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    Food for Thought
    Food for Thought
    Food for Thought
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    Food for Thought

    By Ram Garikipati

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    The role of the Food Industry in helping consumers eat healthily and sustainably received considerable attention in recent years. While the food companies continue to produce enough affordable, quality food for the fast-growing and increasingly prosperous global population, they face a very challenging and volatile environment. Despite being a multi-trillion dollar industry, the worldwide food business’ annual growth is limited to the world’s population base. Competition is intense within the industry, especially in mature markets.This handbook is a compilation of 5 essays on the various important issues that the industry should always monitor. These include: Water Challenges, Food Waste, Climate Change, IP Rights, and Aging Population.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRam Garikipati
    Release dateFeb 3, 2014
    ISBN9781310177712
    Food for Thought
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    Ram Garikipati

    With 26+ years experience in Business Journalism/ Corporate Communications, I am now a freelance business writer and editor based in Hyderabad, India. I regularly contribute to newspapers and journals on economic issues. Prior to this, I was a Copy Editor/ Columnist with The Korea Herald, the leading English-daily in South Korea. I was based in Seoul for 17 years. Before that I was Chief Editor of a bimonthly magazine published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs in Korea.Earlier, I worked as Chief Editor/ Corporate Communications of EUCCK, where I was responsible for Press Relations, which includes interacting with the media on a regular basis, clarifying their story inputs, issuing press releases and arranging media interviews for the President Group (President, 2 Vice-Presidents, Treasurer and Secretary General) of EUCCK.I was also responsible for the in house business magazines- INFOMAG and INFOMAG REAL ESTATE. From start to finish, I was in charge of planning, interviews, writing, editing, design and marketing of the magazines, heading a team of six.Even before, I worked in The Hindu Business Line newspaper (www.thehindubusinessline.com) at New Delhi from 1995 to 2004. I was responsible for Telecom & IT coverage of both government policy and corporate sectors and a fortnightly columnist and editorial writer. Earlier in my career at the same organization, I covered banking, macro-economic issues and infrastructure.I am currently working on two novels- a sequel to SCATTERED FATES, and a fiction on 5 global religious icons (Jew/Christian/Islam/ Hindu/Buddhism) meeting together at Central Park New York.

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      Food for Thought - Ram Garikipati

      Introduction

      The role of the Food Industry in helping consumers eat healthily and sustainably received considerable attention in recent years. While the food companies continue to produce enough affordable, quality food for the fast-growing and increasingly prosperous global population, they face a very challenging and volatile environment.

      Despite being a multi-trillion-dollar industry, the worldwide food business’ annual growth is limited to the world’s population base. Competition is intense within the industry, especially in mature markets.

      The need to understand changing consumer needs, innovate effectively and put goods on the shelf at a price that works for manufacturer, customer and consumer continues. Food companies that meet these challenges with a well-designed and well-executed strategy can do well, however, many are still grappling with the challenges that confront them.

      This handbook is a compilation of 5 essays on the various important issues that the industry should always monitor. These include: Water Challenges, Food Waste, Climate Change, IP Rights, and Aging Population. They were first published in a bi-monthly magazine of the Ministry of Food, South Korea, and written by the author.

      Water Challenges for the Food Industry

      The role of the food industry in helping consumers eat healthily and sustainably has been receiving considerable attention in recent years. There are many challenges the industry faces, in securing the future supply of food –water being among the most important.

      The United Nations declared 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation. The objective was to raise awareness, both on the potential for increased cooperation, and on the challenges facing water management in light of the increased demand for water access, allocation and services.

      The year highlighted the history of successful water cooperation, as well as identified issues on education, diplomacy, trans boundary water management, financing, national and international legal frameworks, and linkages with the Millennium Development Goals. It also provided an opportunity to capitalize on the momentum created at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), and to support the formulation of new objectives that will contribute towards developing water resources that are truly sustainable.

      Water, a vital resource unlike any other knows no borders. But for perhaps the first time in history, global demand may outstrip supply. The world’s population is around 7 billion people and by 2050 it may well grow to 9 billion. And by that time, 70% of the people will be urbanized. Cities may take less than 1% of the land, but they can take up to 20% of the water. As rapid urbanization, climate change and growing food needs put ever-increasing pressure on freshwater resources; the objective of the year is to draw attention to the benefits of cooperation in water management. It will serve to highlight successful examples of water cooperation and explore key issues, including water diplomacy, trans-boundary water management and financial cooperation.

      The potential for water cooperation is great and its benefits, whether in economic, social or environmental terms, are considerable. All water systems are extremely complex, be they management systems at the local or national level, internationally shared river basins or parts of the natural hydrological cycle. Managing these systems requires multiple actors, from users and managers to experts from various disciplines and decision-makers.

      Cooperation is crucial not only to ensure the sustainable and equitable distribution of water but also to foster and maintain peaceful relations within and among communities. At the government level, different ministries can cooperate and mainstream awareness on water management into other sectors; at the community level users can cooperate through water users’ associations; at the trans boundary level joint management institutions can help to distribute and protect shared resources; and at the international level the various UN agencies can work together to promote the sustainable management of water worldwide.

      Cooperation mechanisms vary in terms of decision-making structures, levels of participation and rules and regulations. They can take the form of informal agreements or formal institutions, and they range from a simple exchange of information to joint management mechanisms.

      While governments the world over are geared up to meet the water challenges, what about the corporate sector?

      Water in Industrial Use

      Agriculture at present uses the lion's share of water worldwide, with between 70% and 90% of all water in most regions. As noted by Dr. Ania Grobicki, Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, in her study on ‘The Future of Water Use in Industry,’ interestingly, the East Asia/Pacific region and sub-Saharan Africa are the two exceptions to this, with industrial water use taking a large proportion of water, but for opposite reasons: in East Asia/Pacific, industry has grown extremely rapidly and often unsustainably in recent years. Industry now provides 48% of the total GDP in the region, and this proportion is still increasing.

      On the other hand, in sub-Saharan Africa, industry takes a large share of total water use not because the industrial sector is especially strong, but because

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