Bertus Wennink
- Department
- Inclusive Food Systems
- Title
- Senior Advisor
- Phone
- +31 20 568 8389
- b.wennink@kit.nl
Bertus Wennink (MSc) is an agro-ecologist with 25 years of experience in advisory, training and applied research in sub-Saharan Africa. His fields of expertise include: farmer entrepreneurship and value chain development; research and extension services; rural development policies and strategies; and natural resource management. He is also an experienced trainer, workshop facilitator and conflict mediator.
Projects
Publications
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West African Food System Resilience
The West African region supplies most of the food for its growing population, which now exceeds 400 million. West African countries meet most of the region’s needs for coarse grains, tuber and root crops, vegetables, fruits, and meat (excluding some areas of fast-growing consumption such as chicken). Generic data and their interpretations obscure the region’s […]
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L’essor des petits producteurs agricoles au Burkina Faso
L’approche du Projet d’Amélioration de la Productivité agricole et de la Sécurité Alimentaire. Le Projet d’Amélioration de la Productivité agricole et de la Sécurité Alimentaire (PAPSA), financé par la Banque mondiale, avait pour objectif « d’améliorer la capacité des petits producteurs pauvres à accroître les productions vivrières et assurer une plus grande disponibilité de ces […]
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The governance of agricultural extension systems
Working Paper Series 2016 – 1 Can agricultural extension systems deliver quality services to smallholder producers, often in remote areas? Yes, there is evidence that this is achieved in some developing and emerging economies. But this is by no means a common practice, and many extension systems continue to struggle with weak performance. This is […]
- Year of publication
- 2016
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Bulletin 374 – Farmers’ organizations and agricultural innovation
Since the 1990s Sub-Saharan African countries have embarked on majoragricultural sector reforms, which led to changing and innovative roles for the public and private sectors as well as civil society organizations. Farmers’ organizations (FOs) now increasingly voice the needs of their members in various fora on policy-making and orienting service provision. They are solicited by […]
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Bulletin 373 – Stakeholder-driven funding mechanisms for agricultural innovation
Agricultural development aimed at poverty reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) requires greatly accelerated technological, organizational and institutional innovation. Emphasis on strengthening the demand side for agricultural service provision and the call for a separation of responsibilities for policy making, funding and implementation have resulted in alternative funding mechanisms for agricultural research and development (R&D) at […]
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Bulletin 368 – Building social capital for agricultural innovation
Renewed attention exists for agricultural development in SSA as the engine for rural development. This results in part from the drive for reaching the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 and in particular MDG 1: a 50% reduction of (predominantly rural) poverty in SSA. It is realized that in order to achieve the MDGs, a […]
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Do all roads lead to market?
Learning from AGRA’s Market Access Programme Smoothly functioning food markets are vital for food security. They give smallholder farmers incentives to generate a surplus they can sell, and to invest in new production and postharvest management technologies. They also ensure that food reaches consumers in deficit areas. In doing so, they contribute to food security […]
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Other publications
- Farmers’ organizations and agricultural innovation. Case studies from Benin, Rwanda and Tanzania (2006).
- Access of the poor to agricultural services. The role of farmers’ organizations in social inclusion (2007).
- Building social capital for potato production and marketing: producer organizations’ initiatives in north-western Rwanda. In: Producer organizations and market chains. Facilitating trajectories of change in developing countries (2007).
- Outsourcing agricultural advisory services. Enhancing rural innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008).
- Designing innovation platforms. In: Putting heads together. Agricultural innovation platforms in practice (2011).
- The Malawi pig sector innovation platform. In: Bringing new ideas into practice. Experiments with agricultural innovation. Learning from Research Into Use in Africa (2012).
- FUPRO-Benin: preparing the ground for value chain links and sector policies. In: Empowering smallholder farmers in Markets. Experiences with farmer-led research for advocacy (2013).