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Jan-Eelco Jansma
Dr Ir Jan-Eelco Jansma is action-researcher city-region food systems at the Plant Sciences Group of Wageningen University & Research (NL). He holds a BSc and MSc in Agronomics, and a PhD in social sciences and planning. His ambition is to improve the balance between agriculture and societal needs. Over the past 25 years, he has studied the different perspectives of urban food systems, locally, nationally, and in the context of the EU, with a key focus on policy, planning and integration of urban and peri-urban agriculture.
Professional Affiliations :
2005-present Senior Scientist Urban City-region Systems, Wageningen University & Research (NL)
2016-present Senior Scientist, Flevo Campus institute on urban food issues, Almere (NL)
2015-present Board member, AESOP – Sustainable food planning group
Recent publications: Jansma, J.E., E.J. Veen and D. Muller (2024). Beyond urban farm and community garden: a new typology of urban and peri-urban agriculture in Europe. Urban agriculture and regional food systems Volume 9 (1). https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/uar2.20056 Jansma, J.E. and S.C.O. Wertheim-Heck (2023). A city of gardeners: What happens when policy, planning, and populace co-create the food production of a novel peri-urban area? Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science (51) 3. https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083231193802 Jansma, J.E. and S.C.O. Wertheim-Heck (2022). Feeding the city: A social practice perspective on planning for agriculture in peri-urban Oosterwold, Almere, the Netherlands. Land Use Policy 2022-06 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106104 Jansma, J.E. and S.C.O. Wertheim-Heck (2021). Thoughts for Urban Food: a social practice perspective on urban planning for agriculture in Almere, Netherlands. Landscape and urban planning Volume (206). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103976 Brons, A., K. van der Gaast, H. Awuh, J.E. Jansma, C. Segreto, and S.C.O. Wertheim-Heck (2022). A tale of two labs: Rethinking urban living labs for advancing citizen engagement in food system transformations. Cities 2022-04 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2021.103552 Dijk, van, W., Jansma J.E., Broeze J. and Groot J. (2022). Regional resourcefulness for food systems: the case of phosphorus in the metropolitan region of Amsterdam. In: The symbiotic city: Voices of nature in urban transformations, Stuiver, M. (Ed). Wageningen Academic Press, Wageningen https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-935-0_8 Gaast, van der, K, J.E. Jansma and S.C.O. Wertheim-Heck (2023). Between ambitions and actions: how citizens navigate the entrepreneurial process of co-producing sustainable urban food futures. Agriculture and Human Values Volume 40, pages 1287–1302 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10460-023-10425-7 Veen, E.J., H. Dagevos, and J.E. Jansma (2020). Pragmatic Prosumption: Searching for Food Prosumers in the Netherlands. Sociologia Ruralis (2021): 255-277 https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12323