scholarly journals Investment Strategies for Increasing the Agribusiness Competitiveness

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 632-643
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Dudnik ◽  
Tatyana A. Cherdakova
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Food System ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Agricultural Commodity ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
The Government ◽  
Structural Aspects

Nowadays, investment in national agri-food systems is of significant interest, as it is a necessary condition for implementing large-scale technological innovations which are crucial not only for this particular system, but for Russian economy in general. The research aims to study how investments affect the competitiveness of the Russian agri-food system and to propose a conceptual framework for strategic agribusiness management at the regional and national levels. We hypothesise that competitiveness indicators, including cost intensity of production, depend on the investment in agribusiness. Due to low access to credit, agricultural companies look for alternative investment strategies, one of which is investment subsidies in commodity production. The hypothesis was tested by examining a sample of organisations engaged in agri-food production. The sample includes profitable companies investing in production development. Sample analysis confirme d th e initia l hypothesi s that investments into technological modernisation of production significantly influenc e it s competitiveness . Whe n developin g a strategy for increasing the competitiveness of agri-food systems in terms of investment provision, it is advisable to consider not only quantitative (amount of support), but also structural aspects of support. In particular, we suggest the government to introduce the practice of providing investment subsidies to agricultural commodity producers with participation in the recipients’ capital to support their development. The research results can be used in further studies concerning the management of the agribusiness competitiveness.

Disruptive innovation and operationalization in local and sustainable food systems: Examining the University of Toronto-Local Food Plus partnership

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-139
Author(s):  
Lori Stahlbrand
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Food System ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The University

This paper traces the partnership between the University of Toronto and the non-profit Local Food Plus (LFP) to bring local sustainable food to its St. George campus. At its launch, the partnership represented the largest purchase of local sustainable food at a Canadian university, as well as LFP’s first foray into supporting institutional procurement of local sustainable food. LFP was founded in 2005 with a vision to foster sustainable local food economies. To this end, LFP developed a certification system and a marketing program that matched certified farmers and processors to buyers. LFP emphasized large-scale purchases by public institutions. Using information from in-depth semi-structured key informant interviews, this paper argues that the LFP project was a disruptive innovation that posed a challenge to many dimensions of the established food system. The LFP case study reveals structural obstacles to operationalizing a local and sustainable food system. These include a lack of mid-sized infrastructure serving local farmers, the domination of a rebate system of purchasing controlled by an oligopolistic foodservice sector, and embedded government support of export agriculture. This case study is an example of praxis, as the author was the founder of LFP, as well as an academic researcher and analyst.

Incorporating transnational labour: Migration rent, combined relocation, and offshore production networks in Malaysia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loïs Bastide
Keyword(s):  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Production Factor ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Production Networks ◽  
Global Production Networks ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
The Government

Abstract The article explores the interactions between transnational labour migration, multinational corporations’ (MNCs) location strategies, and public policies in the context of contemporary Malaysia. My main hypothesis is that the country’s position in global production networks is dependent on the presence of a large pool of foreign workers. To demonstrate this relationship, I develop the concept of ‘migration rent’ in order to account for the specific characteristics of migrant labour in Malaysia. By showing that this rent allows the optimisation of labour, as a production factor, beyond the sole issue of labour costs, the concept allows an explanation for why foreign direct investment does not move to lower-wage countries. By allowing and organising the recruitment of foreign workers on a large scale, the government has shaped territories where both capital and labour can be relocated to achieve effective production factor combinations. To understand this process, I articulate the concept of ‘combined relocation’, which describes transnational investment strategies where both capital and labour are moved to a third country—here Malaysia—under the former’s command. In so doing, the paper thus adds to the literature on MNCs’ spatial strategies, on transnational labour migration, and on Malaysia’s political economy.

IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE FOOD SITUATION IN RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 960-971
Author(s):  
N.N. Shurakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Food System ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Global Challenge

The article examines such a new global challenge as the coronavirus pandemic. The features of this large-scale, unprecedented shock and the economic crisis agent are analyzed. It was noted that among the affected sectors of the world economy, there is the global agri-food system: a demand shock is superimposed on the supply shock, world trade is paralyzed, logistics flows are disrupted, supply chains are disrupted, and agricultural production is likely to decline. The outbreak of COVID-19 has led to a fall in the Russian economy. It is concluded that currently nothing threatens food security from the point of view of physical accessibility. However, the economic availability of food may not be ensured due to income loss and rising prices. In addition, COVID-19 may negatively affect the country’s export-oriented food course, foreign economic relations in the agro-industrial sector and the current import substitution policy. Despite the fact that the country is currently provided with food, there are still problems connected with the dependence on the import of technologies and components, machinery and equipment, breeding products and seeds. It has been substantiated that in order to prevent food crisis in the foreseeable future, the restructuring and stabilization of food systems at the national and global levels is required, which could ensure their sustainability and smooth operation in terms of creating backup channels and reserves to prevent disruptions and blockages in supply chains that are observed in period of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Socio-economic Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Smallholder Livelihoods in Zimbabwe

