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For those who didn't see it yet: Babatunde's Part 2 of this letter is available now. Core message: avoid playing the tribal...
Dick Veerman
2/20/2021 5:51 pm
Have we tackled the Farmer-Herder Crisis as a nation? (1)
For those who don't know Otto (yet), please check the interview he granted us last year.
Dick Veerman
2/19/2021 10:06 pm
Have we really tackled the farmers-herders crisis as a nation? (2)
Ken Giller sends us this article (with lots of infographics) on food insecurity in Africa Food insecurity crisis mounting in...
Dick Veerman
2/19/2021 4:26 pm
How to tackle food waste and security bottlenecks in Africa?
For our Dutch readers, please check the plea Niek Koning and Wouter v.d. Weijden published here two days ago. And check Ikechi...
Dick Veerman
2/17/2021 1:17 pm
Have we tackled the Farmer-Herder Crisis as a nation? (1)
Ikechi Agbugba, I only saw it today, otherwise I would have sent it to you before: the Dutch government service RVO just...
Dick Veerman
2/16/2021 11:17 pm
How to tackle food waste and security bottlenecks in Africa?
Henk and Babatunde, thank you for answering my questions! Let's try indeed to go from the principles of agronomy and...
Dick Veerman
2/14/2021 10:11 pm
Have we tackled the Farmer-Herder Crisis as a nation? (1)
This is about human suffering, agribiological facts and laws of nature on the one hand and good governance on the other. Henk...
Dick Veerman
2/14/2021 12:11 pm
Have we tackled the Farmer-Herder Crisis as a nation? (1)
I added a link to the farmer-herder crisis in Babatunde's text. The crisis is in essence a battle between livestock and arable...
Dick Veerman
2/13/2021 12:41 am
Have we tackled the Farmer-Herder Crisis as a nation? (1)
Bernard #4, thank you for your comment! Do you mean that you expected an automated translation? Unfortunately that is not...
Dick Veerman
2/4/2021 12:14 am
Utilising scenario analysis to plan for a post-COVID-19 landscape
I agree! And I am sure, so does Hans. But there are things they can do better than we do. The trick is to make them do what we...
Dick Veerman
2/2/2021 12:46 am
Bye Manpower, Hello Machines and Value
Thanks a million Amelia for your support and the support of the province of Zuid-Holland in making this start!
Dick Veerman
1/23/2021 4:11 pm
IFAMA 2020 goes Digital: Harvest & Highlights
Jaap, I guess the particularity of this vision is that it defines money and value creation as the direct mirror of real reality...
Dick Veerman
1/15/2021 10:33 pm
Natural capital accounting: get a shared vision and get going!
But Belinda, although Koos says natural capital shouldn't be new, it actually is for our times. Natural capital accounting fully...
Dick Veerman
1/8/2021 10:25 pm
Natural capital accounting: get a shared vision and get going!
Absolutely! They’re great! There’s an enthusiasm around we don’t see over here. I loved captain Helen’s flight of the...
Dick Veerman
12/25/2020 1:09 am
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Martinus, could you please describe some examples of the way operations like that work from a distance or without someone...
Dick Veerman
12/16/2020 10:34 pm
Dutch horticulture as a remotely operated glocal multinational
I know Martinus. But completely remotely operated?
Dick Veerman
12/16/2020 9:57 pm
Dutch horticulture as a remotely operated glocal multinational
Piet, could you explain what your ‘wow’ stands for?
Dick Veerman
12/10/2020 8:34 am
How a culture of depoliticization stands in the way of effectively addressing societal challenges
Meanwhile in Africa the old Western type discussion is on: is change towards that kind of new future better served by socialism...
Dick Veerman
11/20/2020 12:47 am
The Food Security Conundrum of sub-Saharan Africa
Henric, sure, airfreight exports are just a few percent of Dutch total horticulture exports. The question Hughes puts on the...
Dick Veerman
11/15/2020 7:21 pm
Dutch horticulture as a remotely operated glocal multinational
OK, Niko, you're narrowing down the discussion to pigs? Did you check our exports in horticulture? Pig meat is lagging behind...
Dick Veerman
11/14/2020 7:18 pm
It's the free market food chain, stupid - but farmers must be able to catch up (part 2)
Henric, I guess Professor Hughes is making a different point. He says the Netherlands aren't a place to airfreight from as...
Dick Veerman
11/14/2020 4:31 pm
Dutch horticulture as a remotely operated glocal multinational
Hi Niko, thx for your critical comments! Niek Koning is particularly keen on asking the question: suppose all delta's by the...
Dick Veerman
11/13/2020 12:36 am
It's the free market food chain, stupid - but farmers must be able to catch up (part 2)
We will record a new talk this morning. For our Dutch readers, this is what the most qualitative of Dutch TV channels thinks is...
Dick Veerman
9/4/2020 8:47 am
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Wouter, is that a traceable fact or something 'Kremlin watchers' know or something you know because Mansholt told you?
Dick Veerman
8/31/2020 8:33 pm
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Niek and Krijn, thank you very much for your additional comments digging deeper in recent history! They're invaluable explaining...
