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Plan-And-Play in the Polder : = Exploring the Lived Futures of Sustainable Food Entrepreneurship in Flevoland.

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Author:	Van der Gaast, Koen.
Description:	1 online resource (185 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: B.
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Subject:	Agriculture. -
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ISBN:	9798380572767

Plan-And-Play in the Polder : = Exploring the Lived Futures of Sustainable Food Entrepreneurship in Flevoland.
Van der Gaast, Koen.

Plan-And-Play in the Polder :Exploring the Lived Futures of Sustainable Food Entrepreneurship in Flevoland. - 1 online resource (185 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Wageningen University and Research, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

The current food system causes problems such as biodiversity loss, water shortages, pollution and desertification that will become more severe over time. Furthermore, the scientific and societal debate on how a sustainable future of the food system should look like is getting more and more contested.. Yet, at the same time, there are several examples of actors and organisations that are already working towards more sustainable food futures despite all the difficulties that lie ahead. A case in point is food entrepreneurship, and its role within the ongoing food system transformation. So far, the scientific understanding of food entrepreneurship is mostly restricted to the individual agency of entrepreneurs as economic actors that exploit the new opportunities the market for sustainable food affords. Instead, in this thesis I argue the need for a new perspective: that of sustainable food entrepreneurship.In this perspective, entrepreneurship is considered a social process of change itself that is driven by imagined futures. Imagined futures drive the daily life of entrepreneurs, which connect them to a wide range of human and non-human actors within a larger process of change. This process of change in turn shapes the future of food continually over time. In this understanding, the sustainable future of food is not a static state that can be achieved over time. It is a lived entity that is constantly evolving and changing. Such a perspective helps to understand more about what role entrepreneurship plays in the ongoing food system transformation. In other words, this thesis sets out to answer the following research question: How are imagined futures lived out in sustainable food entrepreneurship and how does this shape the ongoing transformation of the food system?This study is conducted in the context of food entrepreneurship in Flevoland, the Netherlands. This region has a history of food production, as it was reclaimed from the sea to function as agricultural land. In a later stage, cities emerged in this region that currently are positioning themselves as green growing cities: cities that want to stimulate more sustainable and healthy food. The lived futures of sustainable food entrepreneurship in Flevoland are studied through three different theoretical lenses in four different empirical sites. These lenses and sites are thoroughly introduced in the introduction of this thesis (Chapter 1). The process lens helps to understand more about the ongoing entrepreneurial process itself, and how imagined futures are shaping up within this process. This is accomplished by conceptualising the entrepreneurial process based on the insights of practical and scientific expertise (in Chapter 2), and by exploring a specific entrepreneurial process in Almere Oosterwold through action research and futuring (in Chapter 5). The practice lens was used to explore engagement with near and distant futures in changing entrepreneurial practices during the disruption as caused by covid-19 (Chapter 3). Lastly, the discourse lens was used to study how futures of food are discursively constructed through food entrepreneurship. This was done through a critical discourse analysis of websites of food enterprises (Chapter 4).In Chapter 2, the process of sustainable food entrepreneurship was mapped out through the construction of a conceptual framework. The framework was made by scrutinising expertise on entrepreneurship, both in the literature and with experts in Flevoland that were interviewed. This framework, the Sustainable Food Entrepreneurship Framework (SFEF), departs from the notion of uncertainty.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798380572767Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Agriculture.
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