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Dr. Kees Jansen is an Associate Professor in the Rural Sociology department at Wageningen University & Research. His work focuses on political ecology, agrarian studies, and international development with an emphasis on pesticide governance, plant disease management, and Latin American agricultural systems. He co-edits the Journal of Agrarian Change and leads research projects addressing pesticide risk, global governance of agricultural technologies, and labor conditions in plantation economies.
His research integrates critical agrarian political economy with risk theory, examining how technological systems interact with social justice. Key themes include the greening of the agrarian question (agroecology, food sovereignty), the conventionalization of organic agriculture, and labor dynamics in agricultural value chains. Recent projects analyze coffee landscape transformations in Latin America and the socio-technical dynamics of banana disease governance.
Dr. Jansen teaches advanced social theory and research methods, supervising MSc and PhD students exploring topics like pesticide exposure in Costa Rica, oil palm expansion in Mexico, and labor rights in agricultural sectors. His interdisciplinary approach combines political ecology with critical realism to address complex agrarian challenges, emphasizing the material and political dimensions of technological change.
