scholarly journals 3. Institutional Support Required To Integrate Small Farmers For Livestock Commodity Value Chain-A Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
Taliyil P Sethumadhavan
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
Safety Knowledge ◽  
Consumer Tastes

Recent reports reveal that in the globalised era farming will move towards meat and milk production from traditional rice and grain agriculture in line with the changing consumer tastes. The joint report by Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome and the Paris based organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) of 34 leading world economies contained price and production forecasts to 2023 revealed that world meat production will have gone up by 58 million tones with developing countries making up 80 percent of increase. Report highlights that livestock production is projected to grow at higher rates than crop production. Moreover animal protein sources are easiest way through which protein malnutrition can be corrected easily. Since the commodity value of livestock products are high when compared to agriculture commodities in the coming years livestock products will the focus area for augmenting GDP in Agriculture sector. So institutional support are required for increasing production, productivity, food security, food safety, knowledge dissemination and services to achieve these objectives.

Water-Reform Strategies in Iran's Agricultural Sector

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Haghiri ◽  
Mohammad Karimkoshteh
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Reform Strategies ◽  
Following Instructions ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Water Reform ◽  
Country Specific

AbstractProviding sufficient water for various uses, in particular the agriculture sector, is one of the important problems that Iran faces. Following instructions of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Iran started considering its waterreform strategies to avoid water crises. No unique solutions can be drawn from other nations' experience since water crisis is a country-specific problem. Water-reform strategies are important, particularly when the multioriented purpose of sustainability in Iran's agricultural sector is of interest as well. The pros and cons of water-reform strategies are discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Sustainability-Oriented Innovations in Food Waste Management Technology

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 210
Author(s):  
Carlos Martin-Rios ◽  
Anastasia Hofmann ◽  
Naomi Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Food Waste ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Third Party ◽  
World Population ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization

Food is essential to our survival, yet the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that about 820 million people were undernourished in 2018. In this context, food waste generation is a particularly salient issue. Wasting food means missing opportunities to feed the growing world population and consuming scarce resources, such as land, water and energy used in the production, processing, distribution and consumption of food. Firms in HORECA (hospitality, restaurant and catering) represent a considerable share of total food waste and, more importantly, are characterized by an overall low sense of awareness about the sustainability-oriented innovation opportunities and challenges of minimizing food waste. This article draws on an in-depth case study to explore the use of technological advancements in downstream value chain. This case study draws on a tech startup providing services for HORECA companies to address a new way for companies to solve the food waste challenge. Adopting technological innovations to quantify and minimize wastage via collaborations with third-party companies can be a strategic and cost-effective way to supplement a company’s open innovation activities.

scholarly journals DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE AGRI-FOOD SECTOR – OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

2018 ◽  
Vol XX (2) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kosior
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Productivity And Competitiveness

The aim of the paper is to discuss the major opportunities and challenges that emerge in the agri-food sector as a result of digitization processes. Digital technologies with Big Data and the Internet of Things are widely considered promising new tools for both increasing productivity and competitiveness in the agri-food sector and ensuring a more sustainable use of resources. Knowledge and insights derived from ever-increasing volumes and a variety of digital data may help to optimize farm production processes, improve risk management, predict market trends and enhance strategic decision-making capabilities. Yet, advanced data analytics has also the disruptive power to reshape the whole string of markets within the agriculture value chain. Digitization may fundamentally change the relations between technology and input suppliers, farms, traders, processing units, retailers and consumers. The first evidence shows that farm data markets suffer from specific drawbacks and limitations which may constrain the transformative potential of Big Data in the food and agriculture sector. The major concerns raised relate to farm data ownership and privacy issues, market power of major agriculture technology providers and uneven distribution of benefits accruing from digitization.

scholarly journals Optimal set of agri-environmental indicators for the agricultural sector of Czech Republic

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 2171-2181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiří Hřebíček ◽  
Oldřich Trenz ◽  
Eliška Vernerová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Environmental Indicators ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Optimal Set

