%
  • Practice Theory 50%

• Horticultural food systems based on ecologically intensive production and socio-economically sustainable value chains in the transition economies Chile and Uruguay (HortEco)

  Gaitan Cremaschi, D. (PI), Rossing, W. (CoI), Bianchi, F. (CoI), Klerkx, L. (PI), Trienekens, J. (PI) & Duncan, J. (PI)

  28/11/16 → 28/07/19

  Project: PostDoc

• Peasant farming and the stat food security in China: the case of Guangxi sugarcane sector

  Zhang, J. (PhD candidate) & van der Ploeg, J. (Promotor)

  1/07/16 → 8/04/19

  Project: PhD

  • Peasantry 100%
  • China 100%
  • State Intervention 100%
  • Structural Change 66%
  • Chinese 57%

• Landscape history in Marqués de Comillas: actors, policies, and colonization dynamics.

  Berget Moreno, C. (PI), Bongers, F. (CoI), van der Ploeg, J. (CoI), Berget Moreno, C. (PhD candidate), Bongers, F. (Promotor) & Verschoor, G. (Co-promotor)

  1/01/16 → 14/02/22

  Project: PhD

  • Land Use Change 100%
  • Land Use 100%
  • Land Use Type 22%
  • Primary Forest 22%
  • Regional Geography 22%

• Sustainable Place-Shaping (SUSPLACE)

  Roep, D. (PI), de Vrieze, A. (CoI), Pearson, K. (CoI), Soares da Silva, D. (CoI) & Husain, O. (CoI)

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Staff

  • Marie Curie 100%
  • Civil Society 50%
  • Policy Maker 50%

• Energy and Labour use: a comparison between organic and conventional farms in the Netherlands and China

  Yu, T. (PhD candidate) & van der Ploeg, J. (Promotor)

  21/08/15 → 20/11/19

  Project: PhD

  • China 100%
  • Netherlands 100%
  • Agricultural Production 100%
  • Organic Farming 100%
  • Case Study 100%

• History of Dutch potato breeding

  van Loon, J. (PhD candidate), Lammerts van Bueren, E. (Promotor), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & van Cruijningen, P. (Co-promotor)

  1/03/14 → 15/05/19

  Project: PhD

• TRANSMANGO

  Hebinck, P. (PI), Oostindie, H. (CoI), Hebinck, A. (CoI) & Villarreal Herrera, G. (CoI)

  1/02/14 → 31/01/18

  Project: Staff

• Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe's food and nutrition security.

  Hebinck, P. (CoI), Kok, K. (CoI) & Oostindie, H. (CoI)

  1/02/14 → 1/02/18

  Project: Staff

• Food sovereignth in Ecuador

  Vasconcellos Fernandez, N. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & Arce, A. (Co-promotor)

  1/12/13 → 10/03/21

  Project: PhD

  • Agricultural Policy 100%
  • Sovereignty 100%
  • Ecuador 100%
  • Public Policy 100%
  • Organoleptic Characteristics 50%

• Global and Local food chain Assessment: a MUltidimensional performance-based approach

  Wiskerke, H. (PI), van Broekhuizen, R. (CoI), Oostindie, H. (CoI) & Horlings, L. (CoI)

  1/02/13 → 1/02/16

  Project: Staff

• Coordinated European Animal Welfare Network

  Bock, B. (PI), Oostindie, H. (CoI) & Horlings, L. (CoI)

  31/12/12 → 31/12/13

  Project: Staff

• Multi-Stakeholder Platforms

  Ruivenkamp, G. (PI)

  24/10/12 → 1/07/13

  Project: Staff

• SUPURBFOOD - Towards Sustainable Modes of Urban and Peri-urban Food Provisioning

  Wiskerke, H. (PI), van Broekhuizen, R. (CoI) & Oostindie, H. (CoI)

  1/10/12 → 1/10/15

  Project: Staff

• Tailor-made biotechnologies for sustainable potato production

  Ruivenkamp, G. (PI)

  1/09/12 → 31/12/12

  Project: Staff

• Food and the city: a qualitative analysis of food provisioning in Dar es Salaam

  Wegerif, M. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & Hebinck, P. (Co-promotor)

  27/02/12 → 22/06/17

  Project: PhD

  • Food systems 100%
  • Industrial Food System 25%
  • Egg 8%
  • Green Vegetable 8%

• The transnationalisation of local water battles: Water accumulation by agribusinesses in Peru and Ecuador and the politics of corporate social responsibility

  Boelens, R. (PI), van der Ploeg, J. (CoI), Vincent, L. (CoI), Zwarteveen, M. (CoI), Dominguez Guzman, C. (CoI), Mena Vasconez, P. (CoI) & Urteaga Corvetto, P. (CoI)

  15/09/11 → 15/09/16

  Project: Staff

• Drip irrigation in Morocco: an element of gendered agrarian change?

