The Value of Domestic Supply Chains in an Age of Global Food Production: Producers, Wholesalers, and Urban Consumers in Colombia

Author(s):

Terry Roberts

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Supply ◽

Food Production ◽

Production Systems ◽

Past History ◽

Phosphate Fertilizer ◽

Global Food ◽

Global Food Supply

Since its early rudimentary forms, phosphate fertilizer has developed in step with our understanding of successful food production systems. Recognized as essential to life, the responsible use P in agriculture remains key to food security.

Food security in the 21st century and in the role of biotechnology

foresight ◽

10.1108/14636689910802304 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 1 (5) ◽

pp. 399-412 ◽

Author(s):

Per Pinstrup‐Andersen ◽

Marc J. Cohen

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Food Security ◽

Food Production ◽

Supply Side ◽

Adequate Diet ◽

The World ◽

Productivity Gains ◽

Global Population ◽

Although global food production has consistently kept pace with population growth, the gap between food production and demand in certain parts of the world is likely to remain. More than 800 million people in developing countries lack access to a minimally adequate diet. Continued productivity gains are essential on the supply side, because global population will increase by 73 million people a year over the next two decades. In this article we assess the current global food situation, look at the prospects through to the year 2020, and outline the policies needed to achieve food security for all. Emphasis is on the role that agricultural biotechnology might play in reaching this goal.

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 ◽

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.

Buzz City: Bee-Builder's Toolkit

10.32920/ryerson.14655405 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Ryan Sisourath

Keyword(s):

Food Production ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Urban Site ◽

Bee Pollination ◽

Urban Green Spaces ◽

The Public ◽

The Public Sphere ◽

Major Factors ◽

Global Food ◽

Global Food Supply

Bee populations are directly linked to the sustainability of our environment, as healthy bees are required for viable food production. Habitat loss and fragmentation from rapid urban development are some of the major factors that have led to an alarming decline in recent bee populations. Without bee pollination, our global food supply would diminish immensely leading to shortages and crises that threaten our food security. This thesis will explore architectural strategies to create dedicated bee habitats within the urban realm. The designs will encompass the crafting of a bee builder’s toolkit, which consist of bee-friendly components that can be adapted to various urban site conditions. It will look at opportunities for integrating bee-friendly habitats within the public sphere. These will create networks of pollination corridors that connect existing fragmented urban green spaces. This strategy aims to strengthen pollination and pollinator health while stimulating public engagement and awareness of the environment.

Crop losses due to diseases and their implications for global food production losses and food security

Food Security ◽

10.1007/s12571-012-0200-5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

pp. 519-537 ◽

Cited By ~ 302

Author(s):

Serge Savary ◽

Andrea Ficke ◽

Jean-Noël Aubertot ◽

Clayton Hollier

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Production ◽

Crop Losses ◽

Global Food ◽

Production Losses

Desperately seeking happy chickens: producer dynamics and consumer politics in quality agricultural supply chains

International Journal of Social Economics ◽

10.1108/ijse-01-2020-0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Elizabeth Carter

Keyword(s):

Supply Chains ◽

Peer Review ◽

Food Production ◽

Food Systems ◽

Political Action ◽

Food Products ◽

Political Organization ◽

Short Supply ◽

Content Type ◽

Convention Theory

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand why the quality markets are expanding in some areas of food production, while struggling in others. Across agricultural markets in advanced industrialized economies, there are movements toward quality production and consumption. The author argues that the quality turn in beer, coffee, wine and other transformed artisanal food production are fundamentally different from the quality movements in primary food products. The heart of that difference lies in the nature of the supply chain advantages of transformed versus primary agricultural products.Design/methodology/approachThe author applies convention theory to explain the dynamics within transformed agricultural quality markets. In these producer-dominant markets, networks of branded producers shape consumer notions of product quality, creating competitive quality feedback loops. The author contrasts this with the consumer-dominant markets for perishable foods such as produce, eggs, dairy and meat. Here, politically constructed short supply chains play a central role in building quality food systems.FindingsThe emergence of quality in primary food products is linked to the strength of local political organization, and consumers have a greater role in shaping quality in these markets.Originality/valueQuality beer, coffee, wine and other transformed products can emerge without active political intervention, whereas quality markets for perishable foods are the outcome of political action.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-01-2020-0001.

A food crime perspective

A Handbook of Food Crime ◽

10.1332/policypress/9781447336013.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 11-26

Author(s):

Allison Gray

Keyword(s):

Food Production ◽

Food Systems ◽

Critical Criminology ◽

Green Criminology ◽

Criminal Behaviour ◽

Social Harm ◽

A food crime perspective involves an evaluation of the (lack of) criminal, legal, and regulatory organisation, and the insufficient, ineffective, or lack of enforcement, which surrounds the criminal behaviour and social harms produced within systems of food production, processing, marketing, distribution, selling, consumption, and disposal, victimising (often simultaneously) humans, animals, and the environment. Married to a social harm approach, and grounded in the views of critical criminology, green criminology, and radical victimology, a food crime perspective problematises the practices and contexts of food systems as immoral, harmful, and criminal. This chapter introduces this concept of a food crime perspective in three parts. First, it recognises the study of food must be contextualised in contemporary global food systems. Second, it situates a food crime perspective among other (sub)theories of criminology. Finally, it concludes with an argument why it is important to think criminologically about food.

Michael Elliott CBE. 30 September 1924 — 17 October 2007

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.2016.0018 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 62 ◽

pp. 109-123 ◽

Author(s):

John Pickett

Keyword(s):

Food Production ◽

Insect Pests ◽

World Health ◽

Individual Contribution ◽

Pyrethroid Insecticides ◽

New Class ◽

Structure Activity ◽

The World ◽

Health Organization ◽

Michael Elliott was the leader of work at Rothamsted that invented and subsequently commercially developed the pyrethroids, a new class of insecticides. Michael made probably the greatest individual contribution to the control of insect pests that not only constrain global food production but also affect the health of ourselves and our livestock. In one of the first pioneering structure–activity relationship studies, Michael led the multidisciplinary team that invented the major pyrethroid insecticides bioresmethrin, permethrin, cypermethrin and deltamethrin. In the 1980s these represented two-thirds of the global pyrethroid market; at that time pyrethroids captured more than 25% of the total insecticide market and were used on 33 million hectares of crops (Wirtz et al . 2009). In 2002 deltamethrin was the world's largest-selling pyrethroid, with annual sales worth $208 million (information from Cropnosis Ltd). In terms of human health, in 2009 it was estimated that pyrethroid-treated bednets significantly decreased the number of deaths due to malaria among children under five years of age by about one-fifth as well as reducing all incidents of malaria, and in 2011 the World Health Organization recommended its vastly expanded use. Reference Wirtz, K., Bala, S., Amann, A. & Elbert, A. 2009 A promise extended—future roles of pyrethroids in agriculture. Bayer CropSci. J. 62 , 145–158.