Boogaard, B.K., Bock, B.B., Oosting, S.J., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
Society’s relationship with modern animal farming is an ambivalent one: on the one hand there is rising criticism about modern animal farming; on the other hand people appreciate certain aspects of...
Linking birds, fields and farmers (2009)
Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
The dramatic decline in the presence of farmland birds during recent decades has provoked much attention in agri-environmental policy and ecological research. However, the still limited understanding...
Derkzen, P.H.M., Bock, B.B., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
Partnerships for rural development are often presented as powerful ways of promoting 'integration'. This paper examines the reality of this claim, first by analysing what 'integration' means and then...
This paper departs from the observation that the industrialization and globalization of the agri-food supply chain has disconnected food from its socio-cultural and physical territorial context. In...
Creating robuster regions: Dynamism, coherence and diversity in Europe's urban-rural linkages (2008)
Constructing a Sustainable Pork Supply Chain: a Case of Techno-institutional Innovation (2007)
Pork production in the Netherlands is dominated by an agro-industrial approach, which has led to several sustainability problems. Due to path dependency, this prevailing mode of production is...
Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
The future of agriculture and its role in rural areas is a topic of ongoing societal, political and scientific debate in Europe. Rural development, characterized by integrating functions such as food...
Het vermarkten van duurzame landbouw: kansen voor nieuwe voedselketens (2006)
Oerlemans, N., Oostindie, H.A., Brandsma, P.J., Wiskerke, J.S.C., Roep, D.
Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
This paper is an intermediate result of an ongoing research project about rural development and multifunctional agriculture. The research project is part of a Dutch - French research programme...
Swagemakers, P., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
The future of agriculture and its role in rural areas is a topic of ongoing societal, political and scientific debate in Europe. Rural development, characterized by integrating functions such as food...
On Regimes, Novelties, Niches and Co-Production (2004)
Bouma, J., Rip, A., Rijkenberg, F.H.J., Ventura, F., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
On Regimes, Novelties, Niches and Co-Production (2004)
Bouma, J., Rip, A., Rijkenberg, F.H.J., Ventura, F., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
On Regimes, Novelties, Niches and Co-Production (2004)
Ploeg Van Der, J.D., Bouma, J., Rip, A., Rijkenberg, F.H.J., Ventura, F., Wiskerke, J.S.C.
Growing concerns about the consequences of large-scale production systems and, subsequently, the growing public demand for changing the dominant mode of agricultural production have become important...
Environmental co-operatives as a new mode of rural governance (2003)
Wiskerke, J.S.C., Bock, B.B., Stuiver, M., Renting, H.
The modernization paradigm, which for many decades dominated agricultural practices, policies and science, is gradually being replaced by a rural development paradigm. The emerging rural development...
In this paper the case of the environmental co-operatives VEL and VANLA is reviewed in terms of coevolving technical and institutional change and the strategic lessons to be learned for a pro-active...
T.R. - NJAS Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences (2003)
Wiskerke, J.S.C., Verhoeven, F.P.M., Brussaard, L., Struik, P.C., Wienk, J.F.
INTRODUCTION(Chapter 1)In agricultural science, farming is often seen as an activity guided by the 'iron' laws of nature or by the 'iron' laws of economy. In this book I take a different position....
Thesis (doctoral)--Landbouwuniversiteit Wageningen, 1997.