Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Almere Stad Area, Netherlands Netherlands
Occupation
founder and owner at De Fryske
Industry
Apparel / Fashion
Website
http://www.catharinuswierda.nl
About
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...
Tags
dairy development
sustainability
daretodairy
small holder farmers
solidaridad
solidaridadnetwork
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