Sustainability Projects
A growing portfolio of examples of world-changing partnerships, collective leadership and team work. These are some of the sustainability projects I have contributed to.
Across the coffee sector, many coffee producers and their families live well below recognized “living income” benchmarks. I was asked early 2019 by IDH to lead The Task Force for Coffee Living Income (TCLI) that started mid 2019 to answer a pivotal question: What are effective sourcing and pricing practices that coffee companies can adopt to help close the living income gap?
In a series of workshops, starting with the global procurement team and later extended to the global leadership team, we created a shared understanding of the state of the art insights on sustainability and CSR and identified critical challenges and opportunities most relevant for Ammeraal Beltech. We mapped these against running activities and policies and prioritized the gaps in relation to the overall strategic priorities of the company and the competitive environment.
Private sector interventions to make supply chains more sustainable have grown dramatically over the past two decades. Certification has become a widely used tool for driving sustainable practices in a multitude of sectors.
From 2012 onwards I had the privilege to lead the €30 mln public and private investment agenda behind the IDH (www.idhtrade.org) Sustainable Coffee Program (SCP) with a.o. large coffee roasters like Nestlé, Douwe Egberts Master Blenders, Mondelez, Tchibo and Mother Parker. We aimed high: supporting sustainable coffee to grow globally from 8% in 2010 to 25% in 2015..
Aquaculture is the most sustainable source of animal nutrients in the world and as the world needs to double it’s annual food production in the coming years within our planetary boundaries this young farming sector has already seen unprecedented growth.
The Netherlands has a long track record to lead the highest adoption of certified tropical timber in the world. Growing evidence demonstrates that in the many tropical countries with weak or failing governmental forest protection FSC certification is by far the best way to protect the forest. Why?
Many will remember the dramatic collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. Unsafe buildings and working conditions are the daily reality for millions of workers in apparel also outside Bangladesh. From 2016 onwards I had the privilege to lead a strong team in creating the Life And Building Safety Initiative.
