Consequences of applying the Conception of the Agricultural and Food Policy to the year 2005 and effects of the optimized allocation of production in the Slovak Republic

In the paper, there is described using of the optimization models AGRO-3 SR for modeling food production chains in the Slovak Republic (the modified version of the Czech model AGRO-3) and ALOKA for optimal allocation of the domestic agricultural production computed by AGRO-3 SR into 4 different regions of the SR for simulation of consequences of various types of agrarian policies on the effectiveness of the Slovak agriculture to the medium-term horizon 2005. There are formulated and evaluated 4 scenarios for the model AGRO-3 SR and two alternatives A and B for the model ALOKA relating to all scenarios. Results of simulations have shown that the best result was reached in the scenario 4 by the price liberalization in the whole food chains.

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Cadenas agroalimentarias orgánicas en el sur de chile: tensiones que condicionan su puesta en valorOrganic agrifood chain in southern Chile: Tensions conditioning its potential value

Estudios Sociales Revista de Alimentación Contemporánea y Desarrollo Regional ◽

10.24836/es.v25i47.308 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 25 (47) ◽

pp. 39 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sandra Ríos Núñez ◽

Leonor Núñez Yañez

Keyword(s):

Organic Agriculture ◽

Industrial Production ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Food Production ◽

Production Systems ◽

Food Chains ◽

Governance Mechanism ◽

Southern Chile ◽

Potential Value ◽

Production Models

ResumenEl modelo industrial de producción de alimentos ha incentivado la emergencia de cadenas agrarias alternativas. Estas suponen modelos de producción fuertemente vinculados al territorio y tienen la finalidad de transitar desde la producción industrial a la captura de valor por medio de sistemas de producción que garanticen la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria. Esta investigación analiza el funcionamiento de la agricultura orgánica en Chile, en tanto producción agraria no convencional, con la finalidad de perfilar su desarrollo como una estrategia de captura de valor y producción de alimentos saludables especialmente para pequeños productores agrarios. Se busca visibilizar modelos de producción que reconectan el flujo de producción-circulación-consumo a través de un mecanismo de gobernanza que posibilite la captura de valor en el territorio.AbstractThe current judgement of the agro-food industrial production has encouraged the emergence of alternative agro-food chains. These involves production models strongly linked to the territory, and that aim to transition from industrial production to capture value through production systems that ensure food security and sovereignty. This research analyzes the performance of organic agriculture in Chile, while unconventional agricultural production, in order to shape its development as a strategy to capture value and healthy food production especially for small farmers in order to visualize models production reconnect the production circulation-consumption through a governance mechanism that enables the capture of value in the territory.

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Estimation of Carbon Dioxide Emissions from a Traditional Nutrient-Rich Cambodian Diet Food Production System Using Life Cycle Assessment

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13073660 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (7) ◽

pp. 3660

Author(s):

Rathna Hor ◽

Phanna Ly ◽

Agusta Samodra Putra ◽

Riaru Ishizaki ◽

Tofael Ahamed ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Carbon Dioxide ◽

Life Cycle Assessment ◽

Life Cycle ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Production System ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽

Food Production ◽

Carbon Dioxide Co2 ◽

Food Production System

Traditional Cambodian food has higher nutrient balances and is environmentally sustainable compared to conventional diets. However, there is a lack of knowledge and evidence on nutrient intake and the environmental greenness of traditional food at different age distributions. The relationship between nutritional intake and environmental impact can be evaluated using carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from agricultural production based on life cycle assessment (LCA). The objective of this study was to estimate the CO2 equivalent (eq) emissions from the traditional Cambodian diet using LCA, starting at each agricultural production phase. A one-year food consumption scenario with the traditional diet was established. Five breakfast (BF1–5) and seven lunch and dinner (LD1–7) food sets were consumed at the same rate and compared using LCA. The results showed that BF1 and LD2 had the lowest and highest emissions (0.3 Mt CO2 eq/yr and 1.2 Mt CO2 eq/yr, respectively). The food calories, minerals, and vitamins met the recommended dietary allowance. The country’s existing food production system generates CO2 emissions of 9.7 Mt CO2 eq/yr, with the proposed system reducing these by 28.9% to 6.9 Mt CO2 eq/yr. The change in each food item could decrease emissions depending on the type and quantity of the food set, especially meat and milk consumption.

