...The Threats to Global Food Supplies Weiwen Huang Student Number: 2171584 Class: Syllabus 4/1 Tutor: Siriol Lewis In the past half-century, food production had a significant growth. At the same time, the global demand for food rose rapidly. It is required more food supply to feed the global growing population. Thus the global population growth is the main factor of rising food need. It was predicted that the global population will reach over 9 billion people by 2050(Black, 2010 cited in Slaght, 2012, p.28). Another factor is that food consumption per person shows a rising trend with increased consumption of animal protein (Leaver, 2011). Therefore, the primary task of global food supplies is that making sure the global food production can match the global food demand. It is not easy to be done, because there are many menaces to global food provision. This essay will discuss some threats for food supplies and identify several solutions to make the assignment easier to be fulfilled. First of all, different resources constrict food production, such as land. It is well known that if food output want to be increase, it is necessary to increase the area of farmland. However, over the past 50 years the global farmland acreage just grew slightly, which did not match the growth of population. The agricultural land area for each person had fallen from 1.3 hectares to 0.72 hectares during 1967-2007. (Leaver, 2011) This means that average amount of food that can be consumed per person...
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... Practical Application EXECUTI VE SUM M ARY THE COM PANY: iability company founded in 2011, is a US alternative energy research and development company and a manufacturer of energy products. The scientific foundations and business planning began long before this time. Parallel journeys of the founding members merged and bonded to create this unique blend of talent, vision, technologies, strength and experience, with extensive product-to-market preparations;; all amassed for the focused purpose of producing products that will change the way the world thinks about, and views, energy. The TG primary business and product lines are based upon Endothermic Reactive Phase Shift Systems applied to numerous practical applications; affecting and augmenting all heating, cooling and freezing processes known to man at this time. The Company designs, develops, manufactures, produces and sells advanced energy products for practical and efficient performance for its customers. At Thermic Green, science is applied to meaningful and practical applications. THE OPPORTUNI TY: Rising energy costs represent current and growing dynamic threats to the economic interests of all businesses in the United States and internationally. Growing concerns about increasing levels ...
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...History and Development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) LAS 432 History and Development of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) Introduction Human beings continuously try to incorporate knowledge of nature through science to help mitigate the challenges they face. Science has benefits as seen in the developments in the modern world, in-terms of food production and mechanization. In the 19th century, the industrialization took over from Agrarian revolution in the agricultural sector. Agriculture was the main economic activity that drove the development from food production. Industrialization brought about increased productivity in the agricultural sector with abandonment of the traditional practices to embracing modern technology. This came to be referred as biotechnology. Biotechnology was the incorporation modern technology in food production to reduce costs and increase output. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are organisms with modified genetic material for desirable traits n production, drought resistant and pest resistant. From traditional practices, selective breeding practices have continuously improved the agricultural sector (Liang, & Skinner, 2004). Selective breeding is the control of breeding in plants and animals by taking the desired and high producing plants for the hybrid to have the best produce overtime. Researchers took selective breeding in the 20th century to understand the...
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...in big industries. Furthermore, mostly electronics industry and motor vehicle industry need large quantity of robots to complete their products until final products (IFR International Federation of Robotics, n.d). The top list shows that the Republic of Korea has sold 23,500 robots, up from 7,800 units in 2009 (IFR International Federation of Robotics, n.d). From the statistics, we can realise that robots play an important role to do work in all of the industries in the world. However, there are those who think that robots have negative effects for people and can bring extreme danger in future. Although other people think that robots bring negative effects to them, there is strong evidence to show that robots are needed to solve the problems of people. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to point out the advantages and importance of robots to do work which can produce greater quantity of products, clean our houses and do jobs in the food industry. Robots are actively...
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...International University Viet Nam National University Fieldtrip report Course: Production and Operations Management Lecturer: Truong Quang Duoc Name: Nguyen Hoang Thien Thanh ID: BABAIU12251 Acecook Vietnam Company Company overview Since its inception in 1995, Acecook Vietnam Joint Stock Company has been developing dramatically and becomes a leading manufacturer of foodstuffs in Vietnam. Acecook Vietnam, attained a strong position in the market while providing instant processed products with high quality and nutritional values. 1. “Provide high quality and safe products to best meet the demands of consumers.” Core values Ensure company management, policy compliance, targets, as well as information disclosure being smoothly and fully implemented. Intense competition for price and attain a strong position in the world’s market. 2. “To become a leading manufacturer of foodstuffs in Vietnam whose management ability is commensurate with globalization.” Vision and mission To bring new culinary consumption concepts to local and foreign consumers through supplying high quality products. - Satisfy consumers’ demands. - Bring happy life and substainable growth to employees. - Attain a strong position and supports in over the world. History 1. Instant noodles From the late XVIII century, European started to produce and consume noodles. And it became traditional food of European countries, especially Italy and France. Then, this product was introduced...
