agritrace presentation 20161215
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PREPARINGAGRICULTURE
FOR THE FUTURERemoving barriers for farmers
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SECTION ONE - SOLVING REAL WORLD PROBLEMS
Encouraging a reduction in food wastage through
improved storage
Improving micro-farmers' access to markets
Identifying commodity point of origin
Improving efficiency through better information
Forecasting harvest and production levels/ limits
Improving return on investment
AgriTrace is:
SECTION ONE - SOLVING REAL WORLD PROBLEMS
credit: Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology
BACKGROUNDApproximately one-third of all food is lost or wasted globally
Enough to feed 870 million people every year
48% of subsistence bananacrops are lost in Fiji due tolack of infrastructure
25% of root crops are lostin Fiji due to technicalinefficiency
Causes are connected to financial,managerial and technical limitationsin harvesting techniques, storageand cooling facilities in difficultclimactic conditions, infrastructureand marketing systems.
For example:
FOOD LOSSis "the decrease in quality or quantity of food"
credit: United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
SECTION TWO - DEFINING FOOD LOSSES
"The figures for food loss are hard to quantifyand are dependent on the types of foods and thecountries where they are produced butestimates in the range of 20-50%"
"Packaging that reduces condensation or theregrowth of bacteria will substantially reducefood loss. Intelligent packaging must beimplemented such as time temperatureindicators (TTI) which are devices or labels thatshow the accumulated time-temperaturehistory of food or other temperature sensitiveproducts."
credit: University of Nottingham
Manage harvesting techniques
Develop storage and processing infrastructure
Find transport solutions
Encourage appropriate hygiene and food
handling practices
Maintain continuous improvement
Nations need help to:
INDIA
A number of factors contributed to the loss of grain in
India in the summer of 2012;
guaranteed purchase price increased 70% between
2007 and 2012
record bumper crops for five consecutive years
stockpiles amassed 12 times higher than the
national target (50 million tonnes)
inadequate storage infrastructure meant that grain
was exposed to summer heat and monsoon rains
SECTION THREE - EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
19 million tonnes of grainwere lost in 2012 alone
SECTION THREE - EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
CHINA / AUSTRALIA
In February 2015, Chinese berries became a national
issue in Australia after 18 cases of hepatitis A were
confirmed by the Department of Health.
Simultaneously, the agency responsible for food import
standards, Food Standards Australia New Zealand,
stated that outbreaks are "infrequent internationally
and rare in Australia".
Despite this, the contaminated berries were identified
as having been imported from the Chinese province of
Shandong, and reporting on the issue was widespread
and predominantly negative.
SECTION THREE - EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
CHINA / AUSTRALIA
All frozen berries linked to the outbreak were
immediately held and quarantined while the Australian
Department of Agriculture directed the responsible
food standards agency to conduct a "rigorous scientific
assessment of the risk status of frozen berries from
around the globe".
The effects of this event on the global supply chain,
including on Chinese producers and Australian
consumers, are multiplied by the time taken for the
responsible agencies to identify and then quarantine
the affected facilities.
How can we helpnations developthe solutions theyneed to thrive?
AgriTrace is a piece of software that provides
producers and consumers with a comprehensive
platform to trace the origins, quantity, quality, sale,
logistics and destination of any commodity or
produce.
Aggregation of produce from multiple farms or
orchards provides producers with the quantity to
justify and afford storage/ transport infrastructure.
In doing so, we have sought to create a platform that
is easy to use and which is available even in areas
with limited internet connectivity to help producers
and farmers to increase their investment returns.
HOW IT WORKS
SECTION FOUR - THE AGRITRACE SOLUTION
THANK YOU FORYOUR TIME.
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