Catharinus Wierda

Almere Stad Area, Netherlands Netherlands

founder and owner at De Fryske

Apparel / Fashion

As son of a dairy farmer, with my study and work experiences I'm interested to contribute to sustainable food. Crucial are sustainable chain and market development together with more craftsmanship and entrepreneurship of family farmers. I am a private consultant since 2007. I've done different (interim) projects and jobs to improve sustainability in the dairy chain, from farmer to the market and society. At this moment I'm International Program Coordinator Dairy for Solidaridad and co-founder of the Farmers Guild, both for fifty percent of my time. For this I was manager sustainability at dairy cooperative CONO-cheesemakers (www.caringdairy.nl), projectleader of the Sustainable Dairy Cha...