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...environmental differences. He also talks about survival of the fittest. He says that intelligence is closely linked to human and cultural survival. All of these questions would be answered by the end of the book. Part One: - From Eden to Cajamarca Chapter 1. Up to the Starting Line Evolution is explained, relating us and our “ancestors” of many centuries ago. Primates such as gorillas are said to be our closest relatives. Africa presides as the homeland for all species. Neanderthals have always been viewed as mindless, mentally deranged creatures. Fifty years ago, The Great Leap Forward was like a big advancement in technology. Hominids also began to spread across New Guinea and Australia. The larger animals that failed to attain protection qualities against other predators during evolution died out and became extinct. Eurasia also occured. It became the more advanced between them and Africa, although Africa started out on top. Chapter 2. A Natural Experiment of History The Maori and Moriori descended from Polynesians,...
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...Guns, Germs And Steel JARED DIAMOND W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 Word Count: 774 How did guns, germs, and steel shape the history of the world? Jared Diamond’s journey to discover equality began in the rainforest of Papua New Guinea. In the Prologue Diamond tells the readers about how he became intrigued when Yali, his New Guinean friend posed the question: “Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” (Pg. 14) When Yali talks about cargo he is referring to technology i.e. tools, accessories, and other complicated inventions. So Diamond rephrases the question as such: “Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents?” (Pg. 16) Yali’s question gets Diamond motivated to research and write this book on the history of everyone for the past 13,000 years. He attempts to peel back the layers of the past like an onion and explore the roots of power in the modern world. The question motivating the book is that: “Why did history unfold differently on different continents?” (Pg. 9) Diamond has traveled the world for the past 30 years looking for answers to eventually come up with this well thought out theory to this question; it is not because of intelligence due to racial differences but rather environmental differences. As stated before this book emphasizes on the search for ultimate explanations, and on pushing the causes of history as far back as possible...
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...Executive Summary Our teams goal is to establish how Agrium has transitioned from a local Calgary based Corporation to a large corporation with an apparent “Global Organization” model. We are interested in understanding how they have grown into a world leader in their industry. We will identify where they started, where they are today in mining and technology, and how they reach consumers all over the world while maintaining their vertical control from their headquarters in Calgary; by analysing Agrium’s history, corporate structure, and three key business units. At the end of this case study we hope other Canadian organizations will adopt the Agrium model when they consider expanding operations globally. Keywords: Agrium, Agro-food, , clusters, global, mining, and vertical integration Table of Contents Introduction.................................................................................................................................................. 1 History .......................................................................................................................................................... 1 Corporate Division ...................................................................................................................................... 2 Governance ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Board of Directors ..........................
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...reached 4 per cent ($25 billion) of GDP and this proportion remains one of the highest in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries (Australian Government Productivity Commission, 2005).There are several reasons for this upward trend during this period, which are specifically, advanced technology, change in farm structure, the change in demands, and trade. Even though there has been negative impact on agriculture, those four areas have led to the high performance of agricultural productivity during this period. Over the last thirty years, the use of technology in the agricultural industry in Australia has changed and improved dramatically. Layton states that one of the key elements to increase in supply is new and more efficient technology (2012, p67). The adoption of new technology is essential for farmers to maintain the level of profitability and to shift production possibility frontier out (Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2008). For instance, satellite technology has been installed when making decisions on land use and some larger farms have invested in more sophisticated machinery and equipment to produce crops more efficiently. Technology has been developed to improve the quality of herbicides, fertilisers and other chemicals to enhance farm lands. In addition, genetic modification (GM) technique makes farm products more resilient to diseases and harsh climate conditions. (Kingwell, R 2011). However, serious natural disasters,...
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...Biofuels are becoming an increasingly important alternative to traditional forms of energy Even though production of biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, is rapidly increasing, their contribution to total fuel consumption will remain limited. Biofuels are sources of energy produced directly or indirectly from organic material including animal waste and plant material. In order to be considered a biofuel, at least 80% of the fuel must be made from renewable materials. There are 3 main types of biofuels: ethanol, biodiesel and biojet fuel. Biofuels are considered to be renewable since they can be replaced as quickly as they are used however biofuels biofuel production requires the use of fossil fuels in the form of fertilizers, agrochemicals,...
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...Management Supply Chain Management and Challenges Facing the Food Industry Sector in Tanzania Juma Makweba Ruteri (Corresponding author) & Qi Xu Glorious School of Business and Management, Donghua University PO box 474, 1882 West Yan an Rd Shanghai, China Tel: 86-21-6237-3965 Abstract The complexities of food supply chain impose enormous challenges to the processors. As compared to multinational food companies operating in Tanzania, local firms have been performing inefficiently or going out of the business because they could hardly withstand the competition. SCM in the food industry sector was studied in a qualitative survey covered 23 food processing firms in Tanzania, with the purposes of identifying the existing supply chain operation, knowledge of SCM concept and challenges facing the sector. The findings of this study suggest that a lot of efforts need to be addressed to ensure that food processors benefit from SCM concept. The understanding of SCM concept among the processors seems to be low, thus, hindering them from taping up the advantages that SCM concept offer. The sector still faces a number of factors which impede the firms to grow fast and compete in the global market. Such factors include technical know-how, research and development, capital, managerial and physical infrastructures. Keywords: Supply chain management, Inventory management, Customer perceived value, Food industry 1. Introduction Food industry is one of the largest branches of industries in Tanzania...
