Chloë de Vries

Chloë de Vries, MSc, is a Researcher at Wageningen Economic Research within Wageningen University & Research, focusing on international policy across Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Kenya. Her work bridges environmental sustainability and socioeconomic development for smallholder agricultural communities.

Her research interests cover:

• Development Economics (household income, rural poverty)
• Environmental Economics (biodiversity footprints, climate adaptation)
• Agricultural Economics (shrimp/cocoa value chains)
• Sustainable Aquaculture systems
• Smallholder livelihood resilience
• Food policy intervention design

Recent publications (2023-2025) reveal consistent engagement with tropical agriculture under climate stress, emphasizing practical policy tools like theory of change models. Key themes include mangrove-shrimp farming integration in Bangladesh, living-income thresholds for Indonesian cocoa households, and urban food system transformations.

No scientific awards were documented in the provided text.

Advising activities and grant funding details remain unspecified; however, her collaborative outputs involve multi-institutional teams across Wageningen Economic Research, addressing real-world policy gaps in resource-limited settings.

She contributes to projects like Food Trails and biodiversity footprint studies through Wageningen Economic Research's policy analysis unit, with geographic networks spanning Southeast Asia and East Africa.