{{Short description|Area in the netherlands}}'''Food Valley''' is a region in the Netherlands<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gelderland.nl/smartsite.dws?id=11294 |title=Regio FoodValley (voorheen regio De Vallei) - Provincie Gelderland |publisher=Gelderland.nl |date=2008-04-23 |accessdate=2012-03-30 |archive-date=2020-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926162753/https://www.gelderland.nl/errorCustomInternalServerError.html?aspxerrorpath=%2Fsmartsite.dws%3Fid%3D11294%2F |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gelderlander.nl/voorpagina/devallei/10766319/Rhenen-op-het-matje-over-betalen-aan-Food-Valley.ece |title=Rhenen op het matje over betalen aan Food Valley |publisher=De Gelderlander |date=2012-03-30 |accessdate=2012-03-30}}</ref> where international food companies, research institutes, and Wageningen University and Research Centre are concentrated. The Food Valley area is the home of a large number of food multinationals and within the Food Valley about 15,000 professionals are active in food related sciences and technological development. Far more are involved in the manufacturing of food products. Food Valley, with the city of Wageningen as its center, is intended to form a dynamic heart of knowledge for the international food industry.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.regiofoodvalley.nl/en.html |title=Welkom in de Regio FoodValley |publisher=Regiofoodvalley.nl |date=2012-03-19 |accessdate=2012-03-30 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130222160116/http://www.regiofoodvalley.nl/en.html |archive-date=2013-02-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Within this region, [https://www.foodvalley.nl/ Foodvalley NL] is intended to create conditions so that food manufacturers and knowledge institutes can work together in developing new and innovating food concepts.
== Current research about the Food Valley ==
The Food Valley as a region has been the subject of study by several human geographers. Even before the Food Valley was established as an [https://www.foodvalley.nl/about-us organisation] in 2004 and as a region in 2011<ref>{{cite web|title=WERV|url=http://www.werv.nl/|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=werv.nl|archive-url=|archive-date=|accessdate=2012-08-01}}</ref> Frank Kraak and Frits Oevering<ref>{{cite web |url= http://overons.rabobank.com/content/images/FoodValleyWageningen-200304_tcm64-77231.pdf |title= Food Valley Van agglomeratie naar cluster |publisher= Rabobank Nederland |date= |accessdate= 2012-08-01 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> made a SWOT analysis of the region using an Evolutionary economics framework and compared it with similar regions in Canada, Denmark, Italy and Sweden. A similar study was done by Floris Wieberdink.<ref name="Wieberdink">{{cite web|url=http://essay.utwente.nl/57846/1/scriptie_Wieberdink.pdf |title= Van Netwerk tot Regio |publisher= Universiteit Twente |date= |accessdate=2012-08-01}}</ref> The study utilised Geomarketing concepts in the WERV, the predecessor of the Regio Food Valley. Geijer and Van der Velden<ref>{{cite web |url= http://overons.rabobank.com/content/images/Kracht%20van%20de%20Vallei%20-%20volledige%20rapport%20incl%20voorwoord_tcm64-131685.pdf |title= De economische Kracht van de Vallei |publisher= Rabobank Nederland |date= |accessdate= 2012-08-01 }}{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> studied the economic development of the Regio Food Valley using statistical data.
=== Discussion ===
The research performed in the Food Valley has generated some discussion about the influence of culture on economic growth. Wieberdink<ref name="Wieberdink" /> argued that culture and habitat are not spatially bounded, but historically. More recently a study about the Food Valley<ref>{{cite web|url=http://issuu.com/grboom/docs/publieksversie |title= Het gezicht van de innovatie |publisher= Issuu |date= |accessdate=2012-08-01}}</ref> argued that culture and habitat are in fact spatially bounded. Both studies, however, recommend the Regio Food Valley to promote its distinct culture.
==See also== {{Portal bar|Netherlands|Business and economics|Food}}
==References== {{reflist}}
Category:Economy of the Netherlands Category:Food technology organizations Category:Science and technology in the Netherlands Category:Food science Category:Wageningen Category:Geography of Gelderland