Current trends of agri-environmental indicators evaluation (i.e., the measurement of environmental performance) and farm reporting are discussed in the paper focusing on the agriculture sector. From the perspective of agricultural policy, there are two broad decisions to make: which indicators to recommend and promote to farmers, and which indicators to collect to assist in agriculture policy-making. We introduce several general approaches for indicators to collect to assist in policy-making (European Union, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) in the first part of our paper and given the differences in decision-making problems faced by these sets of decision makers. We continue in the second part of the paper with a proposal of indicators to recommend and promote to farmers in the Czech Republic.

scholarly journals A global meat tax: from big data to a double dividend

2018 ◽  
Vol 64 (No. 6) ◽  
pp. 256-264
Author(s):  
Chloupkova Jarka ◽  
Svendsen Gert Tinggaard ◽  
Zdechovsky Tomas
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Double Dividend ◽  
Meat Production ◽  
Negative Externalities ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Nutritious Food ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
The Right

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) emphasizes the right of everyone to have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food in its Rome Declaration. This article suggests how this noble FAO goal can be achieved. We suggest that a first step could be the introduction of a global meat tax, where the size of the negative externalities from meat production could be calculated based on foresight and big data. Applying the tool of a global meat tax will lead to a “double dividend” as negative externalities are reduced and at the same time huge tax revenues will be generated which could be used to make further steps in the direction of achieving the stated FAO goal in the Rome Declaration.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE AGRICULTURAL MARKET OF UKRAINE AT THE EXPENSE OF TRUFFLE EXPORTS TO EU COUNTRIES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svitlana Maschenko ◽  
◽  
Liudmyla Tiveriadska ◽  
Daria Vydai ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Land Market ◽  
Eu Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
The Eu

The article provides economic indicators of the EU and Ukraine, in particular the share of agriculture and indicators of food exports and imports. The changes that took place have been analyzed in the land market and in general in the market of agricultural products of Ukraine, and it was found that during 2015-2019 there was a negative trend of decreasing economic efficiency of agricultural production. It is concluded that the level of profitability of production of horticultural, grain and legume crops tends to decrease. It was found that the structure of exports of Ukrainian products is dominated by crop products, and the share of livestock products is insignificant. Noted that the increase in the value of exports of agricultural goods over the past three years is positive and the most profitable now will be the export of truffles from Ukraine to EU countries. According to FAOSTAT (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), namely the indicators of profitability and production of truffles, a conclusion was made on the competitiveness of Ukrainian truffles in the EU market. It has been determined that the agricultural sector activity has positive and negative moments in the territories of Ukraine. It has been concluded that the Ukrainian government has to focus on a policy aimed at balancing the tax burden, introducing certification for the European market.

scholarly journals Molecular and genetic bases of heat stress responses in crop plants and breeding for increased resilience and productivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (13) ◽  
pp. 3780-3802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michela Janni ◽  
Mariolina Gullì ◽  
Elena Maestri ◽  
Marta Marmiroli ◽  
Babu Valliyodan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Cultivated Plants ◽  
Natural Genetic Variation ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Review Reports ◽  
Molecular Bases ◽  
Genetic Bases

Abstract To ensure the food security of future generations and to address the challenge of the ‘no hunger zone’ proposed by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), crop production must be doubled by 2050, but environmental stresses are counteracting this goal. Heat stress in particular is affecting agricultural crops more frequently and more severely. Since the discovery of the physiological, molecular, and genetic bases of heat stress responses, cultivated plants have become the subject of intense research on how they may avoid or tolerate heat stress by either using natural genetic variation or creating new variation with DNA technologies, mutational breeding, or genome editing. This review reports current understanding of the genetic and molecular bases of heat stress in crops together with recent approaches to creating heat-tolerant varieties. Research is close to a breakthrough of global relevance, breeding plants fitter to face the biggest challenge of our time.

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