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Mon 5 Mar – Shell, seeds and saving the planet: rights and livelihoods in a global economy

Time: 19:00 Venue: FORUM building (Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen)        OtherWise and Friends of the Earth International proudly present an evening with lectures by three members of the Friends of the Earth executive board who are also representatives of very active organisations in their home country.  Shell and the impacts on the environment and [...]

Wed 29 Feb – Contemporary politics, indigenous people and environment in Bolivia

Time: 20:00 Venue: Forum building ‘Ricardo Calla, antropologist and former Minister of Peasant and Indigenous Affairs in Bolivia, has a long history of working with indigenous people in the Andes.  In Bolivia, indigenous people form a majority of the population and therefore, possess significant political power. However, economic power is in the hands of the [...]

Tue 28 Feb – Global Cafe on tour

Time: 20.00-22.30h Place: Forum, C221, C222, C226 and C229 Exile without end: voices from Kashmir and Palestinian refugees. An interactive Global Cafè, an evening to explore with our five senses the extreme situation in which these two population are living, existing, resisting.  An innovative Global Cafè in order to do not only inform yourself but [...]

Thur 23 Feb – Mindmapping and food

Time: 20.00-22.00h  Place: Leeuwenborch, room V72  Mindmapping is a practical method that has many different applications. In this workshop Lise and Wendy (both graduates from WUR) will introduce you to mindmapping and how you can use it to understand the way we conceptualize food. Interactive element: Create you own mindmap and discover the diversity in [...]

12th of January: I-Cafe

Help organise workshops at OtherWise – Date:  Thursday, January 12th, 17.30-18.30h. Place: Cafe Zaaier, Herenstraat 33.   The I stands for: interaction, but also for idea and innovative! Do you have ideas for future I-Workshops organised at OtherWise? Or would you like to help organise these workshops? Join us in the I-Cafe! This is a [...]

16th of January: Lectures from the field: Internship or thesis in Bangladesh!

Date: Monday, 16th of January, 20.00-21.30h Place: Lawickse Allee 13, Wageningen UST is  a national NGO in Bangladesh, working in the field of food security, women empowerment and child rights, environmental health and sanitation, climate change and disaster management. For two projects UST is currently looking for students to do an internship or thesis, namely [...]

19th of January: Workshop Participatory Monitoring & Evaluation

I-Workshop (interactive and participatory approaches) – Date : 19th of January, 20.00-22.00h.  Place: Leeuwenborch, room C78. Jan Brouwers  (Centre for Development and Innovation) will introduce you to participatory monitoring and evaluation, approaches and methods. In this interactive workshop you will learn more on how to apply these tools and methods within your work, thesis or [...]