Hanneke van Ormondt is a leading voice in the Netherlands at the forefront of nature-inclusive and circular agriculture. She is co-founder of Caring Farmers, a fast-growing movement of farmers committed to transforming the food system, with the shared goal of achieving nature-inclusive circular farming by 2030.

Alongside her work with Caring Farmers, Hanneke is co-director at Urgenda, where she specialises in agriculture and food system transition. She brings a strong advocacy background, having previously worked as spokesperson for Wakker Dier and as project lead at the AAP Foundation, combining activism with policy and systems thinking.

Trained as a biologist, Hanneke spent years in the field—tracking monkeys in the forests of Indonesia and following elephants in Cameroon. It was later, during an outbreak of swine fever, that she made a pivotal connection: the way we farm animals every day is deeply linked to biodiversity loss and wildlife protection. Since then, her work has focused on addressing this connection at its root—by transforming agriculture itself.