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Key levers of change for farming sustainability

Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou


Inès Burrus

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Meet The Team 2

Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou Mrs. Inès Burrus


Professor of supply chain, logistics and Ph.D. student at the Faculty of
operations management at the Haute Business and Economics of the
école de gestion de Genève. University of Lausanne.
Research Assistant at HEG-Geneva.

Implementation of
Research Supervisor the Research Agreement
Project Set-up 3

Sponsor

Research
Sponsor

Sponsor
2017  

Systematic Review
Identificatoin and analysis of
barriers, enablers &
2018   Solutions.

3 Case Studies
Implementation of the framework in 3
coffee / cocoa producing countries.  
2019  

Recommendations
Operationalization of actions and
enablers in the 3 countries.
End  

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Research Problem 5

Increasing food demand

Rural to Urban Exodus

Take farming from a


Aging farmer population subsistence economy
to being an attractive
life-choice profession
for the next
Food security generation.

Agricultural productivity

Interventions with
limited effect
Research Questions 6

1 Under which conditions is farming declining


globally?

Under which conditions can farming be made


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attractive and accessible for new entrants,

3 especially young people?

3 How do RQ 1 and RQ 2 apply to smallholder


farming, especially cocoa and coffee farming?
Systematic Review 7

1. Planning the review

5. Utilizing the findings 2. Identifying and evaluating studies


Practical recommendations Analysis of worldwide smallholder farming
and theory building. over time and space.

4. Reporting 3. Extracting and synthesizing data


Conceptual framework:   « key levers Factors, conditions and processes.
of change for farming attractiveness
and accessibility».
.
Case Studies 8

1. Selecting 3 countries

5. Utilizing the findings 2. Identifying the research problem


Theoretical and practical Conducting a literature review.
contributions.

4. Analysing data 3. Collecting data


Mixed analysis and cross- Field interviews.
case conclusions..
.
Thank you for your attention!

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References 10

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Indo-Swiss Joint Research
    Programme in the Social Sciences
Founding The Pillars For
Sustainable Agri-food Supply
Chain Management
Presented by
Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou

Geneva School of Business Administration,


Switzerland
Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Overview Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

q  Introduction
q  Project overview
q  Objectives
q  Partners
q  Approach/Methodology
q  Expected outcomes
q  Current progress

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Introduction Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Food grain supply chain system

Central
Procurement Deficit Fair price
Farmers     distribution Consumers
centres states shops
system

Vegetable and fruits supply chains

Central  
Farmers     Agents     distribu1on   Retail  stores   Consumers  
system  

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Food supply chains in India Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

and Switzerland
Parwez (2014): 25-30% of food wasted due to inadequate
infrastructure and highly inefficient supply chains

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (2013): 21 million


India tonnes of wheat lost per year

Singh (2010): Monetary value of losses = INR 50,000 crores


(7’808 million US dollars) per year

Willersinn et al. (2017) analysed the Environmental impacts


of food losses along the entire Swiss potato supply chain

Betz et al. (2014) worked on the problem of food loss in the


Switzerland food service industry and assessed the level of waste.

Willersinn et al. (2015) investigated the quantity and quality


of food losses along the Swiss potato supply chain.

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The basic concept of Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

sustainability

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Need of sustainability in Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

agri-food supply chain


Challenges of agri-food supply chain

Growing demand of food due to


increasing world population

Food wastage ( Annually worldwide 1.3


billion tones of food gets wasted)

Providing support to farmers and


employment to people Sustainable agri-food supply chain
(Economic, Social and Environmental)
Water and Carbon Footprint of Food
supply chains

Energy consumption at farming level and


food processing stage

Product bulkiness, perishability,


seasonability, food safety and quality
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Objectives Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

To analyse practices in agri-food supply chain design and management in India


1   and in Switzerland

To compare the data regarding the impact of the management of agri-


2   supply chains on the economic, societal and environmental performances

To benchmark best practices for understanding and managing agri supply


3   chains of both countries

To propose lean strategies to minimize non value-added activities from


4   collection to storage of food using optimal utilization of storage capacity.

To study and recommend approaches to minimize the food wastage impact on


5   environment’s valuable resources such as land, water and energy.

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Project partners Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Project collaborators
Prof. Ravi Shankar just completed tri-lateral
international research project on “Next Generation
Sustainable Freight Transportation (NEX-GIFT)”.
Swiss collaborator He isIndian
also the co-investigator in European Union funded
collaborator
research project on “Efficient & Sustainable Freight
Transportation.”
Prof. Naoufel Cheikhrouhou leads a research project
Prof.
fully funded by foodNaoufel Prof. Manoj
companies in Switzerland (Nestlé, Prof. Ravi
Nespresso andCheikhrouhou
ECOM). Kumar Tiwari Shankar
Handled several research projects in the area of
Geneva School of Business Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology,
sustainable supply chains
Administration Kharagpur Delhi

Ph.D. Mr. Dnyaneshwar


Inès Burrus
student Mogale
Prof. Tiwari is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the inter-
disciplinary project entitled “Sustainable Food Security
through Technological Interventions for Production,
Processing and Logistics” which involves the other three
departments. It is sponsored by Ministry of Human
Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India.
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Approach/ Methodology Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Data collection from various reports related to


Indian and Swiss agri-food supply chain system,
online portals of food system of both countries,
Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO)
reports

Field visits, interviews and questionnaire


surveys

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for identification


and quantification of environmental impacts of
food wastage

Multi-objective modeling by integrating the


economic, environmental and social dimensions of
sustainability  

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Expected outcomes Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Scientific side Cooperation side

A framework for benchmarking best


practices in food supply chains in both Three visits between India and
countries Switzerland.

A public database on the impact of the


management of agri-supply chains on
the environmental, the societal and the Development of MoU on research and
economic performances education between the three partners.

A proposal for an effective and


efficient design and management of
sustainable Agri-food supply Development of one new joint research
networks in both countries proposal on sustainable supply chains to be
submitted for funding to the EU framework
Programme ‘Horizon 2020’.
Three (3) joint publications in high
impact scientific journals

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Timeline Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Tentative
Schedule Oct’17- Dec’17- Feb’18- Apr’18- July’18- Sept’17
Work
Nov’17 Jan’18 Mar’18 June’18 Aug’18 Oct’18

Practice Analysis/ state


of the art development

Objective II

Objective III

Objective IV

Objective V  

Report writing
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Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

References  

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References Founding the pillars for Sustainable
Agri-Food Supply Chain Management

Parwez, S. (2014). African Journal of Business Management Food supply chain management in
Indian Agriculture: Issues, opportunities and further research 8 (14), 572 581.

Report of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, (2013). Global food waste not, want not.

Singh, P. K. (2010). A decentralized and holistic approach for grain management in


India. Current Science, 99(9), 1179–1180.

Willersinn, C., Möbius, S., Mouron, P., Lansche, J., & Mack, G. (2017). Environmental impacts of
food losses along the entire Swiss potato supply chain–Current situation and reduction
potentials. Journal of Cleaner Production, 140, 860-870.

Betz, A., Buchli, J., Göbel, C., & Müller, C. (2015). Food waste in the Swiss food service
industry–Magnitude and potential for reduction. Waste Management, 35, 218-226.  

Willersinn, C., Mack, G., Mouron, P., Keiser, A., & Siegrist, M. (2015). Quantity and quality of
food losses along the Swiss potato supply chain: Stepwise investigation and the influence of
quality standards on losses. Waste Management, 46, 120-132.
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