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  • Thiemann, Louis (2022), The Third Class: Artisans of the world, unite?, Erasmus University/International Institute of Social Studies, Rotterdam/The Hague (promotoren/supervisors: Max Spoor and Jan Douwe van der Ploeg).

  • Yu, Tian. (2019), Energy and labour use on farms: Case studies from the Netherlands and China., Ph.D. thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen.

  • Zhang, Jin (08-04-2019), The State, Capital and Peasantry in the Agrarian Transition of China: the case of Guangxi sugar cane prodution, PhD thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen [supervisors: J.D. van der Ploeg and Wu Huifang]

  • Lucas, Veronique (29-06-2018), L’agriculture en commun : Gagner en autonomie grâce à la coopération de proximité. Expériences d’agriculteurs en Cuma à l’ère de l’agroécologie. PhD Thesis, Université d’Angers, Angers [supervision: J.D. van der Ploeg and P. Gasselin]

  • Smit, Meino (11 september 2018), De duurzaamheid van de Nederlandse landbouw: 1950-2015-2040 , Ph.D. these, Wageningen Universiteit, Wageningen [promotor: J.D. van der Ploeg]

  • Fadel, Ndiame (03-11-2017), Planed Development Interventions and Contested Development in the Casamance Region, Senegal: An Enquiry into the ongoing struggles for Autonomy and Progress by the Casamance Peasantry, Ph.D. thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen [supervision: P. Hebinck and J.D. van der Ploeg].

  • Bossenbroek, Lisa (20-09-2016), Behind the veil of agricultural modernization: gendered dynamics of rural change in the Saïss, Morocco PhD. Thesis, Wageningen University, Wageningen supervisors: J.D. van der Ploeg and M. Zwarteveen

  • Henk Oostindie (20-3-2015), Family Farming Futures. Agrarian pathways to multifunctionality: flows of resistance, redesign and resilience.
    Supervisor: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

  • Ignacio Lopez Moreno (1-7-2014), Labelling the origin of food products: towards sustainable territoral development?,
    Supervisor: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

  • Xiangdan Meng (14-1-1014), Feminization of Agricultural Production in Rural China: A Sociological Analysis,
    Supervisors: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Huifang Wu

  • Yves van Leijnseele (5-11-2013), Landscapes of Deracialization: Power, Brokerage and Place-Making on a South African Frontier,
    Supervisors: Jan Douwe van der Ploeg and Paul Hebinck

  • Paredes, M. (Myriam) (2010-12-06), Peasants, potatoes and pesticides : heterogeneity in the context of agricultural modernization in the Highland Andes of Ecuador , PhD gthesis Wagenbingen University, Wageningen [supervisors: J.D. van der Ploeg, P. Hebicnk and D.C. Cole]

  • Hurtado Paz y Paz, M. (Margarita), 10-06-2010, Péten: La ultima frontera? La construcción social de una región. Supervisors: Prof. dr. ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and Dr. A. Arce.

  • Visser, J. (Jozef), 13-04-2010, Down to earth; a historical-sociological analysis of the rise and fall of 'industrial' agriculture and of the prospects for the re-rooting of agriculture from the factory to the local farmer and ecology. Supervisors: Prof. dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and Prof. dr. B. Goudzwaard

  • Michele Nori (2010), MILKING DRYLANDS, Gender networks, pastoral markets and food security in stateless Somalia.

  • Wytze J. Nauta (2009), Selective Breeding in Organic Dairy Production

  • Gilvonio Pérez, J.M. (2009), Construccioń social de comuninad y migración internacional en Usibamba : un estudio sobre el impacto de los procesos de globalización en los Andes centrales del Perú [PhD thesis]

  • Boelens, R. (Rutgerd), 2008-04-11, The rules of the game and the game of the rules: normalization and resistance in Andean water control, Wageningen, Wageningen University, Supervisors: prof. dr. ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and prof. H. Achterhuis

  • Swagemakers, P. (Paul) (2008 -04-16), Ecologisch kapitaal: over het belang van aanpassingsvermogen, flexibiliteit en oordeelkundigheid, Ph.D., Wageningen University, Wageningen , Supervisor: prof. dr. ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Domínguez García, M.D. (Lola), 2007-11-30;
    The way you do, it matters. A case study: farming economically in Galician dairy agroecosystems in the context of a cooperative Wageningen: Wageningen University, 194 pp.
    Supervisors: prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and dr. X.S. Fernández (University of Vigo)

