I blog about the food system and the climate crisis. I blog to make sense of this fascinating, wide-ranging issue, and to give a home to the many diversions and technicalities that I encounter in my job as a researcher for Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth Netherlands).
Blogposts are not necessarily the exact position of Milieudefensie. I am a human, who makes mistakes and omissions. Feel free to point me to these.
About me
I finished a PhD on how the shifting of power in global agriculture is changing land use and sustainability at VU Amsterdam. After that, I stuck around at the university, doing a postdoc on the sustainability of European agriculture, and then becoming an assistant professor.
In my work as a scientist, I was confronted by the urgency and injustices of the climate crisis. I took an active role in the climate movement, at first by organizing fellow scientists.
After some time, I switched careers to focus entirely on food, agriculture, and the climate crisis. In my current work at Milieudefensie, I work to hold agribusinesses and food giants accountable for their climate impacts.
Additional work on Google Scholar