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Mhlanga ◽  
Emmanuel Ndhlovu
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Economic Implications ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Sustainable Livelihoods Framework ◽  
The Government ◽  
Capital Intensive ◽  
Livelihoods Framework

The article revisits previous viruses such as Ebola to extrapolate the socio-economic implications of the COVID-19. Using secondary sources and the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) to guide understanding, the article argues that unless measures are put in place to safeguard smallholder activities in Zimbabwe, COVID-19 has the potential to reproduce the same catastrophic implications created by Ebola in West African countries where peasant food systems where shattered and livelihoods strategies maimed. With a perceptible withdrawal of the government from small-scale farming towards large-scale capital intensive operations, smallholders could now be even more vulnerable. The article concludes that social assistance should now be intensified to protect its vulnerable population from the ravages of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Essential Oil Nanoemulsion as Eco-Friendly and Safe Preservative: Bioefficacy Against Microbial Food Deterioration and Toxin Secretion, Mode of Action, and Future Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akash Maurya ◽  
Vipin Kumar Singh ◽  
Somenath Das ◽  
Jitendra Prasad ◽  
Akash Kedia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Food System ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Market Demand ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Toxin Secretion ◽  
Microbial Strains ◽  
Food Commodities

Microbes are the biggest shareholder for the quantitative and qualitative deterioration of food commodities at different stages of production, transportation, and storage, along with the secretion of toxic secondary metabolites. Indiscriminate application of synthetic preservatives may develop resistance in microbial strains and associated complications in human health with broad-spectrum environmental non-sustainability. The application of essential oils (EOs) as a natural antimicrobial and their efficacy for the preservation of foods has been of present interest and growing consumer demand in the current generation. However, the loss in bioactivity of EOs from fluctuating environmental conditions is a major limitation during their practical application, which could be overcome by encapsulating them in a suitable biodegradable and biocompatible polymer matrix with enhancement to their efficacy and stability. Among different nanoencapsulated systems, nanoemulsions effectively contribute to the practical applications of EOs by expanding their dispersibility and foster their controlled delivery in food systems. In line with the above background, this review aims to present the practical application of nanoemulsions (a) by addressing their direct and indirect (EO nanoemulsion coating leading to active packaging) consistent support in a real food system, (b) biochemical actions related to antimicrobial mechanisms, (c) effectiveness of nanoemulsion as bio-nanosensor with large scale practical applicability, (d) critical evaluation of toxicity, safety, and regulatory issues, and (e) market demand of nanoemulsion in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals along with the current challenges and future opportunities.

Portfolio Choice in the Russian Economy and Monetary Authorities Policy in 2007-2009

2010 ◽  
pp. 24-38
Author(s):  
V. Manevich
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Portfolio Choice ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Capital Movement ◽  
Financial Assets ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Composition And Structure ◽  
Monetary Authorities ◽  
The Government

The paper examines the composition and structure of private sector demand for alternative assets: real capital, high power money, government obligations. The private sector assets demand is limited by its resources: savings, foreign and domestic borrowing, and reshuffling of previously accumulated assets. The government assets demand in the Russian economy is a passive reflection of the private sector assets demand. This fact distorts the monetary policy, causes ineffective using of development resources. The government assets demand and its supply of financial assets to the private sector must play an active role, enlarging and correcting the private sector assets demand. The control over trans-border capital movement is the necessary condition for that end.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on Food Systems and Rural Livelihoods in Kenya – Round 1 Report

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Olwande
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
First Case ◽  
Acceptable Quality ◽  
The Government

Kenya confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on 12 March 2020. Since then, the government has been providing daily updates on the number of new COVID-19 infections, recoveries and deaths in the country, as well as implementing several interventions to manage the disease. The cumulative numbers as of 12 August 2020 were 27,425 new infections, 13,867 recoveries and 438 deaths, and rising. The objective of this assessment was to understand the effects of COVID-19 on the food system and the sub-set of the population largely dependent on agriculture. The findings were intended to inform actions to assure protection of rural livelihoods and the continued supply of adequate and affordable food of acceptable quality to the population.

