Key levers of change for farming sustainability

Prof. Naoufel CheikhrouhouInès Burrus

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Meet The Team

Professor of supply chain, logistics and operations management at the Haute école de gestion de Genève.

Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou

Ph.D. student at the Faculty of

Business and Economics of the

University of Lausanne.

Research Assistant at HEG-Geneva.

Mrs. Inès Burrus

Research SupervisorImplementation of the Research Agreement

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Project Set-up

Research

Sponsor

Sponsor

Sponsor

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Systematic ReviewIdentificatoin and analysis of

barriers, enablers &

Solutions.

3 Case Studies Implementation of the framework in 3

coffee / cocoa producing countries.  

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RecommendationsOperationalization of actions and

enablers in the 3 countries.

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Research Problem

Take farming from a subsistence economy to being an attractive life-choice profession

for the next generation.

Rural to Urban Exodus

Aging farmer population

Increasing food demand

Interventions with limited effect

Food security

Agricultural productivity

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Research Questions

Under which conditions is farming declining

globally?

Under which conditions can farming be made

attractive and accessible for new entrants,

especially young people?

How do RQ 1 and RQ 2 apply to smallholder

farming, especially cocoa and coffee farming?

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Systematic Review 7

1. Planning the review

2. Identifying and evaluating studies Analysis of worldwide smallholder farming over time and space.

3. Extracting and synthesizing data Factors, conditions and processes.

5. Utilizing the findings Practical recommendations

and theory building.

4. ReportingConceptual framework:   « key levers of change for farming attractiveness

and accessibility»..

Case Studies 8

1. Selecting 3 countries

2. Identifying the research problemConducting a literature review.

3. Collecting data Field interviews.

5. Utilizing the findings Theoretical and practical

contributions.

4. Analysing dataMixed analysis and cross-

case conclusions...

Thank you for your attention!

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References

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Presented by Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou Geneva School of Business Administration, Switzerland

   

Founding The Pillars For Sustainable Agri-food Supply Chain Management

Indo-Swiss Joint Research Programme in the Social Sciences

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management Overview

q  Introduction q  Project overview q  Objectives q  Partners q  Approach/Methodology q  Expected outcomes q  Current progress

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management Introduction

Farmers     Procurement centres

Central distribution

system Deficit states

Fair price shops Consumers

Agents    Central  

distribu1on  system  

Retail  stores  Farmers     Consumers  

Food grain supply chain system

Vegetable and fruits supply chains

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management Food supply chains in India

and Switzerland

India

Parwez (2014): 25-30% of food wasted due to inadequate infrastructure and highly inefficient supply chains

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (2013): 21 million tonnes of wheat lost per year

Singh (2010): Monetary value of losses = INR 50,000 crores (7’808 million US dollars) per year

Switzerland

Willersinn et al. (2017) analysed the Environmental impacts of food losses along the entire Swiss potato supply chain

Willersinn et al. (2015) investigated the quantity and quality of food losses along the Swiss potato supply chain.

Betz et al. (2014) worked on the problem of food loss in the food service industry and assessed the level of waste.

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management The basic concept of

sustainability

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Need of sustainability in agri-food supply chain

Growing demand of food due to increasing world population

Food wastage ( Annually worldwide 1.3 billion tones of food gets wasted)

Providing support to farmers and employment to people

Water and Carbon Footprint of Food supply chains

Energy consumption at farming level and food processing stage

Product bulkiness, perishability, seasonability, food safety and quality

Sustainable agri-food supply chain (Economic, Social and Environmental)

Challenges of agri-food supply chain

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management Objectives

To analyse practices in agri-food supply chain design and management in India and in Switzerland

To compare the data regarding the impact of the management of agri-supply chains on the economic, societal and environmental performances

To benchmark best practices for understanding and managing agri supply chains of both countries

To propose lean strategies to minimize non value-added activities from collection to storage of food using optimal utilization of storage capacity.

To study and recommend approaches to minimize the food wastage impact on environment’s valuable resources such as land, water and energy.

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Indian collaborator

Project collaborators

Geneva School of Business Administration

Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou

Prof. Ravi Shankar just completed tri-lateral international research project on “Next Generation Sustainable Freight Transportation (NEX-GIFT)”. He is also the co-investigator in European Union funded research project on “Efficient & Sustainable Freight Transportation.”

Project partners

Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou leads a research project fully funded by food companies in Switzerland (Nestlé, Nespresso and ECOM). Handled several research projects in the area of sustainable supply chains

Inès Burrus Ph.D. student

Swiss collaborator

Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari

Mr. Dnyaneshwar Mogale

Prof. Ravi Shankar

Prof. Tiwari is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the inter-disciplinary project entitled “Sustainable Food Security through Technological Interventions for Production, Processing and Logistics” which involves the other three departments. It is sponsored by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India.

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management Approach/ Methodology

Data collection from various reports related to Indian and Swiss agri-food supply chain system, online portals of food system of both countries, Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reports

Field visits, interviews and questionnaire surveys

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for identification and quantification of environmental impacts of food wastage

Multi-objective modeling by integrating the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability  

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management Expected outcomes

Scientific side

A framework for benchmarking best practices in food supply chains in both

countries

A public database on the impact of the management of agri-supply chains on the environmental, the societal and the

economic performances

A proposal for an effective and efficient design and management of

sustainable Agri-food supply networks in both countries

Three (3) joint publications in high impact scientific journals

Cooperation side

Three visits between India and Switzerland.

Development of MoU on research and education between the three partners.

Development of one new joint research proposal on sustainable supply chains to be submitted for funding to the EU framework

Programme ‘Horizon 2020’.

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management Timeline

Tentative Schedule Work

Oct’17-

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Practice Analysis/ state of the art development

Objective II

Objective III

Objective IV

Objective V  

Report writing

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References  

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Founding the pillars for Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain Management References

Parwez, S. (2014). African Journal of Business Management Food supply chain management in Indian Agriculture: Issues, opportunities and further research 8 (14), 572 581. Report of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, (2013). Global food waste not, want not. Singh, P. K. (2010). A decentralized and holistic approach for grain management in India. Current Science, 99(9), 1179–1180.

Willersinn, C., Möbius, S., Mouron, P., Lansche, J., & Mack, G. (2017). Environmental impacts of food losses along the entire Swiss potato supply chain–Current situation and reduction potentials. Journal of Cleaner Production, 140, 860-870.

Betz, A., Buchli, J., Göbel, C., & Müller, C. (2015). Food waste in the Swiss food service industry–Magnitude and potential for reduction. Waste Management, 35, 218-226.  

Willersinn, C., Mack, G., Mouron, P., Keiser, A., & Siegrist, M. (2015). Quantity and quality of food losses along the Swiss potato supply chain: Stepwise investigation and the influence of quality standards on losses. Waste Management, 46, 120-132.