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Zelflerende systemen

De bedrijfsvoering in de landbouw moet zich steeds innoveren om aan te sluiten bij eisen aan producten en effecten op milieu. Kennis en gegevens van bedrijfsvoering zal bij die innovatie gebruikt moeten worden. Op de korte termijn zal een verbeterde overdracht van bestaande generieke kennishierbij een belangrijke rol spelen, omdat veel telers nog niet alle kennis en ervaringen goed gebruiken voor verbetering van kwaliteit, opbrengst en rendement. Op de langere termijn zal ook beter gebruikgemaakt moeten worden van situatiespecifieke gegevens. Hierbij zal aangesloten moeten worden bij ontwikkelingen in de Informatie en Communicatie Technologie (ICT), zoals toegepast in zelflerendesystemen. Dergelijke systemen passen gegevens en kennisregels toe om teeltadvies te genereren. Op basis van de geregistreerde resultaten die met gerealiseerd teelt management bereikt worden, wordendaarna de gegevens en kennisregels aangepast, waarmee in het volgende seizoen een nieuw advies wordt gegenereerd.Dit rapport beschrijft een aantal activiteiten die zijn verricht in het kader van het AgroBiokon project met als oogmerk om:1. te inventariseren wat voor benaderingen er nu al zijn t.a.v. al dan niet geautomatiseerde systemen voor kennisoverdracht (hoofdstukken 4 en 5)2. te inventariseren wat voor teeltregistratie nodig is voor zelflerende systemen (hoofdstuk 6)3. te bekijken welke generieke gegevensbestanden er zijn om te gebruiken als basis voor zelflerendesystemen (hoofdstuk 7)4. een aantal methoden te vergelijken die de basis kunnen vormen voor zelflerende systemen(hoofdstuk 8)5. voorbeelden te geven van toepassing van die methoden in bestaande situaties (hoofdstukken 9en 13)6. inzichten van partners te inventariseren over de mogelijkheden van nieuwe systemen voorteeltinnovatie (hoofdstuk 10)7. een beschrijving te geven van een project om innovatie in de (zetmeel) aardappelproductie testimuleren (hoofdstuk

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De wijsheid van een tijdperk

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Agroforestry development in the Netherlands

Agroforestry in the Netherlands is taking a momentum, the professional practice is slowly but increasingly adopting agroforestry as an agricultural practice and clear government efforts are acknowledging the importance of agroforestry asa climate adaptive option that aligns with national goals. However, farmers are still facing a wide variety of challenges which also lie on policy issues. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the current bottlenecks and barriers that farmers perceive and experience in the implementation of agroforestry in the Netherlands. This review has been carried out building upon the results of an online survey where perceived bottlenecks were identified (total N=3,500 farmers and other stakeholders). Based on the aforementioned results the current relevant EC’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) normative provisions andthe Dutch national rules and regulations that promote agroforestry are referred. We also identify the potential bottlenecks that the transition to the new CAP imposes to the implementation of agroforestry. Main bottlenecks fell under three categories, i.e. issues about technical knowledge, business models, and rules and regulations. Main subjects that were raised under the rules and regulations category were unclarity on current provisions at EU and national level (e.g. CAP), registration of crops under agroforestry and related subsidies, governance at national and provincial level. Thereafter the EC’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) normative provisions and the Dutch national rules and regulations that are acting as barriers were linked to these raised subjects. Various CAP provisions concur with previous identified policy issues that are shared with other EU member states, however many require adaptations of rules and regulations at the national, provincial and municipality level and a coordinated governance among these levels.

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Is Overtourism overused? Understanding the impact of tourism in a city context

In less than two years, the concept of overtourism has come to prominence as one of the most discussed issues with regards to tourism in popular media and, increasingly, academia. In spite of its popularity, the term is still not clearly delineated and remains open to multiple interpretations. The current paper aims to provide more clarity with regard to what overtourism entails by placing the concept in a historical context and presenting results from a qualitative investigation among 80 stakeholders in 13 European cities. Results highlight that overtourism describes an issue that is multidimensional and complex. Not only are the issues caused by tourism and nontourism stakeholders, but they should also be viewed in the context of wider societal and city developments. The article concludes by arguing that while the debate on overtourism has drawn attention again to the old problem of managing negative tourism impacts, it is not well conceptualized. Seven overtourism myths are identified that may inhibit a well-rounded understanding of the concept. To further a contextualized understanding of overtourism, the paper calls for researchers from other disciplines to engage with the topic to come to new insights.