  Bossenbroek, L. (PhD candidate), Zwarteveen, M. (Promotor) & van der Ploeg, J. (Promotor)

  1/09/11 → 20/09/16

  Project: PhD

  • Morocco 100%
  • Dynamics 100%
  • Veil 100%
  • Social differences 100%
  • Smooth transition 100%

• Agricultural entrepreneurship in a changing environment

  Methorst, R. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor), Roep, D. (Co-promotor) & Verstegen, J. (Co-promotor)

  1/09/11 → 18/11/16

  Project: PhD

  • Strategic Decision Making 100%
  • Decision-Making 100%
  • Decision Making 100%
  • Development Strategy 75%
  • Embeddedness 75%

• The social construction of institutional markets: The trajectory of the Brazilian School Feeding Programme

  Lozano Torres, C. (PhD candidate) & Wiskerke, H. (Promotor)

  15/06/11 → 13/03/19

  Project: PhD

  • System Change 100%
  • Brazil 100%
  • Food Service 100%
  • Food systems 100%
  • Collective Action 50%

• Examining notions of alternativeness in the food co-operative movement

  Constance, C. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & Horlings, L. (Co-promotor)

  14/06/11 → 21/06/17

  Project: PhD

  • Local Food 100%
  • Grocery Store 33%
  • Organic Food 16%
  • Natural Food 16%
  • Food Industry 16%

• Sustainability in food supply chains: a coevolutionary perspective

  Villarreal Herrera, G. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor) & van der Schans, J. W. (Co-promotor)

  1/06/11 → 26/06/17

  Project: PhD

  • UK 100%
  • Semi-Structured Interview 100%
  • Documentary Analysis 100%
  • Europe 100%
  • Ireland 100%

• Genomics and the production of commons: Open source as a method 'to go beyond' public and private knowledge production

  Lemmens, P. (CoI) & Ruivenkamp, G. (PI)

  1/05/11 → 1/05/13

  Project: PostDoc

• The establishment of land transactions during Dutch spatial planning projects. A study to the aspects that influence the considerations landowners make during land transactions

  Holtslag-Broekhof, S. (PhD candidate), Wiskerke, H. (Promotor), Beunen, R. (Co-promotor) & van Marwijk, R. (Co-promotor)

  1/03/11 → 6/06/16

  Project: PhD

• Support of learning and innovation networks for sustainable agriculture (SOLINSA)

  Hermans, F. (CoI), Roep, D. (CoI) & Klerkx, L. (PI)

  15/02/11 → 15/02/14

  Project: PostDoc

• Agricultural Knowledge Systems in Transition: Towards a more effective and efficient support of Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture Project Acronym: SOLINSA

  Hermans, F. (CoI), Roep, D. (PI) & Klerkx, L. (CoI)

  1/02/11 → 31/01/14

  Project: PostDoc

• Agricultural and rural transformation processes

  Bock, B. (CoI), van der Ploeg, J. (CoI), Roep, D. (CoI), Wiskerke, H. (PI), van Broekhuizen, R. (CoI), Oostindie, H. (CoI), Weenink, D. (CoI) & Horlings, L. (CoI)

  1/01/11 → 1/01/17

  Project: Staff

• Place-based development

  Bock, B. (CoI), Roep, D. (CoI), Wiskerke, H. (PI), Jongerden, J. (CoI), Duncan, J. (CoI), Oostindie, H. (CoI) & Klok, J. (CoI)

  1/01/11 → 31/12/22

  Project: Staff

• FOODLINKS, knowledge brokerage to promote sustainable food consumption and production: linking scientists, policymakers and civil society organisations

  Bock, B. (PI) & Wiskerke, H. (CoI)

  1/01/11 → 31/12/13

  Project: Staff

• Urban food provisioning

  Bock, B. (CoI), Wiskerke, H. (PI) & Duncan, J. (CoI)

  1/01/11 → 1/01/17

  Project: Staff

• PUREFOOD: Urban, peri-urban and regional food dynamics: toward an integrated and territorial approach to food

  van der Schans, J. W. (CoI), Bock, B. (CoI), Wiskerke, H. (PI), Derkzen, P. (CoI) & Hegger, E. (CoI)

  1/12/10 → 30/11/14

  Project: Staff