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Anni Mitin and Nurfitri Amir Muhammad discuss food security in the Malaysian context from the viewpoint of consumers and producers. Key takeaways: food security means availability, acceptability, access. But to be sustainably food-secure, policies need to prioritize food *sovereignty* where farmers' rights and access to water, land and seeds are protected. https://lnkd.in/dEr7_a-B

Since the mid-2000s, the agro-food sector has contributed to 10% of the #Dominican Republic’s GDP. Additionally, food processing is the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing sector in the country. 🥭🫑❌ However, fruit and vegetable exports to Europe are frequently banned. This is due to exceeding Maximum Residue Limits and other issues like traceability, value chain weaknesses, and lack of knowledge about EU sanitary and phytosanitary requirements. Small food-processing firms also face challenges accessing international markets because of uncertified safety management systems. To address these challenges, DT Global is providing Technical Assistance for the Implementation of Food Safety Management Systems for 10 companies in the Dominican Republic. Funded by the European Commission, the project aims to help these companies achieve better access to the EU and CARIFORUM markets (the latter being comprised of the 15 Caribbean Community states, along with the Dominican Republic). 🇪🇺🤝🇩🇴 🔍 The project objectives include analyzing deficiencies, creating an implementation plan for each company, and conducting specialized training to ensure compliance with required standards. #TechnicalAssistance #HealthSecurity #EUMarket #IWork4DTGlobal #WeAreDTGlobal

Since the mid-2000s, the agro-food sector has contributed 10% to the #Dominican Republic’s GDP and food processing is the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing sector in the country. 🥭🫑❌ However, fruit and vegetable exports to Europe are frequently banned due to exceeding Maximum Residue Limits and other issues like traceability, value chain weaknesses, and lack of knowledge about EU sanitary and phytosanitary requirements. Small food-processing firms also face challenges accessing international markets due to uncertified safety management systems. To address these challenges, DT Global is providing Technical Assistance for the Implementation of Food Safety Management Systems for 10 companies in the Dominican Republic. Funded by the European Commission the project aims to help these companies achieve better access to the EU and CARIFORUM markets (the latter being comprised of the 15 Caribbean Community states, along with the Dominican Republic). 🇪🇺🤝🇩🇴 🔍 The project objectives include analyzing deficiencies and creating an implementation plan for each company and conducting specialized training to ensure compliance with required standards. #TechnicalAssistance #HealthSecurity #EUMarket #IWork4DTGlobal #WeAreDTGlobal

Since the mid-2000s, the agro-food sector has contributed 10% to the #Dominican Republic’s GDP and food processing is the largest and fastest-growing manufacturing sector in the country. 🥭🫑❌ However, fruit and vegetable exports to Europe are frequently banned due to exceeding Maximum Residue Limits and other issues like traceability, value chain weaknesses, and lack of knowledge about EU sanitary and phytosanitary requirements. Small food-processing firms also face challenges accessing international markets due to uncertified safety management systems. To address these challenges, DT Global is providing Technical Assistance for the Implementation of Food Safety Management Systems for 10 companies in the Dominican Republic. Funded by the European Commission the project aims to help these companies achieve better access to the EU and CARIFORUM markets (the latter being comprised of the 15 Caribbean Community states, along with the Dominican Republic). 🇪🇺🤝🇩🇴 🔍 The project objectives include analyzing deficiencies and creating an implementation plan for each company and conducting specialized training to ensure compliance with required standards. #TechnicalAssistance #HealthSecurity #EUMarket #IWork4DTGlobal #WeAreDTGlobal

The Johannesburg High Court and French Conseil d'État have both made significant rulings in favor of plant-based meat alternatives. The High Court overturned South Africa's ban on 'meat-like' terms, ensuring these products remain available. Similarly, the Conseil d'État suspended a decree in France, responding to concerns from plant-based producers. These decisions reflect growing recognition and acceptance of plant-based foods, signaling promising opportunities for the industry's expansion. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e6DzRZ-A and https://lnkd.in/exQjzkEs.

