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1 December 2021 - Improving livelihoods in Burundi via coffee   Burundi belongs to the world’s poorest countries. The project ‘Sustainable Coffee Sourcing from Burundi’ supports coffee farmers in Burundi to improve their livelihoods in a sustainable way. Coffee plays a vital role in the Burundian economy as the primary export product...

26 July 2021 - The European rules for reporting non-financial information (NFRD) will be overhauled. In April, the European Commission presented its proposal for a new directive for corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting; the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

3 February 2021 - From 1 February, Tijmen de Vries and Harry Kager will join communication and consultancy agency Schuttelaar & Partners as a partner. This brings the number of partners at S&P to 8. These eight are fully committed to using their expertise to advise numerous companies and governments on how the world can become a bit mor...

9 December 2020 - Earlier this year, the Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna for discovering the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. Manuel Winter takes this event as the occasion to inform you about the latest developments regarding the status of NBTs inside the EU.

10 June 2020 - Blockchain technology can improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers in developing countries and boost transparency in international value chains. This is the outcome of a successful pilot, where blockchain technology has been applied to the organic rice chain in Cambodia. Interested in the results? Participate in the...

27 May 2020 - By Casper Zulim de Swarte Last Wednesday, the European Commission finally unveiled its long-awaited strategy for sustainable and healthy food: the Farm to Fork strategy. Usually the announcement of such a large European strategy leads to high expectations regarding a potential breakthrough. As it turns out now, the ne...

14 April 2020 - Many organizations contribute to a more sustainable world and take accountability for their efforts. "The way in which they report their impacts can be clearer and more transparent," says Bram Ueffing, Lead Developer Online Tools at Schuttelaar & Partners. "For this purpose, we have developed the Materiality Scan”. Th...

24 March 2020 - A crisis changes our food pattern. When looking at empty shelves in supermarkets, the Dutch will live on pasta with sauce from a jar, pancakes and canned soup in the coming weeks. But later, when everything turns back to “normal”, what do we eat? After the first days of crisis, we see a number of patterns emerging in...

4 March 2020 - Schuttelaar & Partners and sustainability network Foodpolicy NL, organizers of Foodpolicy's Outbreak congress, have decided to cancel the 2020 edition of the congress, which was scheduled for the 4th of June. Given the uncertainty surrounding the Corona virus and the expected rush in the autumn, it seemed advisable...

17 February 2020 - More than 60 Dutch students responded to Avebe's call to design the factory of the future. The assignment for the Student Challenge to celebrate Avebe's 100th anniversary was challenging: what if you could build a factory from scratch for Avebe? What techniques would you use to maximise the value of the ingredi...

14 May 2019 - On May 9, 2019 Schuttelaar & Partners will be among the more than 100 exhibitors at ‘Knowledge for Growth’ in Ghent, one of the largest and most renowned life sciences conferences in Europe. 1300 experts from more than 550 companies and organisations from biotech, pharma and medtech, as well as investors, universities...

28 November 2018 - Today in Cambodia the first rice of the BlocRice project was traded digitally between farmers of the Raeksmei Agricultural Cooperative and rice exporter AmruRice. The farmer registers their harvest after which ownership is digitally transfered — from farmer, via cooperative, to AmruRice. There are still a lot of steps...

8 September 2017 - Since their creation in 2015, the SDGs are gaining ground among stakeholders. But according to Hugo von Meijenfeldt, Co-ordinator Implementation SDGs at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the pace of change must accelerate. “Too often I am preaching to the converted. That is not effective.

18 August 2017 - At the moment, humanity is facing a major health crisis – a so-called ‘hidden hunger’, a condition of micronutrient deficiency standing for the lack of intake of micronutrients in our daily diets. An example of a common micronutrient deficiency is ‘iodine deficiency’. According to data obtained by the World Health Orga...

11 April 2017 - How can we help Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) set up a sound sustainability plan and encourage them to communicate about it?

3 March 2017 - On 21-22 February the EU-funded IoF2020 project was officially launched in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. An inspiring start of the project enabled project partners to establish a structured collaboration and present their innovative research endeavors, aiming at improving agricultural production through the use of Intern...