After sharing Shumaila’s deepest thoughts with you last month, we are continuing to present the Boerengroep interns this month, and today we get to know Cristina Biddlecome-Cañaveral a little bit better! With her creative ideas and captivating writing, we are very lucky to have her in our team. Read below how she got struck by … Read more
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and the Farm to Fork Strategy: what you need to know The Common Agricultural Policy, the EU-policy that supplies income support for European farmers and promotes rural development, has been abundantly talked about lately. This week, the European Parliament is voting about the current proposal for the CAP reform, … Read more
Friends of The Earth International, Transnational Institute and Crocevia published a new report: ‘Junk Agroecology’: The corporate capture of agroecology for a partial ecological transition without social justice’ Download here: https://www.tni.org/files/publication-downloads/38_foei_junk_agroecology_full_report_eng_lr_0.pdf Give it a read and let’s discuss.
Become an intern at Boerengroep and organize 50 years Boerengroep activities! We currently have a specific internship vacancy at Boerengroep, starting from November 1st (a later date is also possible). A Boerengroep internship consists of three parts, as is illustrated below. We are looking for an intern to help with the making of a 50 … Read more
This time we interviewed Shumaila Shaikh, a well-experienced Farm Experience Internship organizer and currently an intern at Boerengroep. Enjoy! What is your name? Shumaila Shaikh Where are you from? Coastal India Do you have a farming/theatre background? Yes! In both. I played the shoemakers wife in a play when I was 10 and I grew … Read more
“Today the Nyéléni Food Sovereignty Movement in Europe and Central Asia (Nyéléni ECA) launches a practical tool to support and strengthen land struggles for small and medium-scale food producers and local communities. Land access issues, long since recognised in international and institutional spaces, are even more urgent in the current context: both due to the … Read more
In this video, which replaces the FEI kick-off that we would normally make an event around, we explore what agroecology means for these farmers that we work together with, and we learn about the origins of the FEI, and how it ended up in the Netherlands, about 8 years ago. Are you curious about the … Read more
Let’s gain some insight into the perspective of farmers during the changes that are currently affecting all of us. This week, in the first episode of the online Farmers’ Tales, we give the word to Chris Chancellor, farmer at Pluktuin Sayuran! What are the online farmers’ tales? Because of the Corona-measurements, Stichting Boerengroep and Stichting … Read more
Here you can (re-)watch the presentation given by Niek Pepels during our event on the 12th of May 2020 (the first minute is missing, sorry for that): It has been known for a while that our global phosphorous reserves are diminishing due to an increasing demand of the nutrient in the fertilizer industry. The mining … Read more
In 2021, Stichting Boerengroep and Stichting Inspringtheater are turning 50! We have plenty of fun activities and interesting events planned for this festive year, such as discussion evenings about different topics such as peasant farming, an exposition about Dutch agriculture in the past 50 years and a big festival! But… we are still … Read more
