Emerging Challenges

Food System: The chain of activities ranging from production to consumption.

  • Distribution
  • Consumption
  • Processing/Packaging
  • Disposal
  • Production

FS

  • The food we eat reaches us via food supply chains through which food moves in a domino-like motion from producers to consumers.
  • A food supply chain is domino-like: When one part of the food supply chain is affected, the whole food supply chain is affected (which is often manifested through changes in price).
  • The steps of supply chain requires human and/or natural resources.

Food Supply Chain:
Food Production →
Food Processing/Packaging →
Food Distribution →
Grocery & Retail/Food Services →
Food Consumers

GHG

  • The increasing heat in the atmosphere leads to global warming.

This is a gaseous compound in the atmosphere that is capable of absorbing infrared radiation, thereby trapping and holding heat in the atmosphere

Sources

  • Bacterial Decomposition
  • Livestock Manure
  • Transporting Food Products
  • Clearing Forests
  • Use of Nitrogen-based Fertilizer;
  • Cattle Belching
  • Decomposition of Food Waste in Landfill;

Causes

  • temperature extremes, heat waves, and heavy rains will continue to escalate in frequency
  • The earth’s temperature and seas will continue to rise into the next millennium
  • increase in global temperature is a result of human activities.
  • Running Machinery

Vulnerabilities in Supply Chain

  • fuel shortage;
  • workforce constraints; and
  • loss of transport links to and between cities;
  • material disruption of local or imported foods
  • loss of distribution centre facilities (i.e. power);