My research focusses on the qualities and effects of care farms, social aspects of urban farming, agroecological farming, citizen initiatives and educational farming. I use transition theory, entrepreneurship, social movement theory to analyse the developments of the care farming sector and other innovative types of agriculture.


Research activities are focussed on topics like:

- What are qualities of care farms
- What are the effects for clients, farmers, care and agricultural sector and society
- Which factors influence the success of collaborations between care and agricultural sector
- Interactions between entrepreneurship, business model, network and success
- What are effects of educational farms
- What is the impact of green in the neighbourhood and involvement in green activities on health and wellbeing of citizens in deprived neighbourhoods
- What is the impact of social community enterprises
- How can citizen initiatives and other pioneering initiatives deal with obstacles
- How does Agroecological farming develop in the Netherlands