THE COFFEE VINE, EPISODE 3 - REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE, WITH LENNART CLERKX AND ADRI YAHDIYAN.
“We need to find nuggets of gold in the past to survive in the future.” Says our partner Adri next to Lennart Clerkx in this interview curated and produced by “Heard It On The Coffee Vine” with Alex Kitain who recently launched this podcast, as an evolution from the interviews he used to do on Instagram Live. Listen up!
ondernemen in de nieuwe economie (Radio, Dutch spoken)
“The story of sustainable coffee with Lotje Kaak and Maarten van Keulen”. In this podcast by MVO Nederland, Lotje of Fairtrade Original and Maarten from This Side Up are invited to talk with Michel van Kats about the trends towards sustainable coffee, how companies can make ethical choices, and that in the end - that it’s not that difficult to make a proper change. It’s a message of hope and positivity, whilst also touching on the difficulties on the road.
About MVO Nederland: “MVO Nederland supports businesses that buy, manufacture or invest abroad. We collaborate with Dutch businesses and their international trading partners to produce innovations for the New Economy. We work with individual companies and business groups, particularly in the agrifood, chemicals, textile, leather and coffee sectors.”
Myanmar podcast
Part 1: The LOCAL COFFEE STORY
Demystifying Myanmar as a ‘new origin’ in coffee. Myanmar has been growing coffee for decades and built an established local producing and consuming industry.
Part 2: The Specialty ERA
Why and how did Myanmar move from commercial to specialty coffee production? We highlight the political and social dynamics that led to local and foreign investments in specialty coffee, with special focus on the role of USAID/Winrock.
Part 3: THE FUTURE
How will the country continue to thrive in the specialty coffee industry and remain relevant while major coffee development programs approach their end?
Grenzeloos ondernemen (Radio, Dutch spoken)
“How do you make the international coffee trade more equal and fair? By stepping in and linking the coffee farmer directly to the end consumer. Dutch social enterprise This Side Up has been doing this since 2013 and is now active in 15 countries. A podcast about how you can grow as a social scale-up based on trust. Also in corona times.”
Bas Clerkx and Maarten van Keulen from This Side Up Coffees are guests in the podcast studio of Grenzeloos Ondernemen (Entrepreneurship without Borders). They tell their international entrepreneurial story to Folkert Tempelman and share tips for doing business abroad.
"On paper we are a coffee importer, so basically a trader. In practice, we are the matchmaker between coffee farmers in 15 countries on the one hand, and customers such as roasters, offices and cafés in 20 countries on the other side", say Maarten van Keulen (head of operations) and Bas Clerkx (strategic support).
Listen to the podcast here.
