Ron Cörvers (R.J.M.)

Research profile
  1. smallholder farmers and global value networks
  2. governance and sustainable development
  3. urban, local and regional sustainable development
  4. (social) learning for sustainable development
Research projects
  • York-Maastricht Partnership project on Climate Change and Smallholder Farmers 2022-2023
  • Fair and Smart Data spearhead, since 2021
  • Environmental Vision LIJN-50 municipalities (Vaals, Gulpen-Wittem, Eijsden-Margraten), 2019-2020
  • Meerssen Centre: Participatory, Integrated, Foresight, 2019-2020
  • GLOCULL project, Globally and Locally-sustainable Food-Water-Energy Innovation in Urban Living Labs, 2018-2021, JPI Urban Europe & Belmont Forum, http://glocull.boku.ac.at/
  • NIRAS project 2018-2020
  • SmarterLabs project, Improving Anticipation and Social Inclusion in Living Labs for Smart City Governance, 2016-2019, JPI Urban Europe http://smarterlabs.uni-graz.at/en/
  • URB@Exp project, Towards new forms of urban governance and city development: learning from URBan Experiments with Living Labs & City Labs, 2014-2017, JPI Urban Europe http://www.urbanexp.eu/
  • SPIN-project ‘Social and economic effects of partnering for sustainable change in agricultural commodity chains - A Southern perspective”; an international research programme of the University of Lampung (Indonesia) and Maastricht University (5 PhDs and 1 postdoc), 2013-2017 http://www.munpop.nl
Key publications
Taillandier, C., Cörvers, R., & Stringer, L. C. (2023). Growing Resilient Futures: Agroforestry as a Pathway towards Climate Resilient Development for Smallholder Farmers. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 7, Article 1260291. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1260291
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