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Events ‘Présentation de l’Avant-projet de Plan National pour un Développement Durable’   Thursday 27th September 2018 Team members attended the presentation of the national plan for sustainable development (Présentation du projet de Plan National pour un Développement Durable), organised by the Ministre de l’Environnement, Carole Dieschbourg, the Ministre des Finances, Pierre Gramegna, and the Ministre … Continued

Events Urban Farming National Strategy   December 2018 In December of 2018 Dr. Rachel Reckinger was approached by Nicolas Zita and Bruno Renders from Neobuild SA, to take part in a work group looking at a National Strategy for Urban Farming. The workgroup took place in the presence of Minister Carole Dieschbourg. This work is … Continued

Events Conference: "The top-down diffusion process of agroecological practices within farmer groups in Bilanga, Burkina Faso: barriers to agroecological knowledge creation?"   27th – 30th April 2019 Dr. Diane Kapgen presented the paper ‘The top-down diffusion process of agroecological practices within farmer groups in Bilanga, Burkina Faso: barriers to agroecological knowledge creation?’ at the Royal … Continued

Events Lunch Debate: Sustainable Food Practices   Wednesday 3th October 2018 The University of Luxembourg Multidisciplinary Area of Research in Sustainability (MARS) and Caritas Luxembourg organised a lunch debate on the topic of Sustainable Food Practices. Dr. Rachel Reckinger gave a lecture about ‘Alternative Food Networks in Luxembourg’s Foodscape’. Find the flyer here Rachel Reckinger’s … Continued

Events European Sociological Association Mid-term Conference: "Consumption and Consumerism: Conceptual and Empirical Sociological Challenges"   30th August – 1st September 2018 Dr. Rachel Reckinger presented the paper ‘Contested Claims for Social and Environmental Justice. Ambivalences between Mundane and Deliberate Consumption in Alternative Food Networks’ at the European Sociological Association's Mid-term Conference. The event was organised … Continued

Events Organisation of a session at the 4th International Convention of the History and Cultures of Food   7th – 8th June 2018 Dr. Rachel Reckinger and Dr. Stefan Wahlen co-organised the session ‘Foodscapes in Transition: Policies and Politics Advancing Sustainable Development and Social Justice’ at the 4th International Convention of the History and Cultures … Continued

Events Transition Days 2018: Our Food our Future   9th – 10th March 2018 Dr. Rachel Reckinger was a speaker at the participatory ‘fishbowl’ conference ‘Our Food for Future: de quelle Transition Alimentaire avons-nous besoin?’ as part of Transition Days. The Transition Days weekend functioned as a laboratory, and brought together citizen consumers, farmers, researchers, … Continued

Events Presentation: "Alternative Actors in the Foodscape: Enabling Policies and Politics of Contested Claims for Social and Environmental Justice"   7th – 8th June 2018   7th – 8th June 2018 Dr. Rachel Reckinger presented her paper ‘Alternative Actors in the Foodscape: Enabling Policies and Politics of Contested Claims for Social and Environmental Justice’ at … Continued

Events EU Food and Farming Forum (EU3F)   29th – 30th May 2018 Dr. Rachel Reckinger attended the EU Food and Farming Forum (EU3F) alongside over 250 people, to discuss the need for an EU Common Food Policy ‘a policy comprehensive enough to bring together the different sectoral policies that affect food production, processing, distribution, and consumption, … Continued