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2006

Research, Consultancy and Educational Commissions

Co-author and researcher for "Feeding Tomorrow's Generation" (forthcoming, 2007) advocacy document for the UK Food Group on the role of agroecology in meeting Millennium Development Goals relating to poverty, hunger and environmental sustainability.

Revising and updating IFOAM's Policy Dossier on Organic Agriculture and Food Security.


English Language Editing

Books

Roep.D. & J. Wiskerke (Eds.) (2006) Nourishing Networks: Fourteen Lessons about Creating Sustainable Food Supply Chains. Doetinchem. Reed Business Information.

IFOAM (2007) Training Manual for Organic Agriculture in the Humid Tropics. IFOAM, Bonn

IFOAM (2007) Training Manual for Organic Agriculture in the Arid and Semi Arid Tropics. IFOAM, Bonn.

A. Hildering (Ed) (2007) Inspiring Stories: Experiences from four South Asian Countries, CIDSE, Brussels


Reports, etc.

C. Almekinders, J. Hardon et al (2007)   Bringing Farmers back into Breeding: Experiences with participatory plant breeding and challenges for institutionalisation.Agromisa, Wageningen

Both Ends   2005 Annual Report / Fact sheet on small granting organisations.

VROM -   Green-Blue Veining in Support of Natural Pest Control - A Case Study from the Netherlands

Agroeco   2005 Annual Report


Journals, Articles, etc.

Regular English language Editor for LUTRA (VZZ) and guest English language editor for two editions of the ILEIA journal

In addition TextualHealing edited several journal articles and book chapters. These covered issues as diverse as: small scale fisheries in Yemen; urban agriculture, female entrepreneurship in rural areas; discourses over global warming, and factors affecting uptake of low input farming in east Africa.

Journals to which these articles have been submitted (and in many cases accepted) include:
- Agricultural Systems
- Marine Policy
- Trends in Ecology and Evolution
- Landscape Research
- Sociologica Ruralis


Theses

Shuyi Feng Land Rental Market and Off-farm Employment. Rural households in Jiangxi Province, P.R. China . PhD thesis, Dept. of Development Economics, WUR.

Girmay Tesfay Agriculture, Resource Management and Institutions. A socioeconomic analysis of households in Tigray, Ethiopia. PhD thesis, Dept. of Development Economics, WUR.

Shi Xiaping Away off the farm - the impact of off-farm employment on farm production, factor market development and sustainable land use in Jiangxi Province, P. R. China'. PhD thesis, Institute of Social Sciences, The Hague



 

2005

Research, Consultancy and Educational Commissions

Presentations on the development potentials of organic and agroecological farming to the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD) Zurich (April) and the Commonwealth Human Ecology Forum, Valetta (November)

Co-author with Hebinck, P. and A-M Westendorp of Livelihoods, a web based learning module- Dept. of Development Sociology Wageningen University.

Supervision for MSC students doing theses on organic farming in Tanzania (WUR) and environmental Decision making in a UN Habitat Programme project in Nigeria (Open University, UK)


English Language Editing:

Books

Halberg, N., H.F. Alrøe, M.T. Knudsen and E.S. Kristensen (eds.) (2006) Global Development of Organic Agriculture: Challenges and Promises. CAB International, Wallingford, UK.

Diedrich, L., R Holden and E. Luiten (eds.) (2006) Fieldwork, European Landscape Architecture Foundation Wageningen / Birkhauser Basel-Boston-Berlin.

O’Connor, D. H. Renting, M. Gorman, and J. Kinsella (eds.) (2006) Driving Rural Development: Policy and Practice in Seven EU Countries. Van Gorcum, Essen.


Reports etc.

ILEIA   Reader’s Survey of the Global Edition of LEISA Magazine in 2004 (internal document)

Hardon, J.J.   Evaluation Report of the Asian Programme on the Use and Conservation of Biodiversity (BUCAP). SEARICE / Norwegian Development Fund, Oslo, Norway

Robberts, T, C.   Monticinos and J.J Hardon. External Evaluation Review of the Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration (ETC). SWEDBIO, Stockholm, Sweden.

Agroeco   Annual Report 2004


Journals, Articles, etc.

Regular English language Editor for LUTRA (VZZ). In addition TextualHealing edited ten or so journal articles and conference papers, covering issues as diverse as: sociological theory, global rural transformation, farmer experimentation, farming styles, landscape design, design for improved animal welfare in low intensity farming systems, landscape ecology, landscape, identity ad seasonality and urban agriculture.

Journals / conferences to which these articles have been submitted (and in many cases accepted) include:
- The Journal of Agricultural Science:
- Agriculture and Human Values:
- Sociologica Ruralis:
- Biological Conservation:
- Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences:
- The Edgar Allen Companion to Development Studies


Theses

Wright, J. (2005) “Falta Petreleo: perspectives on the emergence of a more ecological farming and food system in post-crisis Cuba”. PhD Thesis, Communication and Innovation Studies Group, WUR.

Shuhao, T. (2005) “Land fragmentation in China”. PhD thesis, Dept. of Development Economics, WUR.



 

2003-4

Research, Consultancy and Educational Commissions

Presentations on the development potentials of organic and agroecological farming at: VI Congress de la Sociedad Espanola de Agricultura Ecologica. (Almeira, September 2004): and DARCOF Workshop on Organic Farming in a Global Perspective: Globalisation, Sustainable Development and Ecological Justice (Copenhagen, April 2004).

Draft strategy report for the Austrian Development Corporation on the development potential of organic farming (in partnership with BOKU, Vienna), 2004

Evaluation of the effectiveness of support to providers of training in organic agriculture in East Africa for HIVOS, 2004

Organic and Like-Minded Movements in Africa: Development and Status. Report to IFOAM (in partnership with AgroEco), 2003

Lecturing on Organics Course for professional level students from developing countries, International Agricultural Centre, Wageningen (2004-3)


English Language Editing:

Books

Wiskerke J.S.C. and J.D. van der Ploeg (eds) (2004) Seeds of Transition: Essays on Novelty Production, Niches and Regimes in Agriculture. Van Gorcum, Essen, pps. 356

Ploeg, J.D. van der (2003) The Virtual Farmer: The Past, Present and Future of The Dutch Peasantry Van Gorcum, Essen, pps. 432

Reports, etc.

Hardon, J.J. and J. A. Vos (2004)   Patents and Farmer Seed Systems Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Rights and Farmer Seed Systems. Agromisa, Wageningen

NAGREF / PPO (2003)   Sustainable Fertigation Techniques For Vegetable Production in Greece. (Successful) bid to the Marie Curie Host Fellowships for the Transfer of Knowledge.

Dept of Rural Sociology (2003)   Curriculum 2003-4, Wageningen University.

Dept of Rural Sociology (2003)   European MSc-module on Rural Development. Study Programme: Rural Development from an international and multi-disciplinary perspective. Course Prospectus. Wageningen University

Agroeco 2003   Annual Report.