Programme of 2nd Annual Conference

Programme of 2nd Annual Conference

Programme of 2nd Annual Conference

Hier finden Sie das ausführliche Programm für die 2. Netzwerktagung des AK Agri-Food Geographies.

Here you can find the detailed program for the 2nd network conference of the AK Agri-Food Geographies.

Thursday, 23 March 2023
TimeProgrammeLecture Hall
1pm- 1.30pmWelcome addresses
•  Prof. Dr. Claudia Bieling (Chair of Societal Transition &
Agriculture, University of Hohenheim)
•  Dr. Andrea Fadani (Foundation Fiat Panis)
Introduction to the Global Food Security Center, University of Hohenheim
Katharinensaal
1.30pm – 1.45pmIntroduction to the Working Group Agri-food Geographies, Who-is-whoKatharinensaal
1.45pm – 2.45pmKeynote
Prof. Dr. Damian Maye (University of Gloucestershire): “Food and power in the making: the double movement and new geographies of
food”
Katharinensaal
2.45pm – 3.15pmCoffee breakKatharinensaal
3.15pm – 3.45pmPresentation international guest speaker
Dr. Elena Lazos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma México): “Meat power in Mexico: Unequal vulnerabilities and uncertainties between the transnational industrial producers and the small cattle raisers of
a tropical region”
Katharinensaal
3.45pm – 4.45pmIntroductory Presentations (I)
•  Dr. Andrea Fadani (Fiat Panis): “The incomplete integration of coffee into Cameroon’s agriculture, between German colonial heritage and expectations from the world market“
•  Dr. Timothy G. Williams (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): “Who
exercises power in European agri-food systems? A meta-study of the
diversity of actors and network configurations” (digital)
Katharinensaal
4.45pm – 5pmCoffee breakKatharinensaal
5pm – 6pmIntroductory Presentations (II)
•  Stefan Ortiz-Przychodzka (Leuphana University of Lüneburg): “Bees-human relations towards diverse economies in the Bolivian Chiquitania dry forest”
•  Dr. Michael Spies (HNE Eberswalde): “Local seed systems and
global China: Insights from Pakistan and Tajikistan” (digital)
Katharinensaal
From 6pmSchnippeldisco (chopping disco against food waste) organized by the student initiative FRESHTMS
Friday, 24 March 2023
TimeHS 34, analogueHS 36, digital
9am – 10.30amSession 1: Global-Local Value Chains (I)

•  Dr. Xiomara F. Quiñones-Ruiz (BOKU Vienna): “Brokerage processes of social relations and knowledge across global value chains for coffee – The case of Colombian and European coffee players”
•  Gustavo Cruz (SOAS, University of London): “Cacao’s identity displacement through its commodification, an overview comparison with coffee”
•  Carola Wilhelm/Prof. Dr. Tobias Chilla (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg): “The regional dimension in Global Production Networks (GPN) – mapping value creation and
governance of the Bavarian beer sector”
Session 2: Global-Local Value Chains (II)

