OUR STORY
CONNECTING FARMERS OF TODAY TO
POLICY MAKERS OF THE FUTURE
Through the pleasure of food, organized and executed by Hotelschool The Hague Students
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Boer Bistro
A colaboration project between youth agricultural organisations that found a disconnect between youth and agriculture and city youth and youth from rural areas. With their project BoerBistro they are letting young people organise dinners on farms all over the country to start connecting, unifying and educating.
Floating Farm
The first litteral floating farm of the world. Floating Farm produces in a circular and climate adaptive way healthy nutrition at the location people actually live. They are the venue of the dinner and are a great source of inspiration when it comes to thinking innovatively about sustainable agriculture.
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HTH Students
As students from Hotelschool The Hague we are always encouraged to use our education on managing and organising for good purposes. Hotelschool The Hague also emphasizes on sustainability and how to use sustainability as a tool in the hospitality industry. Therefore BoerBistro was a perfect fit also taking into account personal interests of us students always looking for inspiration and innovation for current topics,
SOME BACKGROUND TO STAND ON SOLID GROUND
Common goal: we need to get a more economically and environmentally sustainable agricultural system to maintain feasibility of feeding the country/world and having farmers thrive.
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Yet still something is not flowing as it should. There is a critical element missing in solving this problem. The link between the policy makers and the farmers.
The recent protest of Dutch farmers shows that there is a need for better communication between farmer and politicians. Policy makers want there to be more sustainable farming and farmers in turn want the exact same thing. However, it has to be economically feasible on both sides.
We are here to create a platform to start conversation and to inspire to look for solutions outside of the box.
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The common goal is there. It is stated on several websites of political parties.
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D66
Member of parliament Tjeerd de Groot: “70% of the Dutch nitrogen emissions come from agriculture, a large part of which comes from intensive livestock farming. That is huge. At the same time, the contribution of intensive livestock farming to our own economy is less than 1%.The ratio is completely lost."
PVDA
We want the agricultural sector to become healthy, as an economic sector and as a carrier of the countryside, and to contribute to the solution of the world food problem. We want healthy food from sustainable agriculture that recognizes the boundaries of the planet, that the consumer trusts, that values ​​animal welfare and has a fair distribution of merits in the chain (fair trade). A food chain with a heart for people, animals and nature.
GROENLINKS
GroenLinks believes it is important that the entire agricultural sector becomes more sustainable.
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VVD
We are proud of the hard-working entrepreneurs in agriculture and horticulture. We not only want to maintain their strong position, but also improve it further.
CDA
Our farmers and market gardeners make a major contribution to our fair economy. They provide healthy, safe and good food and the most beautiful flowers and plants for consumers around the world. Moreover, they play an important role in the sustainable management of nature and greenery in the Netherlands.
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