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Food Security – Analysis and Solutions
Sanjay Sethi
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Contents
1. Global and Local Analysis of Food Security
2. World Hunger Map
3. Grow Africa
4. Strategy to combat Hunger
5. A model integrated agricultural project
6. Concept of a Mega Food Park
7. Case Studies
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• Every decade, world has been able to reduce the number of under nourished people by about 100 million and about 800 million are still in the vulnerable condition. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest prevalence of undernourishment, around one in four people in the region remains undernourished.
• Sustained political commitment at the highest level is a prerequisite for hunger eradication. It entails placing food security and nutrition at the top of the political agenda and creating an enabling environment for improving food security and nutrition through adequate investments, better policies, legal frameworks, stakeholder participation and a strong evidence base.
• Hunger reduction requires an integrated approach, which would include: public and private investments to raise agricultural productivity; better access to inputs, land, services, technologies and markets; measures to promote rural development; social protection for the most vulnerable, including strengthening their resilience to conflicts and natural disasters; and specific nutrition programs.
• For Middle Eastern countries to ensure their long term food security, Africa offers a great opportunity which has 60% of world arable not under cultivation.
Global and Local Analysis of Food Security
Food Security Strategy 4
World Hunger Map
Progress in “hunger” reduction,
Source:. IFPRI 2008.
Global Hunger Index 2008 vs. 1990lack of calories, child under-nutrition, child death
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Who is affected by hunger?
Source: UN Millennium Project, Hunger Task Force, 2005.
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Current Areas of Physical and Economic Water Scarcity
Source: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, 2007.
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Cereal Yields by World Region, 1960-2005
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Strategy for reducing Poverty and improving Food and Nutrition Security in Africa
• African farmers are asset-poor, marginal changes in productivity in low-valued staple crops at the household level are unlikely to facilitate an economic shift to a higher-level equilibrium
• Markets for staples in sub-Saharan Africa tend to be very price-inelastic, so fluctuations in productivity result in widely varying prices
• The lack of market connectivity and adequate storage facilities results in local price slumps at harvest time, when many of the poorest households are most in need of income.
• The combination of local market isolation, weak infrastructure, price inelasticity, and a general sense of hopelessness among persistently poor households creates disincentives to adoption of productivity-enhancing technologies
• Small-scale irrigation technologies might play in breaking the cycle of low productivity and precipitating a sustainable escape from persistent poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Key Challenges for A New Green Revolution
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Inadequate Infrastructure and
Supply Chain Skill Gap
Research & Development Market LinkageGovernmental Interventions
Funding Assistance for
agricultural inputs
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Murphy’s Law
In order to raise money – first you prove that you do not need it
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Perceived risks – changing fiscal terms
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Perceived risks – Poor infrastructure
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Perceived risks – safety concerns
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Infrastructure Solution
Create a Hub and Module concept which will enable a developing
country to fast-track a modern commercial agricultural sector.
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Investment Module
500 Hectares
Community
Health, Education and
Housing
SMLProvider of
Services and Infrastructure for 12000 Hectares
Investment Module
500 Hectares
Smallholder Farmers
10000 Hectares
Concept – Integrated Agri Park
Investment Module
500 Hectares
Investment Module
500 Hectares
Agri Park
Power, Housing, Water, Roads, Office and Workshop
Services
Agronomy, Storage, Purchasing, Credit & Repairs
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Wholesale Market Evolution
TWMTRADITIONAL WHOLESALE
MARKET
MTMMODERN TERMINAL MARKET
MFPMEGA FOOD PARK
Price discovery
Aggregation
Physical exchange
Serving large population
Hub & Spoke Model
Transparent & efficient price
discovery
Stronger farm linkages
Market information
Storage facilities
Integrated trade for fresh
Synergistic cluster based approach
Value addition facilities
Common infrastructure
Scale of economy
Integrated trade of fresh as well
as processed
Wholesale Market Evolution
Enablers: Government support, modern trade, increased awareness
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Mega Food Park - Concept
Cluster Based Approach
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Mechanized Handling
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Silo Technology - Shipping
Special Food grain Carrying Wagons
2 Discharges at Bottom
Top Hatch for Grain
Feeding
Wagon Loading System
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Modern Loading Dock
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Solar Powered Refrigerated Warehouses
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Pan India Rail Dedicated Freight Corridor
Connecting the
modern FTWZs
Strategic Rail
Terminal Network
across India
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Cold Store Logistics Park, Hong Kong
Packing & Ripening
Centre
Fresh Produce Cold Centre
for storageTemperature-Controlled Dock
Trading Arenaeasy access & well planned
layout
Discharge &
Parking Zone
Business Complexprovide exhibitions services for local &
international clients
Libya Operations – Before Project Start
Slip-form Canal Machine
Al Khadra Facilities
Al Khadra Reservoir
430 Horse Power – 4 wheel drive
Planting Rig
First wheat crop
Irrigation Canal
Wheat
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Libya Operations - Statistics
• 9,000 Hectares = 35 square miles.
• Corn, Wheat, Alfalfa & Barley.
• 70 Employees.
• Delivered 1,000 semi loads of wheat in 2011 to Benghazi Flour Mill.
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Aerial View
“For too long, we've taken food for granted. We cannot
go on like this.”
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+971 563124677
Sanjay SethiManaging Director & CEO
Signature Agri Ventures Ltd.
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