Enterra Insights

JUNE 20, 2023

Disruptions to the global agriculture value chains are more devastating than disruptions in other supply chains. ” The most publicized conflict-related disruptions to the global agriculture value chain have been those associated with Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

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Taulia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Navigating legislation in the agri-food industry is a complex process. To maintain a healthy cash flow, companies of all sizes need to assess this legislation’s impact on alternative financing programs like supplier finance and how this could affect both buyers and suppliers in the food supply chain.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 6, 2023

When Russia invaded Ukraine, which is one of the world’s breadbasket countries, a bright light was shone on the global food supply chain. The magazine explains, “The global food supply is vulnerable to men with guns. Indeed, of the 828m people who do not get enough food, nearly 60% live in countries racked by conflict.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to speak at the Agro&Food Security Forum in Warsaw, Poland. The event gathered government representatives of Ukraine and Poland, leading Ukrainian experts and market operators, as well as the international agricultural community. The war in Ukraine has essentially fueled a global food crisis.

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2022

One of the topics discussed at the recent COP-27 gathering in Egypt was global food security. Patricia Scotland ( @PScotlandCSG ), Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, told COP-27 participants that every available tool must be leveraged to improve food security. The Pursuit of Food Security. ”[2].

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, we rely heavily on the agricultural and food service sectors to ensure that the products we put into our bodies are safe to eat. If they’re not safe, they shouldn’t be called food. Food safety is currently a hot topic. Food safety therefore remains a top priority for consumers and legislators.”[3]

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 28, 2022

In these times of global turmoil, there are five (5) important megatrends shaping supply chain innovations in the coming years, namely in e-fulfillment, sourcing, food and agriculture, labour intensive operations, and halal supply chain management. This requires centralised e-fulfillment centres and collaboration in last-mile delivery.

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

MAY 15, 2023

The Green Corridor: Eating Into Our Future Agricultural Emissions – What is Happening? We all need food to survive and for most that takes talking about the emissions associated with food production “off the table”. There are two areas of concern when it comes to the agriculture sector. What More Can be Done?

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Enterra Insights

JULY 14, 2022

With an ever-increasing number of mouths to feed and climate change affecting the agriculture sector in significant ways, the staff at Bayer reports, “The impact of climate change has led to a vicious combination of resource scarcity, harvest loss, and soil degradation.”[1] ” Benefits of Indoor Farming.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 8, 2023

The focus of these shows is watching contestants’ search for food and seeing how they deal with the hunger that ultimately results when such efforts prove fruitless. Savage notes that 2022 “was the fourth year in a row that the number in urgent need of food aid has risen.”

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The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

APRIL 19, 2023

Are Our Agri-Food Supply Chains In Crisis? The result of this cocktail is an unfortunate reduction in global agri-food production, export, and rapidly increasing agri-food commodity prices. Are our agri-food supply chains in crisis? Do we need to relook at how we organise our agri-food supply chains?

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the world’s population continuing to grow and climate change altering growing conditions around much of the world, food security has become one of humanity’s most pressing issues. As in the past, technology also has a role to play in improving agricultural output. Farming 4.0.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The United Nations has predicted the agricultural industry will need to achieve a 70 per cent rise in overall food production in order to feed the estimated 9.1 Many experts are hoping that digital agriculture (aka Farming 4.0) billion people expected to be living on the planet a quarter century from now. ” Markets matter.

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 12, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting every global economic sector including agriculture. Harbor Research analysts explain what happened during the last agricultural transformation: “ With the advent of the industrial age, when society changed from an agrarian base to an industrial base, the way humans worked became more mechanized.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 3, 2023

2] Whether you view the West’s response to Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine as a fight for democracy or an attempt to secure the global food value chain, it’s clear that most Western leaders understand how critical Ukraine’s agricultural sector is to the rest of the world. Grain, like oil, is fungible.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Some experts are now referring to the technological revolution unfolding in agriculture as “Farming 4.0.” ” Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) add, “Over the past decade, public and private sources have dedicated impressive amounts of energy and resources to digital agriculture in developing countries.”[2]

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 2, 2022

“Conflict breeds hunger,” writes Marie Haga, Associate Vice-President of External Relations and Governance at the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development. “It can displace farmers and destroy agricultural assets and food stocks. World Food Program. ”[2]. 4] Husain agrees.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2023

Tomorrow, 26 April 2023, is international Stop Food Waste Day. According the Stop Food Waste Day website , “Stop Food Waste Day is the largest single day of action in the fight against food waste. Food waste only exacerbates the challenge — and it’s everywhere. ” Why all the fuss?

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Enterra Insights

JANUARY 10, 2022

Prior to the pandemic, Shenggen Fan ( @ShenggenFan ), while serving as the Director General of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), lamented, “It has become painfully clear that we have faltered in our progress towards meeting the U.N. ” Climate Change and Food Resilience. ”[1].

