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Greetje Schouten

Department
Inclusive Food Systems
Title
Senior Advisor
Phone
+31205688273

Greetje Schouten is a senior advisor with 15 years of experience in the areas of sustainable and inclusive transformations of agri-food chains. She has worked extensively on projects that involve collaborations between the private sector, NGOs, and/or state actors.

Greetje has in-depth experience with a wide range of value chains and commodities in Southeast Asia (e.g. in Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia), Africa (e.g. in Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, Kenya, and Uganda), and Brazil, including aquaculture, dairy, cereals, palm oil, and soy, among others.

Greetje uses a range of qualitative methodologies that include comparative configurational methodologies (e.g. QCA), systematic literature reviewing, and process-tracing.

Prior to joining KIT she was a senior research fellow at the Partnership Resource Centre of Rotterdam School of ManagementErasmus University. Next to her work with KIT, Greetje also has a research position at Wageningen University and Research.

She holds an MSc in International Development Studies from the University of Wageningen and Research, and a PhD in Environmental Governance from the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University. 

Projects

  • Navigating systemic market transformation: Mid-term Review of IDH 2021 – 2025

    • Institute
    • Project

    IDH has contracted KIT Institute and the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) to conduct a mid-term and end-term evaluation of IDH’s full corporate portfolio of programs. IDH is an international organisation that brings together public and private stakeholders with the aim  to make global agricultural markets more sustainable and more inclusive.  In December 2024 KIT completed […]

  • Evaluation of the Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes (ISLA) programme

    • Institute
    • Project

    In september 2023, KIT completed a mid-term evaluation of the Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes, an international land use management programme of the Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH), financed by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The evaluation assesses whether ISLA is on track to reach its goals, and provides recommendations for the second half of the programme. […]

Publications