Het eten wat op ons bord ligt heeft steeds meer kilometers afgelegd voor het daar terecht is gekomen. Een opkomend alternatief is voedsel uit zogenoemde ‘korte ketens’, waarbij geprobeerd wordt de afstand tussen producent en consument – zowel fysiek als mentaal - te verkleinen. Maar wat is de capaciteit …

With the beautiful new building of Aeres University of Applied Sciences Almere in the Floriade park, we have materialized our wish to lead the way in the green transition and its challenges. We want to be green changemakers and have the ambition to take on the challenges that we are faced with in agriculture, …

Door te erkennen dat tuinieren voor veel mensen een belangrijke hobby is die rust, beweging en een gevoel van nut verschaft, kunnen we misschien afstappen van het idee dat het vergroenen van de openbare ruimte altijd meetbare voordelen moet opleveren, betoogt Esther Veen.

In the history of rural sociology, the city has taken its place next to the countryside as animportant research area, and our research is no longer limited to the professional foodproducer. The article can be found on p. 133

Multifunctional farming – an umbrella term used to indicate a combination of agricultureand services to society – has been a research subject for the Rural Sociology Group for decades. One new multifunctional activity is education at the care farm. The article can be found on p. 131.

These conference proceedings to the 10th annual conference of the AESOP Sustainable Food Planning group are organised as follows: the following four sections contain the short papers belonging to the four tracks that made up the conference (social inclusion; urban agriculture; urban planning, design …

Urban food is a key lever for transformative change towards sustainability. While research reporting on the urban food practices (UFPs) in support of sustainability is increasing, the link towards transformative potential is lacking. This is because research on urban food is often place-based and contextual. …

When children drop out of school, either temporarily or permanently, this poses a significant problem for both children and society. In the Netherlands, care farms offering care-education programs for school dropouts are emerging. While there is evidence for their effectiveness, models explaining how …

This book contains the abstracts to the sessions presented at the AESOP Sustainable Food Planning conference in 2022. The conference was made up of four tracks: social inclusion; urban agriculture; urban planning, design and development; food governance.