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Logistics Viewpoints

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nearly eight in 10 (78%) consumers consider food waste, likely out of a desire to minimize spending. Lower-income consumers and those using food assistance programs care the most about food waste as a purchase driver—again, suggesting it is a response to higher prices.” Am I alone in this habit or thinking?

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This year, Mr. Ellison spun a vision of how the global agricultural industry’s value chain could be reconstructed to improve the quality of food while making the industry much more sustainable. According to Mr. Ellison, food grown indoors with AI powered greenhouses has the potential to use 98% less water and 90% less land.

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Enterra Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2022

A recent article published by the World Economic Forum ran under a headline declaring the global food supply chain dead.[1] Nevertheless, it draws on a comment made by UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who stated, “This year’s food crisis is about lack of access. Next year’s could be about lack of food.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

PepsiCo is a very big company, the second largest food and beverage company in the world. PepsiCo generated $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, with 23 food and beverage brands that generate more than $1 billion each in retail sales. Because of the food giant’s size, their sustainability strategy also is very broad.

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Enterra Insights

APRIL 25, 2022

Against an already turbulent backdrop of global inflationary pressures amid rising food and energy prices and disrupted supply chains following the coronavirus pandemic, the war between Russia and Ukraine is exacerbating supply and demand tensions, damaging consumer sentiment, and is threatening global economic growth.”[1]

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In the 1973 movie Soylent Green , starring Charlton Heston, the world is over-populated and climate change has wreaked havoc on the agricultural sector. As a way of introducing the primary source of food (and title of the movie), an announcer states, “Governor Santini is brought to you today by Soylent Red, and Soylent Yellow.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

… As the effort continues to mature, DOT will work with the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase data transparency for containerized shipments of agricultural products in the United States, efforts that can help producers and sellers avoid disruptions that can increase food prices.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In fact, to kick off the holiday shopping season, a record 200.4 million shoppers hit the stores and the internet to capitalize on Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, according to a survey by the National Retail Federation. The turnout topped last year’s figure of 196.7 The number of people shopping online rose to 134.2 million people this year.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

In the years ahead, with the rise of urban agriculture, both dreams could come true. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) appears to define city agriculture as a hobby, indicating it “takes the form of backyard, roof-top and balcony gardening, community gardening in vacant lots and parks, roadside urban fringe agriculture.”[1]

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SCM Research

APRIL 22, 2021

The importance of food supply chain emissions has increased. According to a study, entitled Food Systems Are Responsible for a Third of Global Anthropogenic GHG Emissions , recently published in Nature Food by Monica Crippa et al. 2021), our food systems emit 34% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions every year.

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Enterra Insights

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

That’s putting stress on consumer budgets and the bottom lines of restaurants, bakeries and other food producers that rely heavily on eggs.” observe, “The rising cost of eggs and the increasing costs of other food items has left many American families feeling the squeeze in their weekly or monthly grocery budget.”[3]

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QAD

APRIL 14, 2022

Over the last quarter to half century, there has been more than a passing concern if there will be enough farming space to satisfy the food demands of the future. Through the use of science and inventive technology, the future of agriculture and food production is finally looking up. What is Vertical Farming?

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

A growing population, intensifying climate change, and geopolitical tensions are creating conditions that are adversely affecting global food security. However, another, less obvious factor — food waste — is exacerbating the food security challenge. All one needs to do to find someone wasting food is look in the mirror.

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Enterra Insights

AUGUST 17, 2022

A growing population, intensifying climate change, and geopolitical tensions are creating conditions that are adversely affecting global food security. However, another, less obvious factor — food waste — is exacerbating the food security challenge. All one needs to do to find someone wasting food is look in the mirror.

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ThroughPut

MARCH 28, 2024

Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within different segments of the Food Industry, including transportation and logistics, production planning, quality control, and others has kicked off revolutionary transformations. The market size of AI in the food industry , including the beverages sector is set to cross USD 9.68

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 16, 2021

One of the least welcome consequences of supply chain snarls and labor shortages is rising inflation — and the food industry has been impacted like every other economic sector. Food prices have been on the rise for months. ”[2] The USDA went on to predict, “In 2022, food-at-home prices are expected to increase between 1.5

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Elementum

AUGUST 29, 2022

The global food supply chain has grown exponentially over the last few decades, creating complexity and challenges that translate into empty store shelves and a lack of basic provisions. Today, we will look at the importance of supply chain management in food production and some solutions to prevent further crises.

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Enterra Insights

JUNE 27, 2022

Department of Agriculture (USDA) has raised its 2022 food inflation forecasts again reports Jim Wiesemeyer ( @Jim_Wiesemeyer ).[1] 1] This means today’s grocery food price hikes are the highest in 42 Years. ”[2] Their research found, “Consumer prices for food, personal care, and household items are up 13.9%

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