Transitiecoalitie Voedsel

About Transitiecoalitie Voedsel

Transitiecoalitie Voedsel is a Dutch foundation that works to accelerate the transition to a healthier, more sustainable food and agriculture system. It brings together farmers, entrepreneurs, scientists, policymakers, NGOs, health organizations, and public bodies to strengthen promising initiatives and help them scale.

The organization positions itself as a coalition builder and transition guide rather than a traditional lobby group or neutral knowledge institute. Its mission is to support systemic change in areas such as sustainable agriculture, fair pricing, plant-based protein, and healthy food environments, while also engaging with politics and government to help create the conditions for change.

Core Values

• Health: The foundation’s mission centers on enabling a healthy life on a healthy planet for everyone, with food seen as a key lever for public health.
• Sustainability: It emphasizes reducing environmental pressure, restoring biodiversity, and supporting farming and consumption patterns that fit within planetary boundaries.
• Fairness: The organization argues for fairer pricing and policy so that costs are not shifted to society, future generations, or the environment.
• Collaboration: It repeatedly stresses that systemic change requires coalition-building, shared learning, and alignment across the food system.
• Pragmatic transition thinking: Rather than moralizing, it focuses on actionable pathways, trade-offs, and interventions that can move different actors forward.

Unique Aspects

• Broad multi-stakeholder coalition: The organization describes itself as a coalition community with 100+ participants on its website, and known news describes it as a collaboration of 150 companies and organizations across food and agriculture.
• Strong project portfolio: It is involved in named initiatives such as the Groenboerenplan, Boerenperspectief, the Healthy Food Coalition, the More Plant Based Action Plan, and true pricing projects.
• Cross-system transition focus: Its work spans agriculture, pricing, protein balance, and food environments, reflecting a system-wide rather than single-issue approach.
• Policy and practice bridge: It combines coalition work with direct engagement in The Hague and with sector actors, aiming to turn practical experiments into policy and structural change.