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Dec 1, 2023 · Food supply chain design and management involves controlling food products and processes simultaneously along the entire food supply chain “from farm to fork” in terms of quality (1), safety (2), sustainability (3), and logistical efficiency (4).
It's a platitude that we've all heard dozens of times, whether to justify our treatment of other species or simply to celebrate a carnivorous lifestyle: humans are the top of the food chain.
- Regulating Plants and Outlawing Tradition
- Diversity For Climate Resilience
- 'Neocolonial Agriculture'
- 'Let The People Feed Themselves'
Major producers of genetically modified and bioengineered seeds, like Bayer and Corteva, strictly limit how farmers can use the varietiesthey sell. Usually, buyers must sign agreements that prohibit them from saving seeds from their crops to exchange or resow the following year. Most countries only allow patents — exclusive ownership rights that we...
Karine Peschard, a researcher into biotechnology, food and seed sovereignty at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, says this is problematic in a warming world. Changing climatic conditions mean farmers' carefully attuned agricultural systems are thrown out of whack. Particular crops need particular conditions, a...
There is no legal obligation to join the UPOV. But countries including the United States, Canada, Switzerland, Japan, as well as the member states of the European Union, are among the nations using bilateral and regional trade agreements to pressure countries in the Global South, such as Zimbabwe and India, to join. Critics say imposing uniform rul...
Mayet is calling for exceptions to seed legislation to allow farmers the autonomy to preserve the Indigenous agriculture that is "the bedrock to ensure ecological integrity, sustainability of nature, biodiversity, landscapes and ecosystems." She's not alone. Around the world, food sovereignty movementssuch as the transnational La Via Campesina, the...
The most widely used and comprehensive data on food supply and consumption is published by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This data is annually available and is updated by the FAO, extending back to 1961.
2 days ago · This Perspective proposes six areas under food and nutrition security, just sustainability and food cultural diversity to help ensure equity is set as a priority.
Jul 2, 2021 · The empty grocery shelves and miles-long food bank queues we have seen during the COVID-19 pandemic have underscored the fragility of the highly centralized, “just-in-time” global food supply chain on which we all depend.
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Aug 12, 2022 · Our supply chain for perishable items, such as food, has shown to be particularly vulnerable. Building living supply chains by adding time to the supply chain equation and adopting industry-wide initiatives can help eliminate the current risks in the system.