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Developing a Hybrid Optimization Algorithm for Optimal Allocation of Renewable DGs in Distribution Network

Clean Technologies ◽

10.3390/cleantechnol3020023 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 409-423

Author(s):

Ayman Awad ◽

Hussein Abdel-Mawgoud ◽

Salah Kamel ◽

Abdalla A. Ibrahim ◽

Francisco Jurado

Keyword(s):

Power Systems ◽

Distribution System ◽

Optimal Allocation ◽

Hybrid Technique ◽

Radial Distribution System ◽

Hybrid Optimization Algorithm ◽

Power Quality Improvement ◽

Sine Cosine Algorithm ◽

Optimized Allocation ◽

The Impact

Distributed generation (DG) is becoming a prominent key spot for research in recent years because it can be utilized in emergency/reserve plans for power systems and power quality improvement issues, besides its drastic impact on the environment as a greenhouse gas (GHG) reducer. For maximizing the benefits from such technology, it is crucial to identify the best size and location for DG that achieves the required goal of installing it. This paper presents an investigation of the optimized allocation of DG in different modes using a proposed hybrid technique, the tunicate swarm algorithm/sine-cosine algorithm (TSA/SCA). This investigation is performed on an IEEE-69 Radial Distribution System (RDS), where the impact of such allocation on the system is evaluated by NEPLAN software.

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Irrigation.

10.1079/hc.34626997.20210027310 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Lynette Morgan

Keyword(s):

Fresh Water ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Food Production ◽

Crop Production ◽

Cultivated Land ◽

Plant Life ◽

Total Food ◽

Global Issue ◽

Growing Medium ◽

Increasing Demand

Abstract Crop production in many regions has been reliant on irrigation for almost as long as man has been cultivating plant life. For 6000 years, irrigation has ranked among the most powerful tools of human advancement (Postel, 1999), and by the start of the 21st century no less than 75% of the world's fresh water was in use for agricultural production (Levy and Coleman, 2014). In 2012, twenty percent of total cultivated land was under irrigation, contributing forty percent of the total food production worldwide, this represented 275 million hectares under actual irrigation with a total of 324 million hectares equipped for irrigation (FAO, 2016). Irrigation, which can be defined as 'the artificial application of water to land, soil or other growing medium for the purposes of crop growth', has become a global issue in more recent times as the increasing demand for fresh water has seen problems develop with water scarcity, quality issues and conflict over usage.

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Food Power and the Global Supermarket

Supermarket USA ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300232691.003.0007 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 178-209

Author(s):

Shane Hamilton

Keyword(s):

Cold War ◽

Food Production ◽

Linseed Oil ◽

Food Chains ◽

Development Projects ◽

Retail Chain ◽

The World ◽

Private Corporations ◽

The 1960S ◽

Global Food

This chapter discusses how U.S. transnational agribusiness corporations demonstrated U.S. farm and food power to the world from the 1960s into the 1980s. In earlier decades of the Farms Race, U.S. farmers were called upon to feed the hungry world as a counter-revolutionary project with a humanitarian veneer. By the late 1970s, politicians and businessmen were increasingly declaring their intent to rewrite the rules of global food production and trade on entirely profit-driven terms. Building on Cold War-inspired modernization and development projects initiated in the 1940s–1960s, U.S.-based transnational agribusinesses in the 1970s–1990s—including the International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC), the former linseed-oil manufacturer turned global commodities giant Archer Daniels Midland, and the Ozarks-based retail chain Walmart—constructed a world in which private corporations, including supermarkets, emerged as the primary institutional mechanisms for regulating and coordinating global food chains.

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Agroecology in Canada: Towards an Integration of Agroecological Practice, Movement, and Science

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10093299 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 3299 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Marney Isaac ◽

S. Isakson ◽

Bryan Dale ◽

Charles Levkoe ◽

Sarah Hargreaves ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Social Movements ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Food Policy ◽

Settler Colonialism ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Current State ◽

Ecological Problems

This article surveys the current state of agroecology in Canada, giving particular attention to agroecological practices, the related social movements, and the achievements of agroecological science. In each of these realms, we find that agroecology emerges as a response to the various social and ecological problems associated with the prevailing industrial model of agricultural production that has long been promoted in the country under settler colonialism. Although the prevalence and prominence of agroecology is growing in Canada, its presence is still small and the support for its development is limited. We provide recommendations to achieve a more meaningful integration of agroecology in Canadian food policy and practice.

