Jacqueline Sluijs
- Department
- Inclusive Food Systems
- Title
- Advisor
- Phone
- +31 (0) 20 568 8259
- j.sluijs@kit.nl
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Rural sociologist by training (MSc Wageningen University). Expertise in project planning, evaluation, advice and project management in East as well as West Africa. Extensive experience in training/facilitation, advisory work, compiling and editing online information products on a range of issues in the field of sustainable economic development and agricultural and rural development.
Projects
Publications
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An external review of the PlantwisePlus proof-of-concept phase, 2021-2023
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Report
Launched in mid-2020, CABI’s PlantwisePlus programme builds on the organization’s previous Plantwise and Action on Invasives initiatives. It comprises new elements developed from the learnings of these two earlier programmes, which are designed to fill in any gaps and respond to identified opportunities PlantwisePlus is striving to help sustainably produce more and safer food for […]
- Year of publication
- 2023
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Planning the unplannable: designing value chain interventions for impact @ scale
Working Paper Series 2015 – 2 Value chain development approaches seldom deliver large scale impact. Based on the examination of five cases where impact at scale was realised, recommendations are offered to increase the chances of value chain interventions contributing to impact at scale. More working paper series
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Regional Markets for Local Development
Smallholder engagement with agribusiness in practice This publication outlines an alternative route to achieving sustainable economic development and food security in developing areas. Rather than on high-value, niche export markets for tropical products which attract a lot of attention, we want to focus on local and regional commodity markets. It is our intention to show […]
- Year of publication
- 2016
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Going for governance
Lessons learned from advisory interventions by the Royal Tropical Institute Governance is important in every aspect of sustainable development, as it affects guidance, processes, consistent management, cohesive policies, accountability mechanisms and the right to decide on particular areas of responsibility. This is equally true of all types of organisation, regardless of their purpose and motivation […]
- Year of publication
- 2013
Downloads
Other publications
- Fred Zaal, Jacqueline Sluijs, Roger Bymolt and John Belt. Going local: Governance in food commodity value chains and pro-poor development in: Going for governance: Lessons learned from advisory interventions by the Royal Tropical Institute, 2013
- Van ’t Hof, S.; Sluijs, J.; Asamoah-Hassan, H.; Agyen-Gyasi, K. (2010) Internet, lifelong learning & information literacy. How increased connectivity spurred the development of an Information Literacy course at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in the information age, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) Working Papers Series I3. Amsterdam: KIT.
- Editor of and contributor to the publication Onderlinge Hulpfondsen. Historische en etnografische essays. (Mutual Funds. Historical and ethnographical essays), Marcel van der Linden and Jacqueline Sluijs, published by IISG (International Institute of Social History), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1996.
Compilation/editing of online dossiers at KIT on:
- Agricultural-innovation-(AI)-coaching
- Branding-for-development
- Local-sourcing
- Sustainable-procurement
- Sustainable-spices-dossier
- Fair trade
- Microfinance
Compilation/editing of online dossiers for CTA’s Knowledge for development website on:
- Seed systems
- Sorghum
- Rethinking the rice value chain
- Food safety
- Food security
- Biofuels
- Soil health
- Horticulture
- Climate change
- Water management
- Meat and fisheries
- Drylands agriculture
- Foresighting
- Nanotechnology in agriculture
- Research ethics
- Tertiary agricultural education
- Biodiversity, science and governance
- Demanding innovation , S&T strategies in ACP farming systems
- ICM strategies – bridging gaps
- ST&I development production on commodities: bananas; cassava; coffee; sugar