Projects
Governing Seeds as a Commons for Food Security: A Normative Shift from Appropriation to Sharing University of Antwerp
Aquaculture and food security: defining potential opportunities for the development of aquaculture in Ethiopia Ghent University
Aquaculture is essential for food security, but its development in Ethiopia is slower due to scattered research initiatives, less structured government policy and lack of strategies for training, R&D and extension. This INCO is the first of its kind, in gathering policy makers, researchers and field workers in Ethiopia, aquaculture experts from other African countries and north partners to share knowledge and experiences and to define ...
The relevance of the family in adressing food, health and environment insecurity. University of Antwerp
Conservation of biomass for dairy rations via ensiling to optimize feed security in South Ethiopia KU Leuven
Feed conservation is a prerequisite for successful dairy production. The dairy sector plays a significant role in poverty alleviation for millions of smallholder farmers. In this regard, feed shortage was shown to be the major bottleneck for dairy development in Ethiopia. Based on their findings, researchers are making a lot of interventions to improve the dairy sector in the country. Yet, the interventions do not allow the dairy sector to ...
Food from Somewhere? Urban Households, Access to Land and Alternative Food Entitlements in the Late Medieval City. University of Antwerp
Groundwater Security in Africa: Groundwater enhancement through Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and Managed Artificial Recharge (MAR) Ghent University
This short visit or stay in UGent will be devoted to prepare a proposal on Enhancing water security in Africa through Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR). The proposal will be designed to bring together the networks of the North and South promoters and be founded on the results and achievements of previous hydrogeology projects of both research groups.
Groundwater enhancement through Artificial Recharge Techniques: Implications for water security and sustainability (proposal preparation phase) Ghent University
This short visit or stay in UGent will be devoted to prepare a proposal related to the development of innovative techniques and methods for artificial recharge opportunities and possibilities in the Mekelle Mesozoic sedimentary basin or Mekelle Outlier. The proposal will be designed to be founded on the results and achievements of previous projects with UGent.
Organic food and alternative food networks in Beijing, China KU Leuven
Before chemical inputs were invented, food was mainly produced in an ecological way. In the 1980s, China developed the capacity to build its own fertilizer plants, and since then, to sustain a growing population and maintain producers competitivity under market conditions, chemical fertilisers were largely used in food production to increase yields. Due to insufficient government supervision, food safety remains a prominent problem in ...
Building resilience in Urban Food Systems. The challenge of scaling-up alternative food distribution networks. An exploration through comparative case-study analysis. KU Leuven
This dissertation focuses on the governance of alternative food networks (AFNs). The aim is to identify, conceptualize and empirically investigate the critical governance tensions conditioning the genesis and the life-course of alternative food initiatives. To this purpose this dissertation develops a Hybrid Governance Approach (HGA) which identifies three types of governance tensions - i.e. organizational, resource and institutional - and ...