Greetje Schouten
- Department
- Inclusive Food Systems
- Title
- Senior Advisor
- Phone
- +31205688273
- g.schouten@kit.nl
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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
Publications
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Gender and forest resources in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic literature review
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Research article
Consolidating, analysing and synthesizing the empirical literature on gender and forest resources within low- and middle-income countries to unravel the multifaceted factors contributing to gender disparities. This systematic literature review provides a comprehensive understanding of the gender disparities in forest resource management, highlighting the multifaceted impact of gender norms on women’s access to and use […]
- Year of publication
- 2024
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Mid-term evaluation of the Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes (ISLA) programme 2021-2025
This report presents the findings of the mid-term evaluation (MTE) of the second phase of IDH’s Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes (ISLA), funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The ISLA programme was first launched in 2015 and is now half-way its second funding period (2021-2025). In view thereof, the purpose of this MTE is—besides accountability to […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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Contested representations: A comparative analysis of palm oil sustainability in Malaysian and Dutch media
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Research article
The emergence of palm oil as the world’s most produced and consumed vegetable oil has prompted various policy initiatives to help govern the industry in a sustainable manner. These initiatives include transnational sustainable certification schemes, such as the Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), and national level sustainability standards, such as Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil. […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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Navigating competing demands in monitoring and evaluation: Five key paradoxes
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Research article
Evaluation in complex programs assembling multiple actors and combining various interventions faces contradictory requirements. In this article, we take a management perspective to show how to recognize and accommodate these contradictory elements as paradoxes. Through reflective practice we identify five paradoxes, each consisting of two contradicting logics: the paradox of purpose—between accountability and learning; the […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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Frugal innovation and legitimacy
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Book chapter
While legitimacy related to frugal innovation has not yet received much attention, in this chapter we argue that the concept is of key importance to this field. We identify three legitimacy challenges for frugal innovation: the possibly exploitative tendencies associated with the dominant role of MNCs in local informal communities; how frugal innovations are often […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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Connecting the Concepts of Frugality and Inclusion to Appraise Business Practices in Systems of Food Provisioning: A Kenyan Case Study
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Research article
Small and medium size business enterprises (SMEs) are the linchpin in systems of food provisioning in sub-Saharan Africa. These businesses occupy the middle of the agri-food chain and face a food security conundrum: they must ensure that smallholder producers of limited means can operate under fair terms while low-income consumers are supplied with affordable and […]
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Out of Balance: Global–Local Tensions in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships and the Emergence of Rival Initiatives in Producing Countries
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Research article
Studies on multi-stakeholder partnerships (MSPs) have highlighted the potential for conflict in MSPs, and particularly at the global–local interface has been identified as a key source of tension for partnerships in global value chains. This article uncovers the nature of global–local conflicts, how these conflicts can play out in global MSPs, and how this can […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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