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Researcher
Joost Dessein
- Keywords (Ghent University):political ecology, food policy, urban food system, rural sociology
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Food sciences and (bio)technology not elsewhere classified, Urban, rural and regional economics, Development studies, Sociology of development
Affiliations
- Social Sciences
Responsible
From1 Jan 2019 → 31 Dec 2019 - Department of Agricultural Economics (Department)
Member
From1 Jan 2018 → Today - Rural Development
Responsible
From1 Jan 2012 → 31 Dec 2018 - Department of Agricultural economics (Department)
Member
From1 Oct 2009 → 31 Dec 2017 - Transition
Responsible
From1 Jan 2007 → 31 Dec 2011
Projects
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- Participatory Film Project 'A joint look at Food Aid'From1 Jan 2025 → TodayFunding: BOF - various
- Agroecology as a countermovement to neoliberal expansion: a comparative case study between the Pampa-region and the northwest in ArgentinaFrom1 Nov 2024 → 31 Oct 2025Funding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Assessing the socio-hydrological resilience of farmer-led irrigation development in semi-arid Africa (FLID-AFRICA)From1 Oct 2024 → 31 Aug 2025Funding: FWO senior postdoctoral fellowship
- Analysis of the financial flows towards Flemish agricultureFrom1 Apr 2024 → 31 Oct 2025Funding: Private funding of national origin - undefined
- Operationalising Food Democracy and Food Sovereignty in local contextFrom1 Jan 2024 → TodayFunding: BOF - projects
- 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 → 31 Aug 2024Funding: 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 → 31 Oct 2024Funding: FWO fellowships
Publications
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See also Joost Dessein for publications of Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Here below the publications of Ghent University.
- Pluralising knowledge in agricultural development : the case for revitalising indigenous and local knowledges in Ghana(2025)Pages: 206 p.
- Urban food policy councils as politicized spaces : the case of Arusha, Tanzania(2025)Published in: FOOD POLICYISSN: 1873-5657Volume: 131
- Exploring the contribution of public policies to the scaling up of agroecology in Peru(2025)Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOODISSN: 2524-1982Issue: 2Volume: 31Pages: 63 - 90
- Knowledge on agroecology disseminated by the FAO : assessment from a human-nature relationship perspective(2025)Published in: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOODISSN: 2524-1982Issue: 1Volume: 31Pages: 15 - 52
- Science as a territory in dispute: an analysis of power and paradigms in the conceptualization of agroecology(2025)Published in: AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUESISSN: 1572-8366Issue: 3Volume: 42Pages: 1757 - 1771
- Undoing the development army : a paradigm shift from transfer of technology to agricultural innovation system in Ethiopian extension(2025)Published in: ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITYISSN: 1573-2975Issue: 3Volume: 27Pages: 6303 - 6329
- 'The people of Techiman eat Teporo' : migrant farming and epistemic pluralism in Forikrom, Ghana(2025)Published in: AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUESISSN: 1572-8366Issue: 3Volume: 42Pages: 1789 - 1804
- A geography of agrarian structures in Argentina : productive models, socioenvironmental impacts and neodevelopmentalism(2025)Published in: JOURNAL OF LATIN AMERICAN GEOGRAPHYISSN: 1548-5811Issue: 1Volume: 24Pages: 77 - 111
- Water governance in irrigated farming through the social-ecological systems framework : an empirical case in Ethiopia(2024)Pages: 330 - 334
- The worry of the next meal : food insecurity experiences of street-connected children in Ethiopia(2024)Published in: SSM-QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN HEALTHISSN: 2667-3215Volume: 6