PLENARY SESSION 2 FOOD VALUE CHAINS: STATE OF PLAY, OPPORTUNITIES, AND CHALLENGES
Discussion Poon Kasemsap Hort IL Regional Center at Kasetsart University
Food value chains: State of play, opportunities, and challenges
• Case studies
on Food Safety and Quality Assurance on:
– Low-input rice
– Livestock
– Fruits and vegetables
Key points: Changes
• Demand
• Supply
• Price
• Increase in cross-border trade some more risk
• More PPP
• Others
Low-input rice
• Value added:
- Wholesalers & Retailers/Exporters > Farmers & Millers
- Shorter chain more added value to Farmers (Vietnam)
• Quality higher price ?
• Value chain efficiency
• Risk management, safety & quality standards + assurances
• Value addition, branding and marketing • Investment (PPP, infrastructure, …)
Livestock
• Increase in cross-border trade more risks
• Risks for the spread important pathogens – for animals and trade, such as FMD virus
– for human health, such as pathogenic strains of Escherichia Coli.
• Risk management: surveillance & traceability
• The study findings indicated a number of key areas:
(1) policy change … (mechanisms to improve the coordination + share info, etc)
(2) institutional capacity building
(3) investment to regulate cross-border livestock movement & reduce the risk of FMD spread (such as traceability systems and DCZs)
Fruits and vegetables
• ASEAN: Why so little F&V trade ?
• Greater market access needed. – Tariffs & technical barriers + administrative procedures
• Food safety and Quality assurance – Innovations: Farm extension system + ICT innovation + Traceability + Packaging
– Value added products
– Complete control over the whole chain + Marketing
• International standard
Other limiting factors ?
Key points for further analysis & discussion
• Rice, cattles, F&V … different strategies
• Strengthening value chains
• Reduce risk (… increase safety)
• Increase value
• Increase quality (standard, control, assurance, …)
Food value Chains web ? Trend: shorter chain!
Key points for further analysis & discussion
• More changes !!!
• Emerging GMS strengths & weaknesses ?
• Opportunities
• Challenges
Key points: More changes
• Climate changes
• Disruptive technologies:
– Advance genomics & phenomics, gene editing
– Renewable energy & storage
– Advance robotics, artificial intelligence
– Precision agriculture, remote sensing
Future opportunity ?
John Deere expects that the electric motors will require much less maintenance than a diesel engine. Two 150 kW electric motors for a total power output of up to 300kW (402hp).
Dec 5, 2016
Key points for further analysis & discussion
• Value creations + differentiations
• Standards: effective and harmonize (not Market access barriers !)
– Regional +/ international standards ?
– For the whole value chains (GAP, PRA, PPQ, APHIS, FS & QA, …)
• Guidelines and best practices …
• Capacity building …
• Structure (ASEAN FSN, INFOSAN, …GMS Food Safety Authority?)
Food value chains: State of play, opportunities, and challenges
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth,
while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with
a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer