Ukraine Update: Ordinary Farming Challenges in a Most Abnormal Year
The top exporters of Ukrainian wheat today are the Russians.
That’s because they’ve stolen hundreds of thousands of tons of it from my fellow farmers. Now t...
Kornelis Kees Huizinga
Here's how you can help provide a direct-support lifeline to Ukrainians
Global Farmer Network member Kees Huizinga and his wife Emmeke Vierhout have joined forces with The Leeuw Kyiv Foundation to provide a lifeline to all corners o...
Farming on the Frontline
Global Farmer Network member Kees Huizinga, a Dutch farmer farming in Ukraine, talks about his farming experience in a country at war, who will be the most affe...
Ukraine's embattled farmers running on empty as world faces food crisis
Kees Huizinga is a member of the Global Farmer Network farming in central Ukraine. He explains shortages farmers are experiencing in this Reuters article by Gus...
War isn't stopping farming in Ukraine; stolen ag equipment stopping for Russians
Kees Huizinga is a farmer in Ukraine and a member of the Global Farmer Network. He knows that this will be a year like no other. Just to survive, he’ll have to ...
The Challenging Experiment of Planting Season 2022 in Ukraine
On my farm in Ukraine, we are embarking on a challenging experiment: We’re going to see how much food we can grow in the most overwhelming conditions imaginable...
Food insecurity: Interview with Huizinga
After spending the last few weeks telling of the threat to food security from Russia's war on Ukraine, Kees Huizinga is returning to Ukraine for spring crop pla...
GFN Members taking Ukrainian farmers' plea to German Parliament
Two members of the Global Farmer Network---Kees Huizinga, Ukraine and Marcus Holtkoetter, Germany---met in Düsseldorf to explain the plight of Ukrainian far...
Huizinga on his way to Europe to ask for support
If there are power cuts in Ukraine, electrity or internet would be lost. And if he loses access to his network, Kees Huizinga could no longer use his voice to a...
Interview with Kees Huizinga, a GFN farmer from Ukraine
Kees Huizinga is a Dutch farmer who has been farming in Ukraine for the past 20 years. At the start of the war, he sent his wife and kids out of the country and...
Kornelis Kees Huizinga
Farmer, Ukraine
Kornelis ‘Kees’ Huizinga has farmed in central Ukraine for 20 years, growing onions, carrots, wheat, barley, canola, sugar beet, corn, sunflowers and navy beans. They also have a modern dairy farm. Kees is a member of the Global Farmer Network www.globalfarmernetwork.org