  • Reijs, J. (Joan), 2007-10-30;
    Improving slurry by diet adjustments: a novelty to reduce N losses from grassland based dairy farms
    Wageningen: Wageningen University, 203 pp.
    Supervisors: prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and dr.ir. J. Dijkstra

  • Otsuki, K. (Kei), 2007-09-20;
    Paradise in a Brazil Nut Cemetery. Sustainability Discourses and Social Action in Pará, the Brazilian Amazon Wageningen: Wageningen University, 255 pp.
    Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and dr. A.M.G. Arce

  • Boonstra, W.J. (Wijnand), 2006-10-30; Polder Limits. A Case Study of Value-Conflicts on Dutch Rural Land Use Wageningen: Wageningen University, 163 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and prof.dr.ir. A. van den Brink

  • Milone, P. (Pierluigi), 2004-12-20 Agricoltura in transizione: la forza dei piccoli passi. Un' analisi neo-istituzionale delle innovazioni contadine [ ... ] Wageningen: Wageningen University, 291 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Norder, L.A.C. (Luiz Antonio Cabello), 2004-05-03; Políticas de Assentamento e Localidade. Os desafios da reconstituiçao do trabalho rural no Brasil [ ... ] Wageningen: Wageningen University, 313 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Ziel, T. (Tjirk) van der, 2003-11-05; Verzet en verlangen. De constructie van nieuwe ruraliteiten rond de mkz-crisis en de trek naar het platteland Wageningen: Wageningen University, 424 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Commandeur, M.A.M. (Monica), 2003-06-13; Styles of Pig Farming. A Techno-Sociological Inquiry of Processes and Constructions in Twente and The Achterhoek Wageningen: Wageningen University, 400 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and prof.dr.ir. M.W.A. Verstegen

  • Dries, A.L.J. (Adri) van den, 2002-10-15 The Art of Irrigation. The Development, Stagnation and Redesign of Farmer-Managed Irrigation Systems in Northern Portugal Wageningen: Wageningen University, 353 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Gerritsen, P.R.W. (Peter), 2002-09-25; Diversity at Stake. A farmers' perspective on biodiversity and conservation in western Mexico Wageningen: Wageningen University, 286 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and dr.ir. K.F. Wiersum

  • Bock, B.B. (Bettina), 2002-04-26; Tegelijkertijd en tussendoor; gender, plattelandsontwikkeling en interactief beleid
    [Simultaneously and in between; gender, rural development and interactive policy-making] Wageningen: Wageningen University, 206 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg (WU) and prof.dr. J. van Doorne-Huiskes (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

  • Burg, J.A.C. van , 2001-09-21 Westerse cultuur uit balans: naar een nieuw evenwicht in de 21e eeuw
    [...] ...: ..., 400 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg (WU) and prof.dr. J. Verstraeten

  • Ventura, F. (Flaminia), 2001-05-11 Organizzarsi per Sopravvivere. Un'analisi Neo-istituzionale dello Sviluppo Endogeno nell'Agricoltura Umbra
    [The neo-institutional analysis fo meat producing districts] Wageningen: Wageningen University, 264 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Miele, M. (Mara), 2001-02-09 Creating Sustainability: The Social Construction of the Market for Organic Products Wageningen: WU/CERES, Wageningen Studies on Heterogeneity and Relocalisation 3, 176 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg (WU) and prof.dr. L. Iacoponi (University of Pisa)

  • Hees, Eric, 2000-11-10 Trekkers naast de trap, een zoektocht naar de dynamiek in de relatie tussen boer en overheid
    [...New policy arrangements in Dutch agriculture] Wageningen: WU/Circle for Rural European Studies, Studies van Landbouw en Platteland 30, 181 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg (WU)

  • Roep, D. (Dirk), 2000-11-03; Vernieuwend werken: sporen van vermogen en onvermogen. Een socio-materiële studie over vernieuwing in de landbouw uitgewerkt voor de westelijke veenweidegebieden
    [Innovative work: tracks and traces of capacity and incapacity. A socio-material study on innovation in agriculture elaborated in depth for the western peatland region in the Netherlands] Wageningen: WU/Circle for Rural European Studies, Studies van Landbouw en Platteland 28, 201 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Roest, K. (Kees) de, 2000-11-03 The production of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese : the force of an artisanal system in an industrialised world Wageningen: WU, 279 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg (WU) and prof.dr. A. Picchi (University of Abruzzo)