Dick Veerman
8/31/2020 6:13 pm
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Thank you Krijn for correcting me! Mansholt comes out of my version of Niek's words as a Eurocommissioner favoring Dutch...
Dick Veerman
8/31/2020 10:03 am
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Wouter, what made DLO tick so well in the triple helix you usually like to deny as a success as much as you are critical of...
Dick Veerman
8/31/2020 8:43 am
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Niek, thank you for clarifying the way the Dutch have used the EU in their own interest against the interests of - mainly -...
Dick Veerman
8/31/2020 12:24 am
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
A second table with these 3 guys is on its way, so please give them input to ruminate on! Wouter, I'd almost argue that if...
Dick Veerman
8/30/2020 3:37 pm
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
#6, oops, that was a slip of my pen: we - almost certainly - didn't export raw milk to London as it is a perishable. Thx, I took...
Dick Veerman
8/30/2020 1:54 pm
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Thank you for sharing your additional points, Krijn! I'm tempted and will execute my feeling so, by inviting Jan Cees Vogelaar...
Dick Veerman
8/30/2020 1:28 pm
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
I just invited Hendrik J. Kaput to join this discussion in a comment on the Dutch section of Foodlog. He made a critical remark....
Dick Veerman
8/30/2020 12:33 pm
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Jur #1, the point - made by Niek Koning and Krijn Poppe in the discussion above - is about the exact cooperatives you say...
Dick Veerman
8/30/2020 10:14 am
The Dutch used to be capitalist farmers, the 19th century forced them into family farming
Wouter, would you have called Facebook, Alibaba and Amazon old hat in 2000?
Dick Veerman
8/29/2020 10:34 pm
Can Artificial Intelligence be the food system’s savior?
Thx Carolien!!!
Dick Veerman
8/29/2020 12:35 pm
Can Artificial Intelligence be the food system’s savior?
As he has some difficulties to connect, I'm posting the comment Aidan Connolly just sent by mail: Delighted to see a blog...
Dick Veerman
8/29/2020 12:04 am
Can Artificial Intelligence be the food system’s savior?
Carolien, would you do me a tremendous favour and be the first to adventure in trying to answer them? There's no right and...
Dick Veerman
8/28/2020 11:02 pm
Can Artificial Intelligence be the food system’s savior?
Sure, nobody knows. I fully agree Carolien, as I do with your rejection of AI governing human destiny (in spite of Agent Smith)....
Dick Veerman
8/28/2020 7:26 pm
Can Artificial Intelligence be the food system’s savior?
The point is rather that AI will dominate and data will dominate all trends in agriculture. In a number of books and his March...
Dick Veerman
8/27/2020 11:44 pm
Can Artificial Intelligence be the food system’s savior?
Krijn Poppe in this project, I have been talking - as Kathryn White, Hector RR Laurence and Amelia Oei are well aware - about...
Dick Veerman
8/22/2020 10:03 am
The Digital Effect on the post-Corona Food System – six big Questions
Now tell me: you’re already in this new game?
Dick Veerman
8/21/2020 8:52 pm
The Digital Effect on the post-Corona Food System – six big Questions
It means you'll enter into a relationship with your customer, Henric. Now you're just a nobody pumping up a commodity and feed...
Dick Veerman
8/21/2020 11:24 am
The Digital Effect on the post-Corona Food System – six big Questions
Krijn #6, thx a lot for sharing your view!!
Dick Veerman
8/21/2020 10:51 am
The Digital Effect on the post-Corona Food System – six big Questions
#3 Henric, you could guarantee the exact life cycle from farm to shop or create value by making sure that a veg or fruit contain...
Dick Veerman
8/21/2020 10:50 am
The Digital Effect on the post-Corona Food System – six big Questions
Krijn, what do you - as a classic Millean, bien pensant liberal - think of the six big questions (probably all elephants in...
Dick Veerman
8/20/2020 11:08 pm
The Digital Effect on the post-Corona Food System – six big Questions
Krijn Poppe, check it out now. Don't hesitate to reach out to Mary Shelman in case you've questions for her.
Dick Veerman
8/20/2020 7:01 pm
The Digital Effect on the post-Corona Food System – six big Questions
Henk, thank you for commenting from your broad and long experience in Africa!
Dick Veerman
8/17/2020 9:08 pm
'Africa needs to develop both its agriculture and food processing industry'
A whole bunch of Africans have joined the discussion on LinkedIn. Niek Koning and Henk Breman, I'm curious what you think of...
Dick Veerman
8/17/2020 12:21 pm
'Africa needs to develop both its agriculture and food processing industry'
Raj Vardhan, thank you very much for your wise points and questions! The trend towards digitization and new digital solutions...
Dick Veerman
8/14/2020 5:12 pm
Digitization of Food opens up new Value Propositions - Join the Conversation, Wednesday August 12
Wouter, would you consider Silicon Valley as a result of a triple helix approach or the agrifood complex in the Netherlands?...
Dick Veerman
8/6/2020 11:22 pm
'Get your act together, then export the Netherlands' food system'
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