The Netherlands has a variety of initiatives for nature-inclusive community agriculture. They are a driver of the agricultural transition and use models such as steward-ownership and cooperatives. Traditional financiers are often unable to support them, but alternative financiers also find it difficult to fund these initiatives due to the diversity. Initiatives therefore often struggle at financing. This stalls the agricultural transition. There are however promising examples that deserve to be emulated. Through this project, we develop a model together with farmers and financiers that helps them achieve successful financing more quickly. The model offers shared agreements and room for diversity.
Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action
What does an economy look like that focuses not on GDP growth, but on well-being, ecology and justice?
What is needed to achieve this sustainable economy and how is our current economic system holding back these changes?
We are exploring these questions from a practical perspective as part of the program: ‘Economic transition: the costs and benefits of (in)action’. Together with partners from academia, the professional sector, government and social movements, we are working to shape this transition, set it in motion and anchor it. In doing so, we actively apply knowledge in practice to bring about a transformation of our current economic system.