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...BIOMASS Malathi.N I year MBA, School of Management Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore. ABSTRACT Concerns about the availability and long-term supply of petroleum-derived fuels have caused the search for alternative sources of energy. After a century of unprecedented growth in science, technology, and the economy, we now face tremendous challenges to our ability to fuel the future: a fluctuating oil price, a changing climate, and continued dependence on unreliable energy sources. These problems are increasingly personal, and the demand for solutions becomes increasingly urgent. The ultimate solutions will only come from fundamental innovations in science and technology. Liquid fuels will for some applications be necessary for an indefinite period of time. Therefore, defining relevant feedstocks, producing fuels from these feedstocks and the properties of these fuels are critical issues. The utilization of biomass resources assumes importance due to the soaring crude price and depleting reserves of fossil fuels coupled with the rising environmental concern. Ethanol derived from renewable ligno-cellulosic biomass of non-edible variety has been identified globally as the future solution for meeting the energy demand. Apart from fuel and energy, biomass can also be the source of large number of derivatives. Biomass can be used for fuels, power production, and products that would otherwise be made from fossil fuels. In such scenarios, biomass can...
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...Marketing Management 1 Assignment 1 Company: Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad Product: Papad Section: 3 Group: 5 Group Members: Abhishek FT163006 Divya FT163020 Jimmy FT163035 Megha FT163051 Prateek FT163068 Shamipa FT163085 Vaibhav FT163099 Contents Introduction 3 PESTEL Analysis 4 Political and Legal 4 Environmental 4 Socio-cultural 4 Technology 4 Economic 4 Porter’s five forces analysis 6 Competitive Rivalry: Moderate but constantly increasing 6 Threat of New Entrants: Low 7 Bargaining Power of Suppliers – Low 7 Bargaining Power of Buyers – High 7 Threat from Substitutes – Moderate 7 SWOT Analysis 8 Strengths 8 Weaknesses 9 Threats 10 Opportunities 10 Current Segmentation, Targeting and Positioning 10 Segmentation 10 Targeting 11 Positioning 11 Growth strategy for Lijjat Papad 12 Recommendations 12 ANSOFF’s matrix 12 12 Proposed segmentation 13 Proposed Targeting 13 Proposed Positioning 13 References: 14 Introduction Lijjat papad was established on March 15, 1959 by a group of 7 women to spend their leisure time and earn their livelihood using the only skill they possessed, that was cooking. It has grown from 7 women in 1959 to 40000 in 2006 and 43000 in 2014 and from their 1st profit of 80 paise to 300 crores in 2006 and 650 crores in 2014. It started in Girgaum village of South Mumbai and the 2nd office was opened in Vadala that became the regd...
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...would come to dominate the world in global economy (Landes, European Exceptionalism: A Different Path, 1998). Frank (2001) described the process of which the western society overcame pre-modern growth restraints and risen during the 19th century as the most powerful and wealthy region, as ‘The Great Divergence’ (Also commonly referred to as ‘the European miracle’ (Jones, 2003)). This essay will explore the development of European civilization through examining the revolution of commercial, industrial, agricultural, scientific, and the beginning of colonial empires. Also, we will look at various works of many authors and their theories regarding how and why the process of Great Divergence occurred. This includes the change in economical effects, the role of government, culture, the technological development, and innovation. In addition, we will briefly explore the previously developed areas; such as China and compare them to European civilization. The approximate beginning of ‘great divergence’ has been debated between many authors, being as early as 17th century, where Europe’s economy was starting grow over other region’s economy (Maddison, 2001). However, many historians believe that it was during the 19th century when Europe was developing rapidly. On the other hand, other regions that were previously...
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...19th centuries in which the world transitioned from a more natural environment, to heavy industry and infrastructure. During the industrial revolution, rural societies in Europe and America became industrial and urban through advancements in technology and manufacturing processes. Growth in industrialism in combination with an anthropocentric world view, brought with it a lack of sentiment for the environment, health risks, and resource depletion. Naturally, as ideologies have shifted to a more basic biocentric point of view, people have sought out to replace the design and production methods of industrial environmentally hurtful materials with more sustainable methods. Among these people are William McDonough, and American architect, and Michael Braungart, a German chemist. Based on the idea that nature is a designer and that human industrial structure works in contrast to the natural environment, McDonough and Braungart have pioneered “cradle to cradle” design which attempts to imitate nature’s structural design that produces without pollution. Additionally, David R. Keller and E. Charles Brummer, professors and directors of studies, have developed postmechanistic agricultural ideas to humane and environmentally conscious food production. To offer a greater philosophical view, Aldo Leopold’s, “The Land Ethic” reorients ethics to view human beings as members of a much larger biotic community. These speakers all act on different interrelated topics to preserve nature and provide...
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