November 9, 2023
On October 12th 2023, the Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP) organized the World Food Day event at the Rijtuigenloods in Amersfoort. FoodFIRST was also present during the afternoon to facilitate a workshop on the topic of International Responsible Business Conduct (IRBC). This topic was selected in alignment with the overall theme of World Food Day: recognizing the role of the private sector in creating sustainable food systems. Manon Wolfkamp, Ruud van Soelen (Social Economic Council), and the NFP collaborated to lead the workshop.
October 18, 2023
October 18, 2023
De Nederlandse bilaterale relatie met Afrika vereist een strategische heroverweging. Landen als Frankrijk en Duitsland zijn al ver gevorderd in het strategisch en geopolitiek nadenken over hun relatie met Afrika; zo stelt het instituut Montaigne dat de ontwikkeling van de landbouwsector in West-Afrika een van de sleutels zal zijn in de strijd tegen het Jihadisme. Nederland lijkt in dit denken achter te blijven. Met het aanstaande commissiedebat over de nieuwe Nederlandse Afrikastrategie 2023-2032 in het vooruitzicht (donderdag 5 oktober a.s.), schreef foodFIRST onderstaande brief aan de TK cie BuHaOs met hierin enkele uitgangspunten die volgens ons in de nieuwe Nederlandse Afrikastrategie onderbelicht zijn gebleven.
August 2, 2023
The recent foodFIRST ‘Vijverbergsessie’ on June 29th, titled "Africa "beyond its post-traumatic stress'': Towards a New Policy Discourse on Africa", focused on the government's new Africa strategy for 2023-2032. The session featured Koert Lindijer and Dorette Corbey as speakers. The dialogue demonstrated once again that it is clear that we need to move away from traditional development cooperation policy. But what role could or should a Dutch Africa strategy have in this new context?
May 17, 2023
How to walk the talk in accelerating food systems transformation? During the first of a two-part Vijverberg Session series, 60 stakeholders came together on March 29th 2023, to jointly sharpen their perspectives: how can the global and the Dutch community of knowledge institutions, private sector, banks, civil society and government, effectively contribute to this transformation?
January 18, 2023
The last Vijverberg session of 2022 was a hybrid event on 14 December 2022. FoodFIRST invited two guest speakers, professor Ruby Rabbinge and professor Mohammed Hassena, to discuss the importance of systems thinking in agri-food development.
December 14, 2022
We must feed nearly 10 billion people on this planet by 2050; the question is how we can do so within the planet's boundaries? “The United Nations Food Systems Summit has made it very clear that we need bold actions to transform the ways we produce, process and consume food across the world”, stated EU Commissioner for Agriculture Janusz Wojciechowski in February 2022. [...]