Improving agri-food supply chains in Asia

Description

The agri-food supply chains in Asia face multiple challenges and threats, such as malnutrition, environmental degradation and unexpected risks. Here, we suggest possible interventions to improve nutrition and health, increase resource use efficiency and reduce adverse environmental impacts. To comprehensively explore the priority of each stage and potential pathways along the agri-food supply chains, this chapter introduces various interventions for crop production, storage, transportation, processing, consumption, food environment and policy perspectives resulting from an extensive literature review. Furthermore, this research illustrates four case studies in which these interventions are comprehensively estimated or successfully implemented in India, China and Singapore. Improving agri-food supply chains requires synergies along all sections, co-operation among multiple sectors, policy innovations and effective investment.

Table of contents

• 1 Introduction: nutrition security and sustainability in Asia
• 2 Challenges and solutions across the supply chain: crop production
• 3 Challenges and solutions across the supply chain: storage, distribution and processing
• 4 Challenges and solutions across the supply chain: consumption
• 5 Challenges and solutions across the supply chain: a system perspective
• 6 Case studies: production structure optimization in India
• 7 Case studies: joint distribution of perishable food in China
• 8 Case studies: e-commerce and supply-chain technology innovation in China
• 9 Case studies: Singapores policy innovations for improving whole-grain consumption
• 10 Conclusion and future trends in research
• 11 Where to look for further information
• 12 Acknowledgements
• 13 References