Audrey Vankeerberghen

Since my master thesis, I’ve been following through my scientific interests in the transition of agricultural systems from a socio-anthropological perspective. I am an anthropologist and a sociologist. Through diverse scientific research and teaching activities, I built up an expertise in the field of agro-food systems and transition, and more specifically in agroecology, organic farming and conservation agriculture. I developed particular strengths in working at an interdisciplinary level between social science and agricultural science, as well as in conducting participatory research.

From 2006 to 2011, I carried out a PhD research (ULB – LAMC) on organic farming in the Southern part of Belgium: through an ethnographic fieldwork, I sought to understand organic farmers’ practices and their evolution in a changing environment. I also analyzed the way the new regulation on organic farming, its associated actors and new institutional practices, are redefining organic farming, its practices and values. In 2012, I jointed the Socio-Economie Environnement et Développement (SEED – ULg Campus d’Arlon) where I carried out twoo research about transition to Conservation Agriculture (reduced tillage) and cattle farmers’ transition to alternative parasitic treatments. In 2014, I worked at the Centre Wallon de Recherches Agronomiques (CRA-W) in a research program on Organic Farming and Protein Autonomy (Cellule Agriculture Biologique et Autonomie Protéique) where I was in charge of developing participatory and action research in the organic farming sector.

I am currently working at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (EPSPV) as a researcher and research project adviser for the “Centre d’Appui pour l’Action Co-Create” funded by Innoviris (http://cocreate-bruxsel.be/): I provide support in participatory and co-creation methodologies for research projects in the field of Urban Sustainable Food Systems and Urban Resilience. I also work as an independent expert in research projects evaluation.

Publication(s)

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  Vankeerberghen, A. & P.M. Stassart - 2016 - The transition to conservation agriculture: an insularization process towards sustainability - International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 14(4), 392-407.

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  P.M. Stassart, Van Keerberghen A., Dannevoye, B., Sallet M. - 2013 - Transition et écologisation de l’agriculture en Région Wallonne : trajectoires en Agriculture de Conservation - In J.-P., van Ypersele & M., Hudon (Eds.), Actes 1er Congrès Interdisciplinaire de Développement Durable: Quelle transition pour nos sociétés. Thème 2: Alimentation , Agriculture, Elevage. 101-122. Namur: ULB-UCL

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  Vankeerberghen, A. - 2012 - “Agriculteurs bio” : de l’institutionnalisation d’un groupe à une diversité de parcours professionnels - Uzance 2

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  Vankeerberghen, A. - 2012 - “Today, one can farm organic without living organic” : Belgian farmers’ perceptions of and reactions to recent changes in organic farming - In Ethical consumption : social value and economic practice, by James G. Carrier et Peter G. Luetchford, 146171. New-York : Berghahn, 146-171.

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