Seas of Change Team

Stephanie Daniels

Stephanie focuses on impact and learning on sustainable livelihoods. She has a background in sustainable supply chains and ethical purchasing. Her expertise is in sourcing from smallholders in developing countries, with a focus on cocoa. Stephanie consulted with companies and NGOs such as WWF Vietnam, Shell Oil, Oxfam America, Starbucks and Stonyfield Farms, on supply chain development in alignment with social and environmental impact goals. Prior to this, she managed procurement and farmer services at US confectioner OCP Chocolate.  She holds a B.S Environmental Studies/Wildlife Biology from the University of Vermont, M.A. International Development from Clark University and a graduate certificate in Organizational Management from Boston College.

 

Joost Guijt

Joost’s work focuses on developing more inclusive ways of doing agribusiness. Most of his work is developing and coordinating the Seas of Change program with the Sustainable Food Lab. This brings together businesses, knowledge institutes, NGO’s and producer organisations to tackle issues around ‘scaling inclusive agri-markets’. 

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Don Seville

Don is the co-director of the Sustainable Food Laboratory, a multi-stakeholder project with the mission of innovating ways to increase the sustainability of the mainstream food system. He is leading the Sustainable Livelihoods Initiative, which is developing partnerships between companies and NGOs to pilot innovations that improve the competitiveness and sustainability of small-scale farming systems.

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Emily Shipman

As a member of the Food Lab’s agriculture and development team, Emily provides project management, research, analysis, and support for the Food Lab’s efforts to implement more sustainable agricultural practices throughout value chains.

Over the past 11 years, Emily’s work has bridged many integrated areas, including economic development, food security, sustainable agriculture, food systems, community development, marketing, and communications. Emily has spent considerable time working with small-scale farmers both abroad and at home in rural Vermont. She believes these farmers are a fundamental part of the solution to some of the most pressing issues facing our planet.

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Monika Sopov

Monika specialises in sustainable agricultural chains. Her areas of focus are business development, value chain development, cooperative development, food safety and agrobiodiversity. Works in Eastern Europe, East and West Africa and Asia.

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Simone van Vugt 

Simone is an accomplished adviser, trainer and facilitator in performance measurement, planning monitoring & evaluation, value chain development, organizational and institutional development and change, multi stakeholder processes, project management and feasibility studies.

She has accomplished successful missions on Food and Security with focus on the involvement of private business for the Dutch embassies in Mali and Ethiopia. Evaluations of different programs is one of her key areas as well. She has been team coordinator of the Thematic Co-financing Programme evaluation of DGIS and the evaluation of the CSR Cacao programme of UTZ and Cargill in Ivory coast.

Currently she’s working on a program supporting  system & sector development around the dairy sector in Ethiopia and Kenya. She is also responsible for the M&E system and implementation of the entrepreneurial network of African Agribusiness Academy (AAA). She is also involved in the M&E system development of 3 other programs, 2 funded by FDOV on Coffee ( Kenya) and Maize (Tanzania) and a dairy programme in Ethiopia funded by EKN. 

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Marleen Brouwer

Marleen is working at the Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) of Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR). For CDI she works on programmes about sustainable markets, value chain development and food & nutrition security. Within Seas of Change she focuses on workshop facilitation and communication.

Marleen has been working with various organisations, including IFDC Mali, GIZ Viet Nam, the Dutch government and the European Commission. She studied political science (BSc) and conflict resolution & governance (MSc) in the Netherlands and France. Currently she is a student of the Advanced Master of International Development at the Radboud University in Nijmegen.

 

 

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