Projects
Informal public governance: The cases of primary education and urban agriculture in peri-urban Kinshasa (DRC). University of Antwerp
Technological innovations in a dynamic institutional environment: introduction of GMOs in Flemish agriculture Ghent University
How much pressure the evolution of agrotechnology experts on the urbanized Flemish agriculture is unclear. Therefore, decoding the structure of the GMO-debate and identifying the criteria linked with the different social vieuwpoints, using a socia-technical scenario analysis, aims to initialize and evaluate decisions made about GMO-technology in Flanders. This even so covers the question of impact for negating this technology.
The Transformation of Agriculture and Women Farmworkers' Political Mobilization for labor rights in Southern Morocco Ghent University
This thesis studies the role of women farmworkers in organizing and mobilizing for the right to perform and the right to work in southern Morocco. It wants to understand the political role of women farmworkers by analyzing their relationships with unions, commercial farms, and the state. Furthermore, it researches how agrarian capitalism’s transformation, particularly the agribusinesses’ upsurge, impacts women agricultural workers’ political ...
Food from Somewhere? Urban Households, Access to Land and Alternative Food Entitlements in the Late Medieval City. University of Antwerp
Nutrient budgets, flows, and loops: understanding, measuring, and fostering circularity in urban food systems KU Leuven
Cities are important nodes in a food system, even when they lack any agricultural activity. On the one hand, they concentrate consumption and drive food production; on the other, they produce big quantities of nutrient-rich effluents (organic waste, sewage sludge) that are typically wasted and not returned to the soil. Understanding and fostering the circularity of urban food systems through closing, narrowing, and slowing material and energy ...
Urban Academy: a collaboratorium for sustainability issues in Ghent Ghent University
The Urban Academy focuses on socio-ecological problems in the city of Ghent and at Ghent University. Academic staff, students, policy makers, civil society actors, etc. work in inter- and transdisciplinary research processes on problem definitions and possible solutions, (living lab) experiments and upscaling initiatives, (policy) reports and scientific articles. Our theoretical and analytical framework integrates socio-spatial, ...