Researcher
Joost Dessein
- Keywords (Ghent University):political ecology, food policy, urban food system, rural sociology
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Sociology of development, Food sciences and (bio)technology not elsewhere classified, Urban, rural and regional economics, Development studies
Affiliations
- Social Sciences (Research unit)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2019 - Department of Agricultural Economics (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Rural Development (Division)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2018 - Department of Agricultural economics (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2009 → 31 Dec 2017 - Transition (Division)
Responsible
From1 Jan 2007 → 31 Dec 2011
Projects
1 - 9 of 9
- Assessing how food systems can guarantee the right to adequate food for vulnerable groups: the case of street childrenFrom1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- Evolving Epistemologies: understanding hybrid knowledge and its impact on livelihoods in migrantagricultural settings in Ghana.From1 Nov 2023 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- From Transfer of Technology to Agricultural Innovation Systems? An analysis of the dynamics and challenges of agricultural extension in Northwest Ethiopia, Amhara RegionFrom1 Jan 2023 → 31 Dec 2023Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Community Resilience and Environmental Justice in the Context of Extractive Industries in Rural Areas: The case of oil and gas drilling in Albertine Graben UgandaFrom1 Oct 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Agroecology and the Emergence of a New Societal Paradigm: a Comparative Case Study on Social Movements and TransitionsFrom1 Nov 2020 → TodayFunding: FWO fellowships
- UGent Human Rights Research NetworkFrom1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- Urban Academy: a collaboratorium for sustainability issues in GhentFrom1 Jan 2020 → TodayFunding: BOF - research organisations
- Understanding hybrid knowledge and its impact on livelihoods in migrant-agricultural settings in Ghana.From1 Nov 2019 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- Engendering displacement and resettlement in Ethiopia: the case of Nech Sare National park.From1 Oct 2013 → 13 Apr 2014Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects
Publications
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- Listen to the radio and go on field trips : a study on farmers' attributes to opt for extension methods in Northwest Ethiopia(2024)
Authors: Yemane Asmelash Gebremariam, Joost Dessein, Beneberu Assefa Wondimagegnhu, Mark Breusers, Lutgart Lenaerts, Enyew Adgo, Steven Van Passel, Amare Sewnet Minale, Amaury Frankl
Pages: 3 - 29 - ‘We are not drug traffickers, we are Colombian peasants’ : the voices and history of cocaleros in the substitution programme of illicit crops in Colombia(2023)
Authors: Itayosara Rojas Herrera, Joost Dessein
- Exploring approaches to equal and effective participation of governance actors in trans-local city food networks(2023)
Authors: Amber Steyaert, Joost Dessein, Charlotte Prové
- Undoing the development army : a paradigm shift from Transfer of Technology to Agricultural Innovation System in Ethiopian extension(2022)
Authors: Yemane Asmelash Gebremariam, Joost Dessein, Beneberu Assefa Wondimagegnhu, Mark Breusers, Lutgart Lenaerts, Enyew Adgo, Steven Van Passel, Amare Sewnet Minale, Jan Nyssen
Pages: 49 - 49 - Developers and farmers in rural Dogu’a Tembien(2019)Series: GeoGuide
Authors: Kaatje Segers, Joost Dessein, Jan Nyssen, Mitiku Haile, Jozef Deckers, Miro Jacob, Amaury Frankl
Pages: 505 - 517 - Hoe de korte keten opschalen? Op zoek naar partnerschappen tussen landbouwers en grootafnemers in Gent en omstreken(2017)
Authors: Joost Dessein, Maarten Crivits, Thomas Block
- Transitie in zicht?(2017)
Authors: Thomas Block, Erik Paredis, Frank Nevens, Vera Dua, Katrien Van Poeck, Michiel Dehaene, Joost Dessein, Maarten Crivits
Pages: 88 - 106 - When technology is more than instrumental : how ethical concerns in EU agriculture co-evolve with the development of GM crops(2017)
Authors: Linde Inghelbrecht, Gert Goeminne, Guido Van Huylenbroeck, Joost Dessein
Pages: 543 - 557 - Investigating cultural sustainability in urban agriculture: the case of Ghent, Belgium(2015)
Authors: Joost Dessein, Katriina Soini, Charlotte Prové, Michiel De Krom
Pages: 48 - 48 - Local food strategies as a stepping-stone in global sustainability: applying Hajer’s sustainability perspective to Ghent(2015)
Authors: Maarten Crivits, Charlotte Prové, Thomas Block, Joost Dessein, Vera Dua
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