Professor of Impact Assessment for Food Systems
Ruerd Ruben holds the special chair on Impact Assessment for Food Systems at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), The Netherlands and is part of the planning and management committee of the CGIAR program ‘Agriculture for Nutrition and Health’ (A4NH) led by IFPRI.
At the recent conference of the ISEAL Alliance in Zurich, I was invited to join a panel discussion on the effectiveness of standards and certification for reinforcing tropical supply chains. Based on a wide range of serious impact studies and other evidence, the general insight that commodity certification provides some…
The international research and practice communities working at the interface of agriculture, nutrition and health convened this summer at the Agriculture Nutrition & Health Academy (sponsored by IMMANA and DFID) and during the Feed-the-Future Innovation Lab (sponsored by USAID) in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was a real honour and rich learning…