Niels Röling: Het oog op de buitenwereld
Niels Röling | 17 February 2025Mijn ervaring met zowel de mondiaal gerichte IAASTD (International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology), als het op de Afrikaanse landbouw gerichte CoS (‘Convergence of Sciences’ onderzoeksprogramma in Benin, Ghana en Mali...
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Negotiating the future of food and farming
Niels Röling | April 07, 2025The International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD) is working toward achieving consensus on ways to ensure global food security. In April, some of the world’s governments will decide whether to approve the...
▶Niels Röling
Niels Röling (1937) is Professor Emeritus of Innovation and Communication Studies at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He has co-supervised some 70 doctoral dissertations. One of his principle interests is agricultural innovation among subsistence farmers in West Africa, and the institutional and other higher system level conditions for it. He has been a scientific coordinator for the Convergence of Sciences (CoS) project in Benin and Ghana, and a five-year sequel that is to take place in Benin, Burkina, Ghana and Mali has been approved in principle by the Dutch Directorate General International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He is one of the voluntary authors and chapter editors of the International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD).