Kees Jansen works on political ecology and agricultural and food technology in relation to international development (www.keesjansen.eu). He studies social justice and risk perspectives. Current projects involve the multi-level governance of plant diseases, the global governance of pesticides and the greening of the agrarian question (agro-ecology, food sovereignty, the conventionalization of organic agriculture).

Areas of interest:

· Social shaping of pesticides and other high-risk, agricultural technologies

· Sociology of standards in global commodity chains and corporate social responsibility (particularly environmental and fair trade labels)

· Discourses of 'best agricultural practices' (particularly in relation to crop protection and development intervention)

· Images, voice, and control in agrarian modernization

· Knowledge conflicts and social struggles

· Risk, culture, and agrarian political ecology

· Environmental and agrarian change in Latin America

· Interdisciplinarity as an ontological issue