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Teus, before going offline hidden from the rest of us, please explain what attracks you. It would show some gratitude to the...
Dick Veerman
10/26/2023 5:30 pm
Food Security in Africa Requires More Productive Livestock (1)
Now, can you help me out? What's so boring or plain wrong? Is it health claim related?
Dick Veerman
2/23/2023 1:03 pm
Tropical Crops advancing Sustainable Agriculture for Development: A case of Okra
Dear Pieter, I used Deepl to translate your comment in Dutch (with just minor edits to compensate for the clumsiness of the...
Dick Veerman
2/23/2023 1:01 pm
Tropical Crops advancing Sustainable Agriculture for Development: A case of Okra
Reinier, this is our English speaking section. Please express yourself here in that language. As you're Dutch you can find the...
Dick Veerman
2/12/2023 6:32 pm
Intensification of African agriculture serves food security, nature, climate and people (1)
Babatunde, dear brother and friend, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us every week! A Merry Christmas to you...
Dick Veerman
12/24/2022 12:56 pm
Food Security: Improving Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Sharing Among Farmers
#3, Dear Henk, in the series we want to produce in the coming weeks, we would like to interview you and Ken Giller on Africa's...
Dick Veerman
3/8/2022 8:42 pm
Putin's War Sets the Stage For New Geopolitical Policies
Congrats, Babatunde for for the four years! I hope you'll guide your farmers for many more years to come!
Dick Veerman
9/24/2021 11:15 pm
Food Security: Food Supply Chain Actors
Carolien, indeed, it was an industry initiative. But did you know Big Bad Cargill drove it? Even you seem to think they are bad.
Dick Veerman
9/14/2021 8:18 pm
How Cargill Raises Awareness About the Consequences of So-called Sustainable Choices
Frank, we know that’s a common opinion. Can you tell us what you think of the GFLI?
Dick Veerman
9/3/2021 8:53 am
How Cargill Raises Awareness About the Consequences of So-called Sustainable Choices
Arend, do you think the Western and Asian countries care enough about batteries from an African perspective?
Dick Veerman
8/6/2021 6:55 pm
Electric cars and cobalt mining: The environmental sustainability of the privileged
Hugue, indeed it is. Especially in my white part of the world. We need to hear this from black people on the ground. Using the...
Dick Veerman
8/3/2021 10:18 pm
Electric cars and cobalt mining: The environmental sustainability of the privileged
#1 Hugue, in defence of Otto (I know his way of thinking as we prepared this interview a while back), I suggested to him to use...
Dick Veerman
6/10/2021 6:56 pm
Africa is in between two era’s, like the West
Thank you for your extensive comment, Jur! Kees Blokland and Melle Leenstra (agri counsellor from the Dutch embassies in Egypt...
Dick Veerman
6/9/2021 9:59 am
The mistake white people make in establishing new African cooperatives
Jur Schuurman, you have a lot of experience in dealing with cooperatives in low income countries. What is your opinion? There...
Dick Veerman
6/5/2021 11:39 am
The mistake white people make in establishing new African cooperatives
This is a most interesting and crucial discussion. In 1-1 conversations - sadly, I hope more people will speak out here in...
Dick Veerman
6/4/2021 1:13 pm
The mistake white people make in establishing new African cooperatives
And, please, Otto Kroesen: how do you feel about Jur's fear in #1?
Dick Veerman
5/24/2021 4:14 pm
Will digitisation finally emancipate smallholders and revolutionize fair trade?
Jur, how do you judge the critics of fair trade telling certifiers they cannot guarantee that fair trade premiums land in the...
Dick Veerman
5/24/2021 4:09 pm
Will digitisation finally emancipate smallholders and revolutionize fair trade?
Well, Frank, in a natural capital system someone is going to get paid by compensating for that loss. In case it is a consequence...
Dick Veerman
5/8/2021 8:14 pm
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Suppose a tree in a virgin forest in Brasil captures C, who is to make cash out of it? The answer depends on a set of...
Dick Veerman
5/6/2021 1:38 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Henk, in your last phrase you seem to be telling us that in the Netherlands C is being burned instead of being sunk in soil or...
Dick Veerman
4/26/2021 12:27 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Henk, thank you for your very precise answer! Can you define ‘integrated soil management’? I know the concept of IPM. I...
Dick Veerman
4/22/2021 8:21 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Henk, do you carbon farming makes sense at all?
Dick Veerman
4/21/2021 12:18 am
Why CO2 offsetting will not solve our climate problem
Meanwhile in Nigeria today: due to forex restrictions the prices of staple food will go up even more. Thank you Ikechi Agbugba!
Dick Veerman
4/19/2021 12:01 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
We're talking. Just talking. Talking about a situation that, in Nigeria for example, is perhaps on the brink of an Arab -...
Dick Veerman
4/18/2021 3:40 pm
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
And, dear African friends, how do you feel about agro-ecology and the way white NGO's and personalities promote it? Please feel...
