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Dr. Cheryl Lans and Robby Tulus are joing BCICS as Research Associates.
Cheryl will be studying co-operative involvement in the alternative
food economy, and Robby will be researching co-operatives in Asia.
Dr. Cheryl Lans
Dr. Cheryl Lans has a background in sustainable agriculture and
did both her Masters and Doctorate at Wageningen University in
the Netherlands. In 1998-1999 Cheryl conducted research with two
groups based in Trinidad: the Caribbean Network for Integrated
Rural Development (CNIRD), and the Women and Development Studies
Group. In 1998 Cheryl was a part time lecturer at the Centre for
Gender and Development Studies, teaching feminist epistemology
to nine students enrolled in the M.Phil programme at the University
of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad. Cheryl is currently
visiting faculty in Sociology at the University of Victoria. In
that capacity she has begun research with Dr. Nancy Turner and
Dr. Gerhard Brauer on medicinal herbs used for animal health in
BC. In Summer 2003 Cheryl will be teaching a course for the Department
of Anthropology on Veterinary Anthropology and Creolization.
Cheryl recently received funding from SSHRC to do postdoctoral
research in co-operative studies with guidance from Dr. Ian MacPherson
and will commence research in July 2003. The title of her project
is ‘Movement towards an alternative food economy? Social
economy, co-operatives and sustainable agriculture in British
Columbia.’
This research will explore the evolution of an alternative food
economy and the responses to this by actors in conventional agriculture.
The research fits in with existing research being conducted by
BCICS on the involvement of co-operatives in building an alternative
food economy (for example the multi-stakeholder Growing Circle
Food Co-operative on Saltspring Island). Case studies will be
conducted on agrifood co-ops on Vancouver Island, the Southern
and Northern Gulf Islands (including Salt Spring and Malcolm Island),
and Vancouver.
Robby Tulus
Robby Tulus pioneered the Credit Union Movement in Indonesia
in the late 1960s, and co-founded the Credit Union Counseling/Central
Organization (CUCO) in Indonesia as well as the Asian Confederation
of Credit Unions (ACCU) in 1971. His started his career as managing
director of CUCO Indonesia (Jakarta 1971-80), Training Specialist
of ACCU (Seoul, Korea 1981-83), Asia Region Director of the Canadian
Co-operative Association (CCA, Ottawa, Canada, 1983-1993), Senior
Policy Advisor of the International Co-operative Alliance (New
Delhi & Manila 1993-96), and Regional Director for Asia Pacific
of the International Co-operative Alliance (ICA, in New Delhi
and Singapore 1996-2001). During his tenure with the CCA and ICA,
he worked closely with the Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA), NGOs, specialized agencies of the United Nations,
and multilateral agencies, and was instrumental in instituting
biannual ministerial conferences in the Asia Pacific Region to
create a more enabling environment for co-operative policy and
legislative reform.
In addition to his duties as an associate with the Centre for
Asia and Pacific Initiatives, Robby will be doing research with
Co-operatives in Asia and teaching courses.
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