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How I learned to appreciate our tame social scientist

Designing solutions for complex behaviour change processes can be greatly aided by integrating insights from the behavioural sciences into design practice. However, this integration is hampered by the relative inaccessibility of behavioral scientific knowledge. Working in a multidisciplinary of design researchers and behavioural scientists may bridge the gap between the two fields. This paper shares our experiences in working as such a multidisciplinary group on a large project, amongst others consisting of the design of interventions for workplace safety. Our cooperation was fruitful, both for design researchers – being able to better structure the messiness of the design process –, behavioural scientists – gaining in ecological validity of their methods –, and commissioners – increased trust in potential outcomes of the design process. However, difficulties preventing synergy also transpired.

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Practices and challenges of growth monitoring and promotion in Ethiopia

The use of growth monitoring and promotion (GMP) has become widespread. It is a potential contributor towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals of halving hunger and reducing child mortality by two-thirds within 2015. Yet, GMP appears to be a prerequisite for good child health but several studies have shown that there is a discrepancy between the purpose and the practice of GMP. The high prevalence of malnutrition in many developing countries seems to confirm this fact. A descriptive qualitative study was carried out from April to September 2011. Focus group discussions and in-depth interviews were conducted amongst mothers and health workers. Data were analyzed using a qualitative content analysis technique, with the support of ATLAS.ti 5.0 software. The results suggest that most mothers were aware of the need for regular weight monitoring while health workers also seemed to be well-aware and to practise GMP according to the international guidelines. However, there was a deficit in maternal knowledge with regard to child-feeding and a lack of basic resources to keep and/or to buy healthful and nutritionally-rich food. Furthermore, the role of the husband was not always supportive of proper child-feeding. In general, GMP is unlikely to succeed if mothers lack awareness of proper child-feeding practices, and if they are not supported by their husbands.

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Practices and challenges of growth monitoring and promotion in Ethiopia

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The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands

Based on the results of two research projects from the Netherlands, this paper explores how street oriented persons adapt and use digital technologies by focusing on the changing commission of instrumental, economically motivated, street crime. Our findings show how social media are used by street offenders to facilitate or improve parts of the crime script of already existing criminal activities but also how street offenders are engaging in criminal activities not typically associated with the street, like phishing and fraud. Taken together, this paper documents how technology has permeated street life and contributed to the ‘hybridization’ of street offending in the Netherlands—i.e. offending that takes place in person and online, often at the same time.

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Multimodal narrative as an instrument for social change

This article provides a description of the emergence of the Spanish ‘Occupy’ movement, Democracia real ya. The aim is to analyse the innovative discursive features of this movement and to connect this analysis to what we consider the innovative potential of the critical sciences. The movement is the result of a spontaneous uprising that appeared on the main squares of Madrid and Barcelona on 15 May 2011 and then spread to other Spanish cities. This date gave it its name: 15M. While the struggle for democracy in Spain is certainly not new, the 15M group shows a series of innovative features. These include the emphasis on peaceful struggle and the imaginary of a new democracy or worldview, transmitted through innovative placards and slogans designed by Spanish citizens. We consider these innovative not only due to their creativity, but also because of their use as a form of civil action. Our argument is that these placards both functioned as a sign of protest and, in combination with the demonstrations and the general dynamics of 15M, helped to reframe the population’s understanding of the crisis and rearticulate the identity of the citizens from victims to agents. In order to analyse the multimodal character of this struggle, we developed an interdisciplinary methodology, which combines socio-cognitive approaches that consider ideological proposals as socio-cognitive constructs (i.e. the notion of narrative or cognitive frame), and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in the analysis of discourses related to processes of social imagination and transformation. The socio-constructivist perspective is used to consider these discourses in relation to their actors, particular contexts and actions. The use of CDA, which included a careful rhetoric analysis, helped to analyse the process of deconstruction, transformation and reconstruction that 15M uses to maintain its struggle. The narrative analysis and the discursive theoretical concept of articulation helped to methodologically show aspects of the process of change alluded to above. This change was both in terms of cognition and in the modification of identity that turned a large part of the Spanish population from victims to indignados and to the neologism indignadanos, which is a composition of indignado and ciudadano (citizen).

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Is Overtourism overused? Understanding the impact of tourism in a city context

How I learned to appreciate our tame social scientist

Practices and challenges of growth monitoring and promotion in Ethiopia

The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands

Multimodal narrative as an instrument for social change

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De wijsheid van een tijdperk

Agroforestry development in the Netherlands

Is Overtourism overused? Understanding the impact of tourism in a city context

How I learned to appreciate our tame social scientist

Practices and challenges of growth monitoring and promotion in Ethiopia

The Hybridization of Street Offending in the Netherlands

Multimodal narrative as an instrument for social change