Dick Veerman
4/15/2021 12:45 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
Babatunde Olarewaju, Hugue Nkoutchou, Ikechi Agbugba, as we are co-organizing our very first GAPPAP webchat - global...
Dick Veerman
4/15/2021 12:40 am
More people, slow growth - how to boost development in Sub-Saharan Africa?
I fully agree! But you don't have to shift to San Marzano industrial tomatoes ;-)
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 8:40 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
And that means it can't be an opening option for Nigerian tomato growers to sell their stuff in town instead of letting it rot...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 4:51 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
O yes, I know. Canned and sauced tomatoes are a different variety (San Marzano in Europe, if I'm not mistaken). But did you...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 4:26 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
That’s most likely the case Coen, but the point is: why waste so much in your home economy and import from abroad? You can...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 4:04 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
Before I got involved in AFN, I was unaware of what is going in SSH Africa or - as this case is Nigerian - in states like...
Dick Veerman
4/11/2021 1:42 pm
The Diaspora Potato and Onion Ag-Tech Rescue Initiative in Nigeria
Babatunde, is it really this 100% bad: did your country (Nigeria) completely miss out on climate change in agriculture? How is...
Dick Veerman
4/3/2021 9:43 am
Climate Change: A Threat to Food Security in Africa
Eric, please answer the question! The point I am making, is a simple one: you can make the reproach you did (no doubt about...
Dick Veerman
3/30/2021 9:47 pm
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
Now Frank-Eric, please tell us how to make for an inclusive discussion. Can you?
Dick Veerman
3/27/2021 10:10 pm
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
Prof. Wim van der Putten, you are a true expert from NIOO KNAW in the Netherlands. We would be much obliged if you would comment...
Dick Veerman
3/23/2021 11:45 pm
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
Maarten, in fact James Sumberg et al. are trying to say that some S(oil)O(rganic)M(atter) guru's mustn't fool us. At the same...
Dick Veerman
3/23/2021 11:38 pm
Regenerative agriculture – one half of another simplistic dichotomy
Arnold, can't understand a word of what you're saying! We'll have to remove comments in national languages.
Dick Veerman
3/21/2021 2:54 pm
The dangers of a Ministry of Truth by proxy
Jan Bransen, we would be much obliged if you would care to express your thoughts on Dennis' fears about the book burnings that...
Dick Veerman
3/21/2021 2:22 pm
The dangers of a Ministry of Truth by proxy
Frank, the advantage of mileage is mellowness. I pick my battles. This one will take well over a lifetime. When I grew up...
Dick Veerman
3/21/2021 1:39 pm
The dangers of a Ministry of Truth by proxy
Thank you Babatunde for sharing your thoughts with us. We need to know this over here. And thank you for the two great...
Dick Veerman
3/20/2021 12:42 am
Food and Farmers Insecurities: Time to Act
This article is quite something. I tend to lay down on this topic in public and only talk about it amongst friends. Why? We're...
Dick Veerman
3/17/2021 4:14 pm
The dangers of a Ministry of Truth by proxy
Hugue Nkoutchou, Babatunde Olarewaju, Otto Kroesen and Niek Koning, what do you think on the trust matter?
Dick Veerman
3/14/2021 8:28 pm
The Pungent Food Insufficiency Narrative In The Nigerian Southwest
Arnold, many apologies, but you're speaking in a foreign tongue! AFN is strictly in lingua franca English.
Dick Veerman
3/13/2021 3:42 pm
The Pungent Food Insufficiency Narrative In The Nigerian Southwest
The real pungent question Dr Ikechi is putting at the table is: how to create trust in a country that is on a slippery slope...
Dick Veerman
3/13/2021 10:35 am
The Pungent Food Insufficiency Narrative In The Nigerian Southwest
Okay, I see what you mean Toon. Babatunde Olarewaju what do you think?
Dick Veerman
3/8/2021 10:55 pm
Farm Mapping: the Future of Efficient African Farming
Toon, I've learned about the experiences of monks growing grapes in Roussillon area in France between 900-1400. Over a number of...
Dick Veerman
3/8/2021 1:18 pm
Farm Mapping: the Future of Efficient African Farming
Coen, so let's make it simplex again. The baseline sounds like this: if a society wants to step up agricultural production, you...
Dick Veerman
2/28/2021 4:06 pm
Food Security: Making Agriculture Work for All
Coen, you're just talking $ or € volume. At that point world trade regulation on specific commodities and goods comes in....
Dick Veerman
2/28/2021 1:07 pm
Food Security: Making Agriculture Work for All
Thank you Hugue Nkoutchou for #1! You're launching a discussion a think tank in the Netherlands on African agriculture I...
Dick Veerman
2/27/2021 11:06 pm
Food Security: Making Agriculture Work for All
Gil and Babatunde, the challenge - as I am getting the message clearer by the day, reading you and talking to you - is...
Dick Veerman
2/23/2021 10:27 pm
Have we really tackled the farmers-herders crisis as a nation? (2)
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