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SUMMARY:Food Supply Chains: in collaboration with Indian Institute of Mana
 gement\, Lucknow - Please see the website for speaker information
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CONTACT:Jo Griffiths
DESCRIPTION:Security of food supply chain is becoming a global challenge a
 s population growth far \noutstrips projected increase in food production.
  With the availability of agricultural land \nremaining broadly flat\, and
  already consuming 70% of the global water supply and with soil \ndegradat
 ion impacting 24% of the available 11.5 billion hectares\, the situation i
 s likely to \nbecome more critical. Furthermore\, the Food Foresight proje
 ct has estimated that Agriculture\nrepresents 10-12% of GHG (Green House G
 as) emissions while still failing to address \npoverty and the undernouris
 hed. \n\nPapers presented:\n\n\n*Sustainability and risk challenges in foo
 d supply chains: An Indian perspective*\n\nSamir Dani and Babso Kanwar\nLo
 ughborough University\, UK\nASK Gourmet Consultants Pvt. Ltd\, India\n\nTh
 is paper explores the challenges faced by Indian food supply chains. In re
 cent years\, global food supply chains have been facing numerous challenge
 s with regards to food safety\, sustainability and risks. Consumer prefere
 nces across the world are changing and the supply chains have to cater to 
 this demand. Developing countries and especially India introduce a host of
  new challenges to these supply chains. In this study\, semi structured in
 terviews are conducted with senior industry professionals in the Indian fo
 od supply chain to gain their perspective regarding the challenges faced b
 y their food supply chains. The paper concludes by presenting important in
 sights regarding the current state of Indian food supply chains.\n\n*Manag
 ing operations in the perishable food products industry: literature review
  and further research directions *\n\nAtanu Chaudhuri\, Rajiv Srivastara a
 nd Samir Srivastara\nIndian Institute of Management\, Lucknow\, India\n\nP
 erishability of food products poses multiple challenges for producers\, pr
 ocessing units and other stakeholders in the supply chain. Perishability i
 ncreases the need for responsiveness and flexibility but has negative impa
 ct on efficiency. The Indian perishable food products industry also has it
 s unique challenges. Supply uncertainty\, multiple intermediaries\, variab
 le product quality\, lack of safety and traceability and lack of adequate 
 cold chain infrastructure create inefficiencies across the Indian perishab
 le food products supply chain. It also impacts the price at which the prod
 uct reaches the consumer. Literature on perishable food products has addre
 ssed specific challenges in operations planning\, quality management\, inv
 entory management\, traceability and cold-chain logistics an on multi-eche
 lon optimization across the supply chain. An initial literature review cou
 pled with understanding of the Indian perishable food products help us in 
 identifying a few areas in the perishable food products supply chains wher
 e we would like to focus our future research. \n\n*Mapping of UK-India foo
 d supply chains*\n\nMukesh Kumar\, Jagjit Singh Srai and Mike Gregory\nIns
 titute for Manufacturing\, University of Cambridge\, UK\n\nAbstract not av
 ailable\n\n*A transaction cost approach to cooperatives companies’ suppl
 y chain: case study in a Brazilian dairy cooperative*\n\nFernanda Pacheco 
 Dohms and Sergio Luiz Lessa de Gusmão\,\nPontifícia Universidade Católi
 ca do Rio Grande do Sul\, Brazil\n\nThis article aims to analyze the suppl
 y chain (SC) of a Brazilian cooperative company\, focusing on cooperative 
 members based on the transaction cost approach (TC). Thus was developed a 
 case study in the cooperative company: Cooperativa Agropecuária Petrópol
 is Ltda. (COAPEL)\, collecting data about relationships and transactions o
 f its critical cooperative members. In this research was considered\, main
 ly\, the cooperative’s principles and business structure and\, the segme
 nt in which the company operates: agribusiness. The main findings of this 
 analyze concludes that is preferential a vertical integration of the SC’
 s members because of a combination of some observed TC attributes. Also wa
 s demonstrated a degree of inefficiency in the cooperative business model 
 for the control of its SC’s members\, as well as the model itself. And l
 astly\, was suggested that the model should have a better governance struc
 ture in pursuit of lower costs and better control of its transactions.\n\n
 *Securing food supply through efficiency in the supply chain*\n\nPedro Zar
 agoza-Gasca and Tom Ridgman\,\nDepartment of Engineering\, University of C
 ambridge\, UK\n\nFeeding 9 billion people by 2050 without a dramatic incre
 ase in the demand for water\, energy and land for food production is one o
 f humankind’s biggest challenges. The increase in the incomes is likely 
 to drive the lead to a surge in the food demand. \n\nImprovements in food 
 efficiency could considerably decrease food and resource demand whilst dec
 reasing hunger and obesity around the world. This scenario requires strong
  food policy leadership from the developed world to regulate consumer’s 
 food waste\, strong investment in the developing world to develop the food
  supply chain and the redistribution of food by decreasing the food overco
 nsumption of some regions of the world.  \n\n*Managing social food supply 
 chain*\n\nGyan Prakash and Mukesh Kumar\, \nIndian Institute of Management
  Indore\, India\nInstitute for Manufacturing\, University of Cambridge\, U
 K\n\nThe objectives of this study are to understand the design\, implement
 ation and monitoring of social food supply chain. As a case in point India
 n public distribution system (PDS) have been investigated. In India a publ
 ic distribution system (PDS) and its improved version targeted public dist
 ribution system (TPDS) was carved out as a novel system of safety net oper
 ations for the distribution of scheduled commodities to the targeted citiz
 ens through a network of institutions comprising Food Corporation of India
  (FCI) warehouses and fair price shops (FPS). The methodology adopted is a
  mix of literature review\, document analysis\, interview with policy make
 rs\, officials responsible for distribution of food grains\, fair price sh
 op owners and survey of end users. It is inferred that this system is frau
 ght with inefficiency at all stages of the supply chain and service delive
 ry is poor. A hybrid approach is proposed to retain the current PDS supply
  chain while making suitable process redesigns\, introducing ICT based int
 erventions and involvement of private actors in service delivery.\n
LOCATION:Moller Centre\, Cambridge
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