Ukraine Agriculture and Food Security Platform

The Dutch government encourages Dutch companies who want to do business with Ukraine. Investing in and collaborating with Ukrainian companies is important, in order to facilitate this for the Dutch companies 3 platform have been established at the initiative of the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) and on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition, the European Commission has also established a platform for transport and logistics.

The platform 'Agriculture and Food Security Ukraine' helps Dutch parties to collaborate successfully in their efforts to help Ukraine. A lot of attention is paid to cooperation between the government, companies and other private parties (public-private partnerships), which help the agri-food sector in Ukraine to recover quickly. The platform: provides companies, NGOs, knowledge institutions and other players who want to work in Ukraine with the information they need; tailors initiatives to Ukraine's needs; enables networking and matchmaking.

The Ukraine Agriculture and Food Security Platform aims to find synergy in Dutch efforts to help Ukraine, with a particular focus on exploring potential public-private partnerships that can contribute to the early recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine's agriculture sector.

Reinoud Nuijten

Reinoud Nuijten, former Agricultural counselor to the Netherlands Embassy in Kyiv, has become the new sector account agrifood for Ukraine within the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO). This means that Reinoud will actively support the Agrifood Platform, we will work closely together to best facilitate the efforts of the Dutch public and private sector and to align them with the needs of Ukraine.

Building on Lillan Henseler's work, Reinoud will strengthen the connections to International Financial Institutions.