•  Dr. Henryk Alff (HNE Eberswalde): “A trajectory towards farmer empowerment? Soybean cultivation in post-Soviet
Kazakhstan“
•  Miriam Klein (RWTH Aachen): „Systemic lock-in and resistance to change in the
German meat system”
• Danko Simić/Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ermann (University of Graz): “What’s for dinner? On power relations in the meat industry and how we research them“
10.30am – 11amCoffe break, HS 35
11am – 12.30pmSession 3: Power relations in agricultural production
•  Dr. Gideon Tups (University of Cologne): “Supplying lead firms, intangible assets and power in agro-industrial value chains: Explaining governance from the supply- side of the fertilizer chain”
 •  Kushala Nuwanthi/Akanksha Singh/Dr. Christine Bosch/Prof. Dr. Regina Birner (University of Hohenheim): “How do gender–caste intersectionalities influence the involvement of communities in organic cotton farming?”
Karlotta Koch (University of Hohenheim): „Participation and power in the organic association certification process”
Session 4: Diverse knowledge(s), actors and powerful networks
•  Dr. Bosco Bwambale (Mountains of the
Moon University): “Eri birya amalhambo [‘cleansing of ridges’]: The importance of indigenous farming systems for sustainable livelihoods and climate resilience in the
Rwenzori area, Uganda”
•  Alejandra Guzmán Luna (Universidad Veracruzana, México): “How to play with fire: farmers‘ wanderings in the global coffee chain”
•  Joshua Oduyero/Christiana Olufunmilayo Ojo/ Mary Oluwagbemisola Adetula (Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria): “Expanding the narratives for bargaining, unequal power relations in the Nigerian policy formulation and implementation of Nigerian agricultural policies: the roles of farmer’s associations and civic
organizations”
12.30pm – 1pmBrown Bag Lunch, HS 35
1pm – 3pmCampus tour: Alternative food places on Hohenheim Campus (Anna Struth)Meeting place: Entrance HS 35
HS 34, analogueHS 36, digital
3pm – 4.30pmSession 5: Conceptual approaches to frame power relations in agri-food systems
•  Marie Reusch (University of Gießen)/ Carla Wember (University of Kassel): “Interpretive power in ecological
and socially alternative agriculture – contesting and negotiating völkisch ideology”
•  Nora Katharina Faltmann/Dr. Rike Stotten (Universität Innsbruck): “Trifurcation and incorporation in the corporate food regime in Switzerland”
•  Dr. Meike Brückner (HU Berlin)/ Dr. Birgit Hoinle (University of Hohenheim): “Culinary justice – caring for food and
meal cultures in private and public spaces”
Session 6: Policy analysis of agricultural and food policies: Negotiations, regulations and power struggles
•  Nikola Blaschke (University of Hohenheim): “The divide in agricultural politics – a look at the counterdiscourse of La Via Campesina”
•  İpek Ronahi Gündüz/Pınar Ertör-Akyazı (Boğaziçi University, Turkey): “The role of agroecology and ecological production in urban food policies: The cases of Nilüfer and Seferihisar Municipalities in Turkey”
•  Ronja Herzberg (Thünen Institute of Market Analysis): “Market power and food loss at the producer–retailer interface of fruit and vegetable supply chains in
Germany”
4.30 – 5pmCoffee break, HS 35
5pm – 6pmSession 7: Policy analysis of agricultural and food policies: Negotiations, regulations and power struggles (II)
•  Vida Mantey (University of Hohenheim): “Understanding the roles, interactions and power relations of actors in smallholder carbon projects; insights from Kenya”
•  Prof. Dr. Tim Dorlach (University of
Bayreuth)/Dr. Sandya Gunasekara (University of Queensland): “Pesticide politics in the Global South: The turbulent regulation of glyphosate and organic agriculture in Sri Lanka”
6pm – 7pmPoster Session – Pitches and discussions, HS 35
•  Anna Struth (University of Hohenheim): “Exploring existing and possible food utopias in and around universities”
•  Franziska Mohr (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL): “Agricultural trajectories in post-socialist countries – a perspective based on ‘a theory of access’”
•  Anja Roßmanith/Caroline Brinck/Luisa Raithel/Dr. Gerhard Rainer/Prof. Dr. Hans- Martin Zademach (Katholische Universität Eichstätt): “Food rescue in Alternative Food Networks using the example of the B2C marketplace Too Good To Go: A contribution to the dialogue between practice theory and diverse economies”
•  Francisco Hidalgo (University of Hohenheim): “Farmers as agents and techno-governed citizens. Examining the politics of digital agriculture“
•  Matheus Dezidéro Busca (University of Campinas, Brazil/Innsbruck): “Socio- environmental and economic impacts of globalized soy agribusiness in the Cerrado of Centre-North Brazil” (digital)
•  Arezou Babajani (University of Hohenheim): “Barriers to formal certification and empowerment of organically producing small-scale farmers in developing countries”
•  Dr. Athena Birkenberg/Anna Grigoreva/Marianne Schapperer/Anika Winter/ Prof. Dr. Regina Birner (University of Hohenheim): “Set Cascara free! A story of power and regulation in introducing an innovative novel food by-product of coffee”
•  Ángela Navarrete-Cruz (University of Hohenheim): “Can sustainability certification
trigger cooperation between exporters and local players in Agricultural Value Chains? The case of the coffee sector in Colombia” (digital)
From 7pmGet-together: Dinner at Café Denkbar (Campus)
Saturday, 25 March 2023
TimeHS 34, analogueHS 35, digital
9am – 10.30amSession 8: Methods for researching and teaching power relations in agri-food systems
•  Dr. Christine Bosch (University of Hohenheim): “Mapping actors, networks and influence: a review of the Net-Map tool”
•  Sarah Graf (University of Hohenheim): “Class structures as social networks: How social network analysis can inform research on rural class relations”
•  Dr. Jutta Kister/Dr. Robert Hafner
(University of Innsbruck): „’Beyond supermarkets!’ Integrating teaching into research and research into teaching – a practical approach”
Session 9: Perspectives on food system transformations
•  Anna-Katharina Demes/Bärbel Mohr (University of Gießen): “Network analyses and food system transformations”
•  Louisa Prause (HU Berlin): “Re-centering labor and technology in the debates on corporate power and food system
transformations”
•  Susanna Raab/Hannah Müller (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar): “Negotiating the social right to food in the local welfare regime”
10.30am – 11amCoffee breakHS 35
TimeProgrammeLecture hall
11am – 11.30amPresentation international guest speaker: Dr. Alexander Panez (University of Bio-Bio, Chile)/Dr. Ilka Roose (HNE Eberswalde: “Food systems and constitutional changes in Latin America: The agrarian disputes within the constitutional convention in Chile”Katharinensaal
11.30am – 12.30amKeynote
Prof. Dr. Marit Rosol (Würzburg University): “Power and powerlessness in the agri-food system – Dilemmas and strategic orientations for food movements”
Katharinensaal
12.30am – 1pmFinal discussion, feedback & farewellKatharinensaal