24 juni 2010
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Where am I? What time of the year is it? What am I supposed to celebrate today? Usually when I get back to Quito after a weekend of hiking in the mountains, I feel a bit overwhelmed by all the traffic, the crowds of people and the amount of garbage. ...

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Eén van de jongens in mijn onderwijsgroep voelt zich duidelijk nog niet helemaal op zijn gemak. Hij is zenuwachtig, durft weinig te zeggen en heeft moeite met het lezen van de Engelse teksten. Ik stel hem een vraag over Baudelaire.

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In the second part of the story ‘Why (Gambian) Mangoes Matter’ I will bring forward my first assertions on the current approach to the food security equation and try to provoke some thoughts on the limitations of such an understanding towards tackling food insecurity in the country.

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Normally I don’t like going to a café or bar on my own. Sitting at a table alone, in between groups or couples makes me feel lonely. Not so in Amsterdam. The Dutch “gastvrijheid” I experienced in this city was amazing. I entered a pub, waiting for a ...

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Iets meer dan een jaar geleden verhuisde ik naar mijn huidige appartement. Een, al zeg ik het zelf, riant appartement op één van de mooiste plekjes van Maastricht.

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Tackling The Gambia’s Food Insecurity: Why (Gambian) Mangoes Matter is a series of articles devoted to the problem of food insecurity in The Gambia and the potential role of mangoes in addressing it. It is based on regular findings from the field, general observations from work at the WFP country office and the usage of some common sense when thinking, out of the box, about this multidimensional problem. With every following article millions of highly interested readers of this weblog section will be regularly presented with some 'food for thought' on The Gambian food security situation in order to make the reading a more interactive exercise, stimulate some debate on the problem of world hunger and open the mind to the different facets of food (in)security. Enjoy!

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I can´t deny it any longer. The end of semester is getting closer. It´s over with the travelling for a while. I need to get into my books and revise what I was supposed to have learned in the last three to four months. Usually, I am quite prone to ex...

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Photographs can make your hair stand up by their mere intensity. I visited the World Press Photo Exhibition the other day and was deeply moved, by some of the photographs. The content of the pictures was very different. They showed Georgian women cry...

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Sinterklaas is the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus, with a slight difference: his birthday (that is the day Dutch children receive their presents) is on the 5th December, or in some parts of the country on the morning of the 6th. He is known by ...

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Can an exchange in Liege count as an international experience? When in the late 1980s, the then Faculty of Economics started its internationalization strategy quite some people were very skeptical. Because students could go on exchange to Liege ...

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