Rural and Environmental History Group

Impact stories

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  Unfair Trade? Globalisation, Institutions and Inequality in Southeast Asia, 1830-1940

  How did trade and the operations of colonial powers affect economic development and social relations in a region? Pim de Zwart, researcher at the...
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  Shifting patterns of African migration between 1800 and today

  Seeking fortune or fleeing existential threat? Few topics are as politically charged and give rise to discussions as intense as migration. Together...

Highlights

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  Vici-grant for Wageningen research on poverty reduction

  14 April 2021
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  Veni grant awarded to Ingrid de Zwarte

  10 December 2020
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  Veni grant awarded to Daniel Gallardo Albarrán

  10 December 2020
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  Winner WASS Publication Award 2020

  23 October 2020

• WUR historian Ewout Frankema receives Ammodo Science Award 2019

  15 April 2019

Vacancy

News

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  21 December 2021

  Forced labour in nineteenth century Java cost many lives

  - In the nineteenth century, Javanese peasants were forced to work on plantations for low wages. This was an economic success, but at the cost of a...
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  13 October 2021

  2 fully funded PhD positions and 2 Postdoc positions (4 year terms), Wageningen University, The Netherlands

  - While economic historians have made great efforts to investigate the origins and drivers of the Great Divergence between the global North and South,...
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  02 July 2021

  Universiteit van Nederland; Bestaat een wereld zonder armoede?  

  - Kun jij je voorstellen dat je moet rondkomen van minder dan 2 euro per dag? Voor meer dan 700 miljoen mensen is dit werkelijkheid. In dit college...
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  21 June 2021

  In memoriam Dr.Ir. Jan Bieleman (1949-2021)

  - Wednesday June 9th 2021 Jan Bieleman died – 72 years old. He was an eminent member of the chair group Rural and Environmental History (RHI) for...