Type: Chapter

Agri-food supply chains and food security in Asia

Authors

Jose Ma. Luis Montesclaros

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Paul S. Teng

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)

Publication date:

06 May 2024

ID: 9781835451557

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Description

This chapter discusses agri-food supply chains in Asia from the perspective of ensuring food security, to provide consumers with their agri-food consumption requirements. Following this perspective, it takes stock of the latest food security outcomes in Asia with a focus on food utilisation (i.e. undernourishment), followed by a discussion of the key driving factors along the lines of food availability, physical food access and economic food access. These include challenges from climate change, as well as supply-chain disruptions from the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic and Russia’s war on Ukraine. Moving forward, other regions globally can take a page from the various ways by which Asian countries (and its sub-regions) have been working to address food security challenges, building on four examples cited such as China’s state-led upstream interventions; India’s digitalisation of public distribution; Singapore’s state supported agri-food tech ecosystem; and private sector-led digitalisation in Southeast Asia.

Table of contents

  • 1 Introduction: Analysing Asias agri-food supply chains and from a food security perspective
  • 2 Drivers of food utilisation outcomes in agri-food supply chains
  • 3 Improving agri-food supply chain resilience for food security
  • Box 1:
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 5 References