Download or read book Food Loss in International Trade written by Sahara Sahara and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The knowledge of the drivers of food losses in international trade and possible mitigation strategies is still limited. This study focused on the prevalence and drivers of food loss in Indonesian tuna exported to the European Union, the United States, and Japan. The results showed that various existing Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) are in place to ensure food safety. However, standards and regulations differ significantly among trade partners, and are somewhat more strict than international standards, leading to higher rejection levels. Food loss is evident in the cross-border tuna trade as 20 to 30 per cent of Indonesian tuna is rejected annually. Drivers of food loss are classified as micro-level drivers consisting of post-harvest damages, lack of infrastructure and facilities; improper sanitation and hygiene in the processing unit, inability to fulfil food safety standards, and socialization of the standards and regulation. Macro-level drivers are related to the increasing use of NTMs, varying and relatively stricter food safety standards, transparency issues, trading procedures, and institutional factors. At the micro-level, it is important to improve tuna export quality infrastructure and boost the capacity of actors in the value chains to implement best practices. Increasing the socialization about the food safety standard and import regulations and international standards (particularly Codex Alimentarius) is also needed. Meanwhile, NTM streamlining and improving transparency with national trade portals and help desk services are also important to facilitate trade and reduce food loss.

Download or read book Food Loss in International Trade in the Asia Pacific Region written by Sheikh Morshed Jahan and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global food supply chain experiences a loss of approximately one-third of the food produced, making food loss in international trade a significant threat to food and nutrition security and economic loss. Bangladesh, a major producer of vegetables and fruits, faces constraints such as post-harvest management, inadequate transportation and storage facilities, limited access to quality seeds, and stringent quality standards imposed by importing countries. The country also faces non-tariff measures and other obstacles to trade, with the agri-food products sector being the most affected. The lack of cold storage systems and specialized transportation facilities, inadequate port facilities, and weak trade governance are the main causes of food loss in the fruit and vegetable trade. Good agricultural practices, post-harvest management practices, and value chain efficiencies are lacking, resulting in a significant amount of food loss. To mitigate food loss, compliance with good agricultural practices and SPS measures, effective post-harvest practices, and a vapor heat treatment facility, packaging, and cool chain are essential. The government of Bangladesh should also incentivize private sector investment, ease regulatory requirements, and develop a cohesive export-oriented institutional ecosystem to reduce food loss in international trade.

Download or read book Demystifying Impact of Food Losses in International Trade of Food Products written by Surendar Singh and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food loss remains one of the central points of collective action around the world, as reflected in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, but this issue is far more concerning for the developing countries. Several studies highlight the level and stages of food losses. However, there is limited work on understanding the food losses in the context of international trade. With ever-increasing volume of international trade of food products and understanding the levels and stages of food losses, this study aims to understand food losses in international trade from the context of developing countries. The study is based on a primary survey of three largest traded food products of India and examines the nature, causes, level and stages of food losses. It maps-out the entire journey of international movements of exported as well as imported food products, from the stage of packing to the stage of delivery at the last tradable point(s), excluding the final retail. The findings of the study are of immense relevance to developing countries in understanding the food losses and undertaking the policy, infrastructural and operational action(s) to reduce the food losses. Based on extensive consultation with traders, it was found that up to 19.5% of food is lost in India's international food supply chain, in particularly in the import-country (trade partner) food supply chain stage. The study suggests the generic as well as specific measures for exporting & importing firms, logistical agencies and institutions, and policy level regulatory actions for public agencies. These include capacity development on multiple levels, incorporation of good manufacturing practices, process improvements among agencies involved, as well as deeper understanding of the various factors leading to food losses in international trade.

Download or read book International Trade and Food Security written by Michael Ewing-Chow and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food security is one of the greatest challenges of our time. The food price crisis of 2008 exposed the vulnerabilities of the global food system. Governments across Asia acerbated the crisis by imposing export restrictions based on a policy of self-sufficiency. This book assesses whether self-sufficiency is an adequate response to the food security challenges we face. Pricing volatility drives isolationism at a time when climate change and increasingly uncertain weather patterns make it difficult for any single nation to guarantee adequate food production for itself. Through a collection of commissioned studies which draw upon the experience of leading experts and scholars in trade, investment, law, economics, and food policy, this book analyses the impact of this trend on the most essential crop in the Asian region - rice. It suggests that food security policy should be reconceptualised: from the national to the regional and even the global level. It also provides its own proposals as to how this new paradigm of collective food security should be understood and developed. The book calls for a new conversation in the region, acknowledging that the challenges we face are global and the solutions must be found in collective action. This state-of-the-art study will appeal to lawyers, economists and political scientists, as well as food security specialists by providing expert analyses and enlightening solutions for the future.

