Just came back from Holland - big climate change.
Gé you already know, but the guys below are Jelger de Vriend, the tough buyer of Albert Heijn produce and John Hoppenbrouwers, another of those great buyers. He's responsible for vegetables. Just made a lot of progress on action points that we have to cover related to Africa. We're worried about supplies from Zimbabwe, but also from Kenya. Political analyses from the UN show an increasingly unstable situation. In the case of Zim we all know that, but Kenya is new on the tricky block. We decide to start talks with our suppliers about how they see the situation.
On the last evening I had dinner with most of the program assistants who have been working for the program in Ghana over the last three years. All girls, most of them blond. I can excuse myself, I never saw them before they left the plane in Accra. I just interviewed them on the phone. We tried to get men, but they had these funny questions like: how is the public transport in Accra... Exit boys. The girls are far more adventurous than the boys!