Introducing the IFAMA Young Board
The global pandemic is radically altering humanity, economic growth, and business at every turn. While it’s difficult now to see beyond the wake of COVID-19—we must.
Is sustainability in the meat sector perceived the same across the pond? To answer briefly: no, there is a real divide. A Dutch and two American pig farmers agreed to disagree. Annechien ten Have, the Dutchwoman, said it striking: “I feel a big...
COVID-19 has spread around the world at an incredible pace and is leaving a plethora of disruptions in its wake. The global economy has forever been altered as the pandemic fundamentally affected both the supply and demand side. The global food and...
Berry Marttin, who you saw earlier on this platform, advocates nature costing instead of true costing. Peter van Bodegom, environmental biologist, saw the interview and needed to respond. He doesn’t agree with Marttin. Nature costing will let us...
In a previous interview Berry Marttin, executive member of the board of Rabobank, underlined the need to sit down together, define what we want as mankind, and take the outcome to the drawing table. He challenged the IFAMA community to come up with...
What does the future of the Dutch Horticulture cluster look like? Adri Bom-Lemstra, president of Greenport West Holland, provides her view: expertise should be the Netherland's most important export product, she believes. The distribution of food...
Koppert Cress and its owner Rob Baan were hit hard by Covid-19. Overnight his turnover went down by 95%. Before the Covid-19 crisis his cresses were exported all over the world, mostly from a central production facility in the village of Monster in...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world in profound and unexpected ways. More than eleven million people have fallen ill from the virus and more than five hundred thousand have died from it. The livelihoods of millions of farmers and workers have...
"We need to go back to the drawing table", Rabobank's Berry Marttin said earlier on the IFAMA platform. Niels Dijkman, consultant in Food and Agri, responds. He feels connecting stakeholderism and the kissing awake both intellectual and practical...
What explains – from a historical perspective – the innovation and yield per unit push in the Netherlands? That is the main question of IFAMA’s story line Dutch Agri. The first person to share his perspective is Niek Koning, Food Policy Analyst...
From Davos to Delhi, Boston to Beijing, the world’s leading food companies and agribusinesses found themselves in January 2020 at the center of various maelstroms–climate change, viral epidemics, consumer pushback over plastics, challenges on...
What is the impact of Covid-19 on the food system? Is the world going to change the food system or are governments trying to go back to normalcy? Berry Marttin, executive member on the board of Rabobank, shares his view.