Download or read book Documentation for the COVID 19 food trade policy tracker Tracking government responses affecting global food markets during the COVID 19 crisis written by Laborde Debucquet, David and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the COVID-19 crisis, some governments have implemented export restrictions and other trade policy measures to secure their food supply. This behavior can increase global food prices, with consequences including the exacerbation of hunger and income losses for producers in export-restrict-ing countries. Intergovernmental organizations and other actors need current information on food trade policy to curb detrimental reactive policy and enable cooperation. To address this need, we provide the COVID-19 Food Trade Policy Tracker. Gathering data from sources including the media, national gov-ernments, expert input, the OECD, and the IMF, we provide up-to-date information on food trade poli-cies implemented during the COVID-19 crisis and the likely magnitude of their effects.

Download or read book Food Loss and Food Waste written by Michael Blakeney and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global food insecurity is a growing issue. At a time when the world’s population is increasing and agricultural production is challenged by climate change, it is estimated that around a third of the food produced globally is lost or wasted. This book examines the problem of food loss and waste (FLW) and the policies that could be enacted to remedy this fundamental global concern.

Download or read book Current Studies in International Trade InTraders 2021 written by Ferhat ÇITAK and published by Hiperlink Eğitim İletişim Yayın Gıda Sanayi ve Pazarlama Tic. Ltd. Şti.. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy sources have always been an essential part of world economies. Availability of energy resources has a vital role for a country’s economic growth and financial development. Contrary to fossil fuels, many countries have the potential to power their economies by renewable energy sources. This study aims to investigate the effects of different energy resources on the financial development of countries. In particular, the paper analyzes the impact of renewable, non-renewable, and nuclear energy resources on the financial development of 28 countries with nuclear energy reactors for 2001-2019. Empirical results show that natural gas and renewable energy resources have a positive and significant impact on financial development of a country.

Download or read book International Trade Economic Crisis and the Sustainable Development Goals written by Tonmoy Chatterjee and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing international trade as a path for achieving the SDGs, this curated collection envisions a more equitable and sustainable world, one where the benefits of international trade are fairly distributed, where economic crises are met with resilience and innovation and where the SDGs are not just aspirations but lived realities.

Download or read book Global Trade and Food Safety written by John Sullivan Wilson and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How food safety is addressed in the world trade system is critical for developing countries that continue to rely on agricultural exports. An analysis shows that adopting a worldwide standard of a toxin affecting nuts and grains could increase trade in these commodities by $38 billion compaired with levels under today's widely divergent national standards.

Download or read book Trade Food Diet and Health written by Corinna Hawkes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global shift towards overweight and obese populations has ledto a significant rise in diet-related chronic illness. This bookexamines the role global food trade has played in that shift,looking carefully at how the trade of food across national borders,international and regional trade agreements, the process of tradeand investment liberalization, and the growth of transnational foodcorporations affects what people eat and, by implication, theirhealth. An international team of editors has brought together aprestigious group of contributors who present a critical analysisof the linkages between trade, food and diet in different domains.Between them, the multidisciplinary group present a balancedperspective on the opportunities and risks trade poses for dietarytrends and offer a practical analysis of the policy optionsavailable to address this growing global concern. An international multidisciplinary team of authors Detailed look at the issues followed by practical policyanalysis A comprehensive review of an important global issue Academics, researchers and practitioners in the field of publichealth, especially those concerned with nutrition, obesity andchronic disease, will find this book an enlightening andfascinating read. Social scientists, policy makers, trade analystsand food industry professionals will equally gain much from thisinnovative approach to the subject.

Download or read book Food loss and waste and the right to adequate food Making the connection written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Discussion paper explores the relationship between food loss and waste (FLW) and the right to adequate food. It focuses on the need to develop sustainable global consumption and production systems to contribute to the realization of the right to adequate food while it argues for a human rights-based approach to tackle FLW. As such, it presents key notions of FLW and expands on their impact for the realization of the right to adequate food. Simultaneously, it looks into the different components of the right to adequate food and offers ways through which its legal obligations could help processes and initiatives aimed at reducing FLW. The Discussion paper argues for a more holistic approach to reducing FLW and guaranteeing the right of each person to feed herself or himself in dignity. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) wishes to thank the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) for its financial support, which made this publication possible.

Download or read book Food Wastage Footprint written by and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2013 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study provides a worldwide account of the environmental footprint of food wastage along the food supply chain, focusing on impacts on climate, water, land and biodiversity, as well as economic quantification based on producer prices ..."--Introduction.

