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Name: Jeroen Kruft (Jeroen Kruft)
Organization:
Ananda Chocolate / Amigos International
Expertise:
farmer entrepreneurship, farmer organization, access to markets, green production, business development services
Countries of interest:
Tanzania, Indonesia, India, Latin America, Ecuador, Peru, Europe, Netherlands
Biography:
Jeroen Kruft (Arnhem, 1969) lived in the Netherlands, Tanzania, Jamaica and Indonesia before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Physics at Macalester College, St. Paul, USA. After graduation, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where he worked as a musician, teacher, and environmentalist. Jeroen recorded...
Name: Clay Gordon (claygordon)
Organization:
TheChocolateLife.com
Expertise:
consumers, business development services
Countries of interest:
Latin America
Biography:
I first became interested in chocolate, professionally, in 1994 and began actively working in the field in 1998. I started publishing chocophile.com in 2001 and had a book published, Discover Chocolate, in 2007. In early 2008 I created the online community TheChocolateLife.com, which now has over...
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Name: Rozemarijn Apotheker (Rozemarijn Apotheker)
Organization:
Royal Tropical Institute
Expertise:
access to land, access to services & inputs, gender & livelihoods, business development services, public-private partnerships
Countries of interest:
Africa
Biography:
Working at the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Rozemarijn is involved in several assignments concerning sustainable cocoa. For example, research on outreach to female cocoa farmers, capacity buidling of technical partners and advise on gender mainstreaming in the cocoa value chain.

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