  • Meulen, H.S. (Hielke) van der, 2000-11-01; Circuits in de Landbouwvoedselketen; verscheidenheid en samenhang in de productie en vermarkting van rundvlees in Midden-Italië
    [Circuits in the Agro-food Chain; diversity and coherence in the production and marketing of beef in Central Italy] Wageningen: WU/Circle for Rural European Studies, Studies van Landbouw en Platteland 29, 321 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Vaeren, Pierre van der, 2000-10-20 Perdidos en la selva. Un estudio del proceso de re-arraigo y de desarrollo local de la Comunidad-Cooperativa Unión Maya Itzá, formada por campesinos guatemaltecos, antiguos refugiados, reasentados en el Departamento de El Petén, Guatemala
    [Lost in the forest: A study of the reintegration, re-rooting, and endogenous development process of the communal co-operative Unión Maya Itzá, formed by Guatemalan peasants, former refugees in Mexico, resettled in the Department of Petén, Guatemala] Amsterdam: Thela Publishers, 376 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Remmers, G.G.A. (Gaston), 1998-02-20 Con cojones y maestria: un estudio sociologico-agronomico acerca del desarrollo rural endogeno y procesos de localizacion en la Sierra de la Contraviesa (Espana)
    [With balls and mastery: a sociological-agronomic study of endogenous rural development and localization processes in the Contraviesa Mountains (Spain)] Wageningen: WAU, Wageningen Studies on Heterogeneity and Relocalization 2, 380 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and prof.dr.ir. P.A.A. Oldeman

  • Broek, H.P. (Hans-Peter) van der, 1998-01-07 Labour, networks and lifestyles : survival and succession strategies of farm households in the Basque country
    Wageningen: WAU, 184 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr. N.E. Long and prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Wiskerke, J.S.C. (Han), 1997-11-14; Zeeuwse akkerbouw tussen verandering en continuïteit. Een sociologische studie naar diversiteit in landbouwbeoefening, technologieontwikkeling en plattelandsvernieuwing
    [Arable farming between change and continuity: A sociological study on diversity in farming, technology development and rural innovation] Wageningen: WAU/Circle for Rural European Studies, Studies van Landbouw en Platteland 25, 401 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Verhaar, C.H.A. , 1997-09-24 Achtkarspeler JWG-ers en in streekeigen kultuer: undersyk nei de ynfloed fan de streekeigen kultuer fan Achtkarspelen op it halden en dragen fan dielnimmers oan de JeugdWerkGarantie-wet
    [Getting unemployed youngsters to work] Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy, 230 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg (WAU) and dr. L.G. Jansma (Frisian Academy)

  • Bruin, R. (René) de, 1997-05-16 Dynamiek en duurzaamheid: beschouwingen over bedrijfsstijlen, bestuur en beleid
    [Dynamics and sustainability: Reflections on styles of farming, government and policy] Wageningen: WAU/Circle for Rural European Studies, Studies van Landbouw en Platteland 23, 229 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Vijverberg, A.J. , 1996-12-13 Glastuinbouw in ontwikkeling: beschouwingen over de verwetenschappelijking van de sector
    [Glasshouse horticulture in development: essays on the scientification of the sector] Delft: Eburon, 168 pp. Supervisor: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg

  • Horlings, I. (Ina), 1996 Duurzaam boeren met beleid. Innovatiegroepen in de Nederlandse landbouw
    [Sustainable farming and policy: innovative groups in Dutch agriculture] Wageningen: WAU/Circle for Rural European Studies, Studies van Landbouw en Platteland 20, 356 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg (WAU) and prof.dr. K. Bouwer (KUN, Nijmegen)

  • Bentum, M. van, 1995-06-20 Water, werk en waterwerken. De ontwikkeling van irrigatietechnologie in het stroomgebied van de Segura, Zuidoost-Spanje
    [Water, work and waterworks. The evolution of irrigation technology in the Segura River basin, South East Spain] Delft: Eburon, 257 pp. Supervisors: Prof.dr.ir. J.D. van der Ploeg and prof.dr.ir. L. Horst


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    Jan Douwe van der Ploeg
    Formerly Professor and Chair of Rural Sociology and Emeritus professor of Transition Studies at Wageningen University (WUR), the Netherlands and Adjunct Professor of Rural Sociology at the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) of China Agricultural University (CAU) in Beijing, China.

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