“Just with farmers, you are not going to make it,” says Irene Visser, Managing Director of the Netherlands-African Business Council (NABC).

Interviewed by Francesco Rampa, Head of the Food Security programme at ECDPM during this years FoodFIRST conference, she explained that engaging the Dutch private sector in Africa’s Agriculture and Food Security requires an approach that takes into consideration the entire value chain, not only farmers – but also producers of equipments, fertilizers, animal feed, etc.