scholarly journals The Roles of Agricultural Economists in Food System Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-435
Author(s):  
Stephan J. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Food System ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Global Food Security ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Production Distribution ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Key Topics

Public interest in food systems has grown dramatically, and agricultural economists have important roles to play in contributing to and leading large-scale interdisciplinary studies of the subject. Key topics include understanding food system participants' behaviors and incentives and determining what food systems can and cannot achieve. I review a global food-security project funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture that illustrates the interactions between production, distribution, and consumption of food and regional self-reliance, as well as other important areas in which agricultural and regional economists can gainfully apply their tools and methods, including studies of the impacts of local food and network analyses.

CREATING STRATEGIC GOALS AND EFFECTIVENESS INDICATORS FOR THE GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF AGRI-FOOD SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT IN THE REGIONS OF RUSSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1978-1990
Author(s):  
A.P. Potapov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Equal Distribution ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
The Government ◽  
Regions Of Russia

The aim of the work is to substantiate the possibilities of agreeing on strategic goals and performance indicators of the state regulation in developing the country’s agri-food system and local goals for developing agri-food sectors of the regions. The formation of strategic goals and indicators is due to the significant socio-economic differentiation among the regions according to the main characteristics of agricultural production: the provision of resources, the efficiency of their use, territorial location to the centers of product sales, natural, climatic and soil conditions. The diagram of the relationship between goals, objectives andindicators of state policy in the field of regulation of the development of agri-food systems in regions is presented. The forms of interaction between the management systems of the federal and regional levels on the issues of conducting a coordinated socio-economic policy in the agri-food sphere have been identified. These include: the signing of financial agreements between the Russian Ministry of Agriculture and regional authorities regarding the provision of subsidies for specific areas of agricultural policy; decomposition of target indicators for all regions within a separate indicator or direction; allocation of regions with a special status; co-financing of agricultural policy directions between federal and regional budgets; complementing the goals of the federal level through the implementation of similar directions in the structure of regional policy; general consideration of the regional specifics of Russia. The main directions for creating strategic goals and development indicators of increasing the effectiveness of state regulation of agri-food systems in the regions are proposed: equal distribution of state support funds by reducing the excessive concentration of subsidies in the main agricultural regions; updating the established priority directions for the development of the agro-industrial complex in the regions of Russia; taking into account regional production, social and infrastructural opportunities in the formation of directions of state agrarian policy; differentiation of development goals for AFS in the regions.

scholarly journals A geografia da alimentação no contexto da pandemia: repensando os sistemas alimentares para o sustento dos corpos e do planeta

2020 ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
PATRÍCIA PONTES
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Food Choices ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
System Environment ◽  
Structural Aspects

 RESUMOA crise proveniente da pandemia do novo coronavírus vem tornando ainda mais urgente a necessidade de repensarmos práticas individuais e sociais e as formas como elas afetam o planeta. Uma dessas práticas diz respeito à nossa alimentação, cada vez mais dependente de um sistema alimentar industrial que aprofunda problemas socioeconômicos, ambientais e sanitários – como as pandemias. Aliando a análise de aspectos estruturais às dimensões culturais e interseccionais que influenciam os hábitos alimentares contemporâneos, visamos com este artigo refletir sobre os impactos das nossas escolhas alimentares sobre o meio ambiente e os diferentes grupos populacionais, buscando uma geografia da alimentação que proponha/construa caminhos alternativos para a redução desses impactos e para a transformação dos atuais sistemas alimentares.Palavras-chave: Geografia da alimentação. Pandemia. Sistema alimentar. Meio ambiente. Grupos populacionais. The geography of food in the context of the pandemic: rethinking food systems to sustain bodies and the planetABSTRACTThe crisis due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus is making the need to rethink individual and social practices and the ways they affect the planet even more urgent. One of these practices concerns our food, which is increasingly dependent on an industrial food system that deepens socioeconomic, environmental and health problems – such as pandemics. Combining the analysis of structural aspects with the cultural and intersectional dimensions that influence contemporary eating habits, with this article we aim to reflect on the impacts of our food choices on the environment and different population groups, seeking a geography of food that proposes / builds alternative paths to reduce these impacts and transform current food systems.Keywords: Geography of food. Pandemic. Food system. Environment. Population groups.  

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