{"id":814,"date":"2025-10-02T03:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/van-eijk-toon\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T03:55:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T03:55:52","slug":"van-eijk-toon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Eijk Toon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"middle content\">\n<div class=\"column left\" id=\"columnleft\">\n<section class=\"block article author\">\n<div class=\"headline\">\n<h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tToon van Eijk<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-content\">\n<div class=\"about-author\">\n<div class=\"img border\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/146400-2-eng-gb\/van-eijk-toon_author.jpg\" alt=\"van Eijk Toon\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">Dr. Van Eijk is a senior rural development expert and multi-disciplinary tropical agronomist with extensive field experience in Eastern &#038; Southern Africa. He worked over 20 years in Africa (5 long-term and 25 short-term assignments). His focus is poverty reduction through integrated rural development. He has worked in projects funded by FAO, IFAD, World Bank, UNOPS, AfDB, DGIS, FINNIDA, SIDA, NORAD, various Embassies and NGOs. His fields of expertise are: sustainable rural development, tropical agronomy, farming systems research and development, agricultural extension (Farmer Field Schools), commercialization of smallholder agriculture, value chain development, rural innovation, management and institutional set-up of agricultural research and extension, rural sociology including livelihoods approaches, and farmer cooperatives and organizations. He has field experience in rain-fed, flood-fed and irrigated agriculture with many food- and cash-crops. He is a pragmatic agronomist with insight in the wider context of sustainable rural development. He has demonstrated experience in all phases of project cycle management (PCM) (including identification, appraisal, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects and programs). His multi-disciplinary background allows him to cover crosscutting issues such as gender and environment adequately. Recently he has been advising various agricultural service providers in Kyrgyzstan and completed a TOT training course on the management of agricultural cooperatives.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section class=\"content column wide left author content view\" id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"fader\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"body contents\">\n<div class=\"share\">\n\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n    var addthis_config = {\n        ui_language = 'en'\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis sharing\">\n\t<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style\" addthis:title=\"van Eijk Toon\">\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_twitter\" tw:via=\"thebrokeronline\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_facebook\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_pinterest_share\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_preferred_4\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_button_compact\"><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a class=\"addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<p>\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var addthis_config = data_track_addressbar;<\/script><br \/>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/js\/300\/addthis_widget.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n\t<!-- AddThis Button END -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"addthis article_options\">\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"children\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n<div class=\"img\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/systemic-change-but-how\/\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/var\/broker\/storage\/images\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/systemic-change-but-how\/467738-1-eng-gb\/systemic-change-but-how_column.jpg\" alt=\"Systemic change, but how?\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/systemic-change-but-how\/\">Systemic change, but how?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/\">Toon van Eijk<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t03 June 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tImplementing systemic change requires consciousness development.\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/blogs\/post-2015-shaping-a-global-agenda\/systemic-change-but-how\/\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"children related\">\n<div class=\"article\">\n<div class=\"wleft\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/files\/extension\/broker\/design\/broker\/images\/no-image.png\" alt=\"Toon van Eijk: The primacy of personal change\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"wright\">\n<header>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">Toon van Eijk: The primacy of personal change<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/\">Toon van Eijk<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t03 February 2025<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n<p class=\"yunu3cvqabft7vifv\">\n\t\t\tThe WRR report is thoroughly analytical and comprehensive. It is one of the best reports on development aid in the last few decades. The crucial issue is: how to implement its mostly sound recommendations?Robert Chambers (1997:220) distinguishes i&#8230;\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\">read more<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"navigator\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n","protected":false,"raw":""},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toon van Eijk Dr. Van Eijk is a senior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template_3.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-814","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>van Eijk Toon \/ Authors - The Broker<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Toon van Eijk is a tropical agronomist and rural development expert.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"van Eijk Toon \/ Authors - The Broker\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Toon van Eijk is a tropical agronomist and rural development expert.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Homepage - Broker Online\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"van Eijk Toon \/ Authors - The Broker","description":"Toon van Eijk is a tropical agronomist and rural development expert.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/","og_type":"article","og_title":"van Eijk Toon \/ Authors - The Broker","og_description":"Toon van Eijk is a tropical agronomist and rural development expert.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/authors\/van-eijk-toon\/","og_site_name":"Homepage - Broker Online","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebrokeronline.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}