#latestpublished paper within our special issue 🔎Food Safety: A Developing Country Perspective by Subidey Togan ✖️Developing countries, trying to achieve an acceptable level of food safety at the least possible cost (#efficiency objective) and facilitation of market access to the large and lucrative developed country food markets (market access objective), could follow the multilateral, regional, unilateral or the independent approach. The paper studying the pros and cons of these approaches aims to determine the most appropriate food safety reform package. It shows that the best approach is the unilateral. Under this approach the achievement of efficiency objective requires the adoption and implementation of the multilateral approach. ➡️The achievement of market access objective requires the adoption and implementation of the regulatory regime of the developed country whose markets the developing country is intending to penetrate. Instead, the paper proposes that the developing country adopts and implements the developed countries‘ regulatory regime only in agricultural sub-sectors with highest comparative advantage scores, and that in all other agricultural sub-sectors the country should adopt and implement the regulatory regime as developed by multilateral approach. 🧲Since the tasks associated with designing and implementing the food safety policy reform are challenging, the paper advocates that this task should be left to a new institution, the ‘ #FoodSafety Council‘, which needs to be formed as an autonomous public institution with sufficient financial and technical resources. READ MORE 👉https://lnkd.in/da2kqnbx

Strengthening Caribbean Food Security: The Role of the Barbados-Guyana food terminal - https://lnkd.in/gF9-CNSu - By Ryan Elcock The Caribbean has long grappled with the dual challenge of high dependence on imported food and limited agricultural self-sufficiency. This predicament is particularly acute in smaller territories where limited purchasing power and high import costs exacerbate food insecurity. International agencies like the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture

Strengthening Caribbean Food Security: The Role of the Barbados-Guyana food terminal - https://lnkd.in/g7HNiRGw - By Ryan Elcock The Caribbean has long grappled with the dual challenge of high dependence on imported food and limited agricultural self-sufficiency. This predicament is particularly acute in smaller territories where limited purchasing power and high import costs exacerbate food insecurity. International agencies like the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture

Joining the IFC - International Finance Corporation this week at its 11th International Food Safety Forum in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Engaging event with a wide range of participants from the private and public sector. Key messages from a conversation I had with IFC’s inspiring host - Katia Onul - include: ✅ Alignment with international Codex standards is a prerequisite for countries to participate in global and regional supply chains. Trade is an important driver to improve food safety and public health. ✅ Ensuring food safety is a joint responsibility. Public-private partnerships can help to cut expenditures, stimulate innovation and provide new business models to manage supply chains. ✅ Food safety is an integral part of food security and an issue of global concern. Trade is part of the solution, moving food from surplus to deficit areas, creating jobs and supporting economic development. ✅ Our food systems should become more productive, inclusive, nutrious and sustainable. Reducing food loss and waste along supply chains should be a top priority. Improving trade efficiency and cutting red tape at borders will help. ✅ Resources are insufficient to meet all the needs in the short to medium term. Countries will have to prioritize and make hard choices between competing investment options. Tools are available to help making these decisions, improving transparency and economic efficiency. IFC - International Finance Corporation World Trade Organization The World Bank FAO World Health Organization World Organisation for Animal Health Kateryna Onul Natia Mgeladze

Newly released Issue of #REA. Vol. 78, No 3 (2023) available online https://lnkd.in/er8zq7KY This issue contains a focus aimed to contribute to the ongoing debate surrounding food policies, which are increasingly prevalent in urban areas worldwide, including Italy. These policies intervene in various aspects of food production, distribution and consumption, often with the aim of facilitating a just transition within the agri-food system and engaging diverse groups of stakeholders. The selected articles provide a general framework for integrating food policies into overall governance structures and explore specific topics such as food safety and public procurement. A keynote article dealing with the concept of food district and a short communication devoted to the Italian import and price volatility of cereals market in a war period conclude the issue.   #Scopus #food #policy #transition #governance #district #cereal #Italy Ministero delle Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali CREA Ricerca SIDEA - Società Italiana di Economia Agraria Ismea - Istituto di servizi per il mercato agricolo alimentare EU CAP Network EIP-AGRI Support Facility