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	<title>Jan Huijgen</title>
	<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl</link>
	<description>Thorough thinker on the countryside</description>
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		<title>la Réinvention de l’Agri-culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Je suis fils d’agriculteur du village de Spakenburg (près de Amersfoort/Eemland), je suis né en 1957. J’ai étudié l’Agronomie à Wageningen et la Philosophie à l’Université Libre d’Amsterdam. J’ai fait un an d’études au Canada.
Ensuite, j’ai fondé une ferme multifonctionelle, l’Eemlandhoeve, en 1993, la Fédération régionale d’agriculteurs et citoyens pour la conservation de la nature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2011/01/10/la-reinvention-de-l%e2%80%99agri-culture/</link>
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		<title>Re-inventing Agri</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a farmerson of the village of Spakenburg (nearby Amersfoort/Eemland born 1957). I studied Agriculture at Wageningen and Philosophy at the Free University of Amsterdam. Have been for a year study  in Canada.
After this I founded in 1993 the Multifunctional farm the Eemlandhoeve, in 1998 the regional association of farmers and citizens for nature [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2011/01/10/re-inventing-agri/</link>
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		<title>Rural idyll</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was invite to participate in a symposium at Wageningen University with the title: ‘The new rural idyll’.
I have learned from philosophy the old reaction  patterns of European thinking: after the dark middle ages we have the Enlightement with reasonable people developing science and technology. Modern culture was developing, modern farming systems were the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2009/10/15/26/</link>
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		<title>The difference between Agricultural Policy and Rural Policy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my good friends from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Netherlands make me aware of the difference between AP (Agricultural policy) and RP (Rural Policy).
And it is important to understand this difference for the regional innovatie strategies- RIS.
Agriculture is coming from a primairy and urgent good – food production-  for the sustaing, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2008/12/06/the-difference-between-agricultural-policy-and-rural-policy/</link>
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		<title>Creating a Megacommunity on and after the EEConference …</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a remarkable mixture of all kind of people who attended the EEConference: entrepreneurs, knowledgepeople, social organisations and people from all levels of government. It was a good mixture of people who can together make the difference!
Mostly you are in connection to people from your own business. We are trained and by our jobs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2008/11/27/creating-a-megacommunity-on-and-after-the-eeconference-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Key innovationmodels for the Rural Area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were very busy with the preparation of the European Eemland Conference next week. All organisational and practical work has to be done. We are almost finishing a new Landscape house in Eemland, which will be opened by the regional and European officials.
The big tent for 300 – 500 persons is made ready, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2008/10/17/key-innovationmodels-for-the-rural-area/</link>
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		<title>On the way to an European Versatile Countryside …</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost three weeks left, than the EEConference on the Eemlandhoeve!
A lot of preparations has to be done. Thanks to the organizing comittee for handling all the logistics, workshopspreparation, catering, financials, communication and so on. A complete circus is at work for the realisation of that conference.
But, it is time to reflect upon the happening of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2008/10/08/on-the-way-to-an-european-versatile-countryside-%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>Rural European Platform  and EVC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting thing in founding the European Versatile Countryside movement is the meeting of committed people in the diverse corners of Europe. I have already told about the founding farmers of the Versatile Countryside. Very inspiring persons (VIP’s). Now I would like to tell something about the scientific people connected in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2008/10/01/13/</link>
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		<title>The spirit of Stresa/Bunschoten/Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week it was the hundred year after the birthday of Sicco Mansholt, the founder of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. I was at this celebration in the province of Groningen. A lot of people attend this meeting and the remembrance of his life and work was very inspiring.
We received a journal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2008/09/20/the-spirit-of-stresabunschoteneurope/</link>
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		<title>Rural entrepeneurship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was invited to give a guestlecture at the Agricultural University of Dronten for students all over Europa and even abroad (USA, Malawi).
I was invited to tell the story behind the European Eemland Conference which will be held in the end of octobre on the Eemlandhoeve (see www.versatilecountryside.eu)
In that lecture I told my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.eemlandhoeve.nl/2008/09/11/rural-entrepeneurship/</link>
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