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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.
- James Rogers
The supply chain is dead: Why we must build a ‘living supply...
- James Rogers
- 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...
UBC researchers share small steps that can make a big collective impact. Grocery store food prices have skyrocketed. But what exactly drives the cost of food before it hits the shelves? And what can be done to get less expensive food on our tables, while making the systems involved more sustainable? Dr.
Mar 30, 2021 · We watched as 2020 unleashed volatility on our food and agribusiness supply chains. In the fresh produce supply chain, disruptions impacted the seed industry, growers, shippers, wholesalers and retailers.
Mar 5, 2021 · Our complicated global supply chains couldn’t adapt fast enough to our changing realities. To mend our damaged relationship with food, there are critical questions we need to answer: how do we produce sufficient food that’s healthy for both the people who produce it and the people who eat it?
Jun 1, 2022 · USDA will make investments to address the limited processing, distribution, storage, and aggregation capacity for a variety of food sectors, including high equipment costs, lack of competition, and limited supply chain and value chain coordination.
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Jun 4, 2022 · With the world’s population expected to climb to 10 billion by 2050, we will need to produce more food while confronting climate change.