Download or read book Reducing Impacts of Food Loss and Waste written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as malnutrition in the form of hunger and obesity affect the health and well-being of millions of people worldwide, a significant amount of food is lost or wasted every day, in every country, and at every stage in the supply chain from the farm to the household. According to a 2011 estimate by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), about one-third of food produced is lost or wasted globally. Beyond quantity estimates, however, less is known about the impacts on farmers, food prices, food availability, and environment of reducing food loss and waste. On October 17, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a workshop to examine key challenges that arise in reducing food loss and waste throughout the supply chain and discussed potential ways to address these challenges. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Download or read book Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Trade Policy written by Paolo Giordani and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2014-09-26 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper studies the relationship between trade policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, governments may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large food price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets and trade policy. Specifically, unilateral actions give rise to a "multiplier effect": when a shock drives up the price of food, exporters respond by imposing restrictions while importers wind down protection, thus exacerbating the initial shock and soliciting further trade policy activism. We test the key prediction of the theory with a new dataset that comprises monthly information on trade measures across 77 countries and 33 food products for the period 2008-11, finding evidence of a multiplier effect in food trade policy. These findings contribute to inform the broader debate on the proper regulation of food trade policy within the multilateral trading system.

Download or read book Solar powered cold storages and sustainable food system transformation Evidence from horticulture markets interventions in northeast Nigeria written by Takeshima, Hiroyuki and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern cooling technologies that utilize renewable energy sources have been increasingly recognized as a promising tool to address a multitude of challenges emerging in progressively complex food systems in developing countries. When provided as cold-storages inside horticulture markets, cooling technologies can potentially contribute to improved quality of products and strengthened vertical linkages. Knowledge gaps about the actual impacts of these technologies in developing countries remain, especially in Africa south of Sahara (SSA). This study partly fills this knowledge gap by providing evidence from the evaluation of recent interventions in northeast Nigeria in which 7 small solar-powered cold-storages were installed across 7 horticulture markets. Combinations of difference-in-difference and variants of propensity-score-based methods suggest that using cold-storages significantly increased horticulture sales volumes and revenues of market-agents. Back-of-the-envelope calculations indicate that increased net revenues for market-agents may be sufficiently large to recoup the investments and operating costs of cold-storages within a reasonable time frame. Using cold-storage also reduced the share of food loss and lengthened the products' shelf-life, while raised prices received by both market-agents and farmers, which were associated with improved product quality, expanded value-adding activities by market-agents, and increased use of advance payments. We find no evidence of negative spillover effects inside horticulture markets. Finally, additional food-science experiments confirm that cold-storages preserve original physical and nutritional qualities of key horticultural products several days longer than products stored under ambient temperature.

Download or read book Drawdown written by Paul Hawken and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • New York Times bestseller • The 100 most substantive solutions to reverse global warming, based on meticulous research by leading scientists and policymakers around the world “At this point in time, the Drawdown book is exactly what is needed; a credible, conservative solution-by-solution narrative that we can do it. Reading it is an effective inoculation against the widespread perception of doom that humanity cannot and will not solve the climate crisis. Reported by-effects include increased determination and a sense of grounded hope.” —Per Espen Stoknes, Author, What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming “There’s been no real way for ordinary people to get an understanding of what they can do and what impact it can have. There remains no single, comprehensive, reliable compendium of carbon-reduction solutions across sectors. At least until now. . . . The public is hungry for this kind of practical wisdom.” —David Roberts, Vox “This is the ideal environmental sciences textbook—only it is too interesting and inspiring to be called a textbook.” —Peter Kareiva, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA In the face of widespread fear and apathy, an international coalition of researchers, professionals, and scientists have come together to offer a set of realistic and bold solutions to climate change. One hundred techniques and practices are described here—some are well known; some you may have never heard of. They range from clean energy to educating girls in lower-income countries to land use practices that pull carbon out of the air. The solutions exist, are economically viable, and communities throughout the world are currently enacting them with skill and determination. If deployed collectively on a global scale over the next thirty years, they represent a credible path forward, not just to slow the earth’s warming but to reach drawdown, that point in time when greenhouse gases in the atmosphere peak and begin to decline. These measures promise cascading benefits to human health, security, prosperity, and well-being—giving us every reason to see this planetary crisis as an opportunity to create a just and livable world.

Download or read book Sustainable Development and International Food Trade Policies written by Cemal Atici and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-09 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a particular focus on developing economies, this book explores the intersection between agri-environmental policy, food policy, agricultural trade policy, and sustainable development. This book explores the many factors which shape sustainable development policies in agriculture. On the production side, using environmentally friendly inputs and good agricultural practices to protect the land and other related resources are necessary conditions for sustainable agriculture. On the other hand, ensuring food safety, security, and sustainable consumption are necessary elements of sustainable food policies and development. In addition, as the agricultural sector grows in an economy, energy needs become a major issue, especially for countries that depend on import. This book explores how these elements are balanced – along with global factors such as foreign direct investment, international climate change provisions, and the role of the WTO – in domains such as value chains, biotechnology, gender equality, ecology, and trade-environment interaction. This book will be of great interest to advanced readers in the fields of agricultural policy, food trade policy, and sustainable development.