Later Career
After leaving politics Beckers became involved in green NGOs: she was chairperson of the Platform Biologica, which promotes organic agriculture, from 1993 to 2004. She was chairperson the Foundation for Nature and the Environment since 1994 for ten years. After she left these positions in 2004 she was made Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau. After that she held several positions in advisory boards, for instance of the green Triodos-bank and Research Centre of Wageningen University.
In 2006 Beckers died after a long sick-bed. After her death she was praised for being an authentic, compassionate and idealistic politician, who stood far from the televised political theater of today.
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