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Suvra Chakraborty is invited to speak at the IFC - International Finance Corporation 11th International Food Safety Forum in Tashkent on 21st of May. The forum aims to spotlight innovative innovative solutions for a secure and sustainable future, with leading representatives from public and private sector sharing their best practices. Suvra will be joining the panel discussion on the topic of: "Food Safety Strategies for Sustainable Growth", the panel will be discussing: 🍅 Strategic priorities set by FAO for global food safety over the next nine years 📈 Uzbekistan's agricultural development strategies and their impact on industry competitiveness and foreign investment 🤝 Collaborative approaches involving public, private, and international sectors to enhance holistic food safety strategies The panel will be joined by: Lukas Casey - Manager, IFC - International Finance Corporation Kairat Mazhibayev - Founder and Chairman of the Board, RG Brands Kazakhstan Odiljon Tohirov - Deputy Director, Uzstandard Agency Bahodir Yusupaliyev - Director, Uzbekistan’s Agency of Sanitary and Epidemiological Wellbeing (ASEW) Laura Bergibayeva - Sales Director, KazFoodProducts #FoodSafety #AgriculturalDevelopment #GlobalStrategy #PublicPrivatePartnerships #InternationalCollaboration #SustainableFood #UzbekistanEconomy Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dDGD-CVH

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

At a recent ACD (Asia Cooperation Dialogue) Summit hosted by Qatar, Thailand’s Prime Minister outlined the country’s vision for enhancing global food security, proposing Thailand as a global food hub. Commerce Minister Pichai praised the summit’s success and the Prime Minister’s leadership. The Prime Minister received international recognition, being named one of the 100 most influential people of the future by a magazine. He stressed the importance of food security, especially given the instability in the Middle East. Thailand aims to produce and deliver food to these countries within 24 hours during shortages. This initiative has attracted interest from the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman. The Thai government seeks to strengthen food storage and supply cooperation with these nations, enhancing economic ties and providing high-quality food products. This initiative is expected to benefit Thai farmers and entrepreneurs by opening new markets in the Middle East and establishing Thailand as a key player in global food security. How to deliver Thai PM Promises: How to Deliver Thai PM’s Promises: According to a recap from totrade.co, the Thai government plans to leverage the Water-Energy-Food Nexus to achieve these goals. This approach emphasizes the interconnectedness of water, energy, and food systems to ensure sustainable and efficient resource management123. By integrating these sectors, Thailand aims to enhance its capacity to produce and deliver food rapidly and reliably. 1. totrade.co/food: Focuses on innovative agricultural practices and technologies to boost food production. 2. totrade.co/water: Ensures efficient water management and conservation techniques to support agriculture and food processing. 3. totrade.co/energy: Promotes the use of renewable energy sources to power food production and distribution, reducing environmental impact. With water and energy provided from Laos, this comprehensive strategy is designed to strengthen Thailand’s role in global food security while fostering economic growth and sustainability.

Introducing the latest edition of Food Business Africa Magazine  Here's a sneak peek at what's inside: 📌 #CoverStory: Explore the South African Bureau of Standards with Acting CEO Lungelo Ntobongwana as he shares SABS's approach to standardization. 📌 #CocoaCrisis: Discover how rising cocoa prices challenge chocolatiers worldwide. 📌 #CiderinAfrica: Unveil the untapped potential of the African cider market. 📌 #SugarReduction: Discover the sweet spot between health, sustainability, and taste. 📌 #WorkplaceSafety: Learn about the significance of hazard identification and risk assessment in ensuring a safe work environment 📌 #ExecutiveInterview: Gain exclusive insights from Geremew Tassew, Country Program Manager of Alliance for Inclusive and Nutritious Food Processing - AINFP, as he champions food safety. Don't miss out on this wealth of knowledge! Grab your digital copy now via the uploaded PDF or follow the link below to access the latest issue: https://lnkd.in/dEnK-7fg #foodbusiness #innovation #foodindustry #cocoacrisis #ciderrevolution #sugarreduction #workplacesafety #foodsafety #industryinsights #beverages

#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

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 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

How will regional trade and economic integration shape ASEAN food security discussions post-2025, and what steps can we take to shift our focus from traditional country-level food security to a truly integrated regional approach centered on interlinked food supply chain security? Find out more on RSIS Commentary, "Food Security Beyond Borders: Securing ASEAN’s Food Supply Chains" by Jose Ma. Luis P. Montesclaros, Paul Teng. #RSIS #RSIScommentary

As ASEAN reaches the end point of its 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟲-𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗔𝗘𝗖 𝗕𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁 📘, there has been much discussion on its state of implementation, whether any of the assumptions behind it have evolved in light of new recent challenges, and how the post-2025 strategy would need to be tweaked (or made over). In our recent brief think piece, Paul Teng and I seek to contribute to these, by raising some potential considerations: 🥧   Given geographical limits to self-sufficiency at the country level (through domestic production), 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘣𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘮 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺-𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘚𝘌𝘈𝘕 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴? 👨🏽🌾 👩🏽🌾   If so, then given geopolitical disruptions on ASEAN’s access to food production inputs (fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides for crops, or feeds for livestock), 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘱𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰? 💭   Moving forward then, should trade continue to be relegated to a supporting role (improving international and regional trade integration to achieve greater access to affordable food supplies), 𝘰𝘳 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘺-𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴? 🔺 Given the trade-offs between domestic food stocks and exports, and intra-and extra-regional trade, we argue that the herculean challenge for ASEAN will be how to strike a delicate balance: an integrated market and a single production area as part of the ASEAN Economic Community, which 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 caters to the needs of the region’s poorest populations. 𝘐𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘻-𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦, 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯?

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