The Food and Agricultural History Network is a network for (especially young) researchers in this field, who present and discuss their own work as well as that from other scholars and new books. The network is an initiative by Amber Striekwold (UU) and Anna Teijeiro (VU).
Food and Agricultural History Network website – fahnn.nl
Steps have been made by Anna Teijeiro and Amber Striekwold in creating a website for the Food and Agricultural History Network. The goal of this website is visibility and to have a base for our network. One of its goals is to have a space where people (journalists, academics et cetera) can find who are working on Food and Agricultural History in the Netherlands.
From 6 Oktober onwards the website is live. Click here.
Program 2025-2026
This year the nework started on October 6th 2025 with a discussion on the book by Niek Koning Food Security, Agricultural Policies and Economic Growth. Long-term Dynamics in the Past, Present and Future. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. The book is one of the new modern classics.
Niek Koning will be present himself and introduce his book. To get an impression from the book, you may read the following review: https://antonschuurman.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/RHA76_WEB_resenasNiekKoning.pdf.
The next meeting will be November 10th in Utrecht: Unequal global economic power relations (and how to bridge these gaps) by Prof. dr. Peter van Dam and dr. Grace Leksana
Website voedselgeschiedenis.nl
Parallel to the FAHN website, Amber Striekwolda and Jon Verriet will revitalize the website www.voedselgeschiedenis.nl. This website is currently still in development but will contain information about Dutch Food and Agricultural History in the form of short blogs.
We hope that we can make use of the knowledge in this network to fill the website with interesting stories about Dutch Food and Agricultural History! The website is meant to inform students, journalists and other people who might be interested in Dutch Food and Agricultural History.
Conferences / symposia
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