Pietje Vervest

Pietje Vervest

Programme Coordinator, Economic Justice, Corporate Power and Alternatives Programme

Pietje Vervest has specialised in the European Union's trade and investment agenda, the international investment regime. Recently she moved to working more on agrarian justice issues. She is also one of the co-founders of the Burma Center Netherlands, where she is still active. She was connected to XminusY for over 20 years and sits on the board of Ander Europa. Pietje is Dutch and studied Economic Anthropoloy at the University of Nijmegen where she developed an Asianfocus. She joined the TNI in 1992 in what originally was the Philippine Project – looking at EU policies towards the Philppines. In teh last 20 years this project grew into what is now called the Economic Justice Programme.

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52° 22' 25.6836" N, 4° 53' 27.366" E
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Recent content by Pietje Vervest

Beginners Guide to Trade

February 2013
Alternative Investment Model: , EU Investment policy: , EU Trade Policy & FTA's: , Trade & Investment:
This beginners' guide provides a critical perspective on EU’s trade and investment policies and the business interests they serve. TNI worked on the guide with a Europe-wide network of trade activists, belonging to the Seattle to Brussels network.

European and Asian leaders' summit displaces farming community

November 2012
Land Reform: , Land sovereignty:
Delegates of the 9th Asia European Heads of Government Meeting (ASEM9) may not have known that the luxury villas, in which they met, had displaced a thriving farming community. But the story of the land grab is all too familiar one and casts doubt on the commitment of Asian and European nations to work for food security and sustainable development.  

Trouble in the Triangle

July 2005
A collection of ten papers that analyse the relationship between drugs and conflict in Burma and the consequences of the Burmese illicit drugs economy for neighbouring countries.

Drugs and Conflict in Burma (Myanmar)

December 2003
Alternative Development:
This issue of Drugs & Conflict tries to bring nuance to the polarised debate on the Rangoon-focussed political agenda, the demonising of the ceasefire groups and repressive drug policy approaches.