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

Changes Challenges crisis

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

Danger or opportunity ?

Case IH Agriculture

Precision agriculture …VRT

Multi-spectral sensor

MicaSense

MicaSense

https://www.pinterest.com/explore/precision-agriculture/

Change: carbohydrate nutrition security

Key points: GMS strengths & opportunities

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

“In the long history of humankind (and animal

kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and

improvise most effectively have prevailed.”

Charles Darwin