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Your job Do you enjoy combining legal analysis with empirical research and engaging with farmers and other food-system actors?
Join the Law Group at Wageningen University & Research as a PhD candidate in the Horizon Europe project SOCIAL AGRI. Social issues such as working conditions, farmer wellbeing, migrant worker integration and gender equality remain insufficiently captured in EU agricultural data and policy frameworks. This makes social costs and inequalities difficult to assess and address. SOCIAL AGRI aims to close this gap by collecting evidence on social conditions in agriculture, assessing their economic implications, and translating the findings into practical legal and policy instruments to make social sustainability a measurable and actionable dimension of European agricultural policy.
You will contribute to this objective through an in-depth socio-legal study of short food supply chains (SFSCs) in the Netherlands. You will investigate how different SFSC models operate, how EU and Dutch law and policy shape their development, and how their organisation affects social sustainability, including working conditions, inclusion, community relationships and the distribution of value. Combining legal analysis with empirical research, you will use methods such as semi-structured interviews and stakeholder engagement activities, depending on the research design. You will identify legal and regulatory barriers to socially sustainable practices and explore how law and policy could better support their development. Working with other project partners, you will also...