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Food security issues in the economic security system of the Republic of Armenia

BIO Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/bioconf/20213608004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

pp. 08004

Author(s):

M.G. Manucharyan

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Rural Communities ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Food Production ◽

Food System ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Economic Security ◽

Security Level ◽

Poverty Level ◽

The Republic

One of the most important components of national security is food security. The country's food security is mainly ensured through the development of agriculture, food production and food import systems. The main problems of the development of the agri-food system of the republic were the increase of the level of provision of the population with food, the increase of the level of economic protection of the country, which, first of all, requires an increase of agricultural production to provide the population with locally produced food products, raw materials to the processing industry as much as possible, as well as to increase export volumes. The main goal of the research is to develop and outline the ways of further development of the RA food self-sufficiency based on the development of agricultural production. Based on the analysis of the current situation in the agricultural market, to propose a set of economic development measures, which will contribute to the increase of the food security level, the development of the agri-food system, the reduction of the poverty level of the rural communities. The research substantiated the preconditions for further growth of agricultural production, as a result of comprehensive studies and analyzes, the main directions of improving food production and increasing efficiency were outlined, which conditioned the scientific novelty.

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Role of Cooperative Societies in Boosting Agricultural Production & Entrepreneurship in the Kebbi State of Nigeria.

NICE Research Journal ◽

10.51239/nrjss.v0i0.27 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 234-351

Author(s):

Kamelshewer Lohana Et al.,

Keyword(s):

Local Government ◽

Sample Size ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Null Hypothesis ◽

Food Production ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Added Value ◽

Cluster Sampling ◽

Survey Results

The study Assess the Role & contributions of cooperative societies in boosting agricultural production & Entrepreneurship in the Kebbi State of Nigeria. A total of 120 sample size was used for the study. Cluster sampling technique was used to obtaining information from sample respondents (members of farmers’ cooperative societies). Sixty (60) questionnaires were administered to sixty respondents, each in both Zuru and Yauri Local Government Areas. Data collected was analysed and interpreted using simple percentage and descriptive methods. The major conclusions drawn from this research were: survey results, regarding effectiveness of cooperative societies in improving agricultural production & Entrepreneurship, have shown that 33.3% and 25% of the respondents in Zuru and Yauri Local Government Areas reported promoting farmers’ participation in agriculture, while 25% and 46% agreed to boost agricultural production in the study areas. About 36.6% and 35% believed in the effectiveness of cooperative societies in increasing food production. Sample respondents in the two Local Government Areas 5% and 3.3% reported all of the above indicators increase the effectiveness of cooperatives to agriculture. Survey results regarding the role of cooperatives in boosting Entrepreneurship in the study areas shows that 75% Zuru 88.3% Yauri agreed that cooperatives have added value to boosting Agric production & Entrepreneurship and only 15% and 11.6% did not agree with the above opinion. Many problems were identified that affects the smooth functioning of cooperatives and solutions for addressing the problems were recommended. Therefore it was concluded that Null Hypothesis HO is rejected and Alternate Hypothesis HA is accepted.

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Balancing production and culture: Sustainable agriculture in the Amazon

10.31235/osf.io/etz7j ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Omar Gandarilla ◽

Giovanni A Carosso ◽

Mohammed A Mostajo-Radji

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Food Production ◽

Local Communities ◽

Sustainable Food ◽

Sustainable Food Production ◽

Indigenous Groups ◽

Transgenic Seeds ◽

The World ◽

Single Exception

Sustainable food production in developing countries is challenging, as it requires balancing scalability with respect for local culture and traditions. Bolivia represents a particularly interesting example; with over 36 recognized indigenous groups encompassing over 70% of the country’s population in a relatively small territory, Bolivia is considered one of the most diverse countries in the world (Ferreira et al., 2019). Agriculture in Bolivia employs over 5% of the country’s population and represents over 14% of its GDP. Yet, the introduction of new agribusiness approaches has often been met with resistance by the local communities. For example, the use of transgenic seeds in Bolivia is forbidden by law, with a single exception in soybean production (Avila and Izquierdo, 2006). As result, Bolivia is at a disadvantage in relation to its neighbors in agricultural production. In addition, high costs of transport and export of produce due to the landlocked nature of the country, compounded by logistic difficulties of exporting through a third country, highlight the need of policies that facilitate a larger and more efficient food production.

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