The sustainable provision of enough nutritious food for a growing world population is pushing the food system towards finding new approaches to agriculture (Ockenden, et al., 2017). While the demand of animal products is rising (Armanda, Guinée, & Tukker, 2019), the negative effect on the climate, soil, …

Presentatie van openings-keynote op deze vijfde ClimateExistence conferentie in Zweden

A dike has been punctured to allow limited tidal waterflows into an agricultural landscape near the village of De Heen in the west of Brabant Province. A transition towards a brackish agriculture will be supported by a saline visitor center that is embedded in the water flows surrounded by new crops, …

How art can help us in finding connections to the more-than-human world?

The Northern Netherlands is like many delta’s prone to a wide range of climate change effects. Given the region its long history with floods and adaptation, there are numerous initiatives to be found that tried to battle these effects. As part of the Climate Adaptation Week Groningen, an inventory was …

The working group Ethics in (artistic) research of kunst ≈ research invites researchers from the art schools to a programme on ethical dilemmas on Monday May 17. The programme is for professors, post-doc researchers, PhD candidates and teacher-researchers, to explore together ethical issues and questions …

Guest talk for the Art & Sustainability month at the RUG

How to encourage students to choose for a future in agrifood? Not like we always did. The labor market shows an increasing shortage. The agrifood sector plays a significant role in achieving global food security and environmental sustainability. Scholars hardly realize what they can contribute to these …