Swot Analysis Of Agricultural Industry : Food Regulation, Distribution, And Consumption Of Foods

Besides the environmental factors, another point would be that small farms benefit greatly when consumers buy locally grown foods. Small, locally owned farms

The National Agro-Food policy has incorporated strategies that are in line with the nutritional aspects of the food system. The programs implemented under the policy include increased food production through optimization and sustainable land, development and upgrading agriculture infrastructure and increase the quality and safety of food by expanding the compliance of standard. Efforts have also been taken to strengthen human capital and to ensure sufficient skill labor force in the agricultural sector. This includes the use of modern technology and mechanization to reduce the dependency of manpower. The government also provides sector-based incentives to encourage the private sector to invest in the agriculture and agro-based industry.

Astyk and Newton, in their essay: The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Go Hungry, explains that “around the world, industrial agriculture has consolidated land ownership into the hands of smaller and smaller populations” destroying local self-sufficiency (518). Individuals are no longer able to grow own fresh, healthy foods to feed their family. They now depend on industrially grown crops and processed foods loaded with chemicals for food. Additionally, because of the farm policy, farmers that continue to cultivate healthy produce like fruits and vegetables get little or no government support, thus the higher prices of fresh produce seen today at our grocery stores.

There are a number of factors that impact food distribution, such as level of income, wealth and the distribution of equity, the rise of fuel costs, international relations, government subsidies, regulations and policies, to name a few.

There is a market trend of supply and demand in an economy and this is measured through the equilibrium process and the actors that affect supply and demand. The farmers are the market suppliers and hence they determine their produce by measuring the equilibrium market prices and quantities. The suppliers are aware that when the prices of commodity increases the demand of the same commodity decrease and when demand increases supply decreases until the market reaches an equilibrium point. There are various factors that affect

Different groups are being affected such as the farmers, the people who cannot afford organic food, and the industrial farm companies. The farmers are affected by the industrial farms because they are the competition. The farmers’ fruits and vegetables are expensive comparing to the industrial farms companies. The people are affected chemicals sprayed to the produce causes health problems on long run such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. Furthermore, the industrial farms companies are affected because people are teaching the communities how industrial farms grow their

Local farmers tend to be more expensive than big corporation produce due to lack of economies of scale and due to the traditional ways of farming which is less efficient thus cornering some farmers to give up in the face of bigger competition. These few corporations that now control the market have benefitted from economies of scale and made it much harder for new entrants to compete since they use technological advances to stay efficient and mass produce so they can sell at cheaper price. All this said, shows that the agribusiness is evolving and making great use of technology whether it’s to increase yield or make perfect produce. But have we stopped and thought about our

Sprouts Farmer’s Market, an organic and natural grocery retailer, came about through the creation of the Boney family fruit stand in Arizona that became a market called Henry’s that expanded into Texas. Originally, they sold it to a group called Wild Oats, but Wild Oats eventually was sold to Whole Foods. The Boney family continued to develop a new natural market that was the first version of Sprouts and after they expanded into Texas and California, they combined with Henry’s again and a group called Sunflower under the umbrella of Apollo Management to become Sprouts as it is today and has been available for public trading since 2013. As of today, Sprouts has over 275 stores, launched their mobile couponing venture last year

producers as well as the fact that individual farmers are simply too insignificant to affect an

(167). Heavy taxes on agriculture leads to low productivity and low output (Dennis). New technology is not as efficient: “The heavy harvesting equipment that now does the work of the harvesting has left larger amounts of grain in the field…” (Holthaus 135). Holthaus describes the loss of access to the markets as a result of more contacting and the “growing influence of transnational megacorporations.” Farmers are no longer in control of agriculture; they have little say in what crops to grow and have to listen to the contracted company. Farmers no longer farm for the market, they farm to be able to pay the bank or to meet a contract with a company (167). When farmers decide to contract, they become another worker in the industrial system of agriculture. Farmers lose their markets, which are taken over by large corporations; and lose a percentage of their profit (Holthaus 150). According to “American Farms Keep Growing: Size, Productivity, and Policy,” about 30% of American farms have any significant farm production. 6 percent of all farms account for three-fourths of US farm output.The loss of political power and influence is due to less farmers and their families living on the land, aswell as, less people living in rural communities, which means that they have less authority and voting powers (167). The health of

occasionally shopped in corner stores throughout New Brunswick to pick up a few basic necessities. While shopping, I noticed some fruits and vegetables being sold including potatoes, onions, yams, avocados, apples, bananas, and oranges. There is usually a large selection of canned goods, but rarely any fresh, leafy-greens. Food choices are severely limited, and many food deserts contain an overabundance of fast food chains selling cheap, overly processed foods that are high in fat, sugar and salt. Researchers from the University of Connecticut’s Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity published a study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health that compared the obesity rate of the United States to their ratio

In light of this, I would like to explore research frontiers in the area of the challenges of managing food and farm businesses in a global setting of the 21st Century. In our society beleaguered by agricultural problems that ranges from economic to environmental problems such as weather and global warming, issues concerning trade and management of agricultural enterprises has been the topic of debate for the past decade. Many developing/poor countries who earn their living from agriculture continuously suffer from poverty and hunger as a result of the increasing pressures on the world's resource base. Policymakers are gripped with finding solutions to problems such as structural and technological constraints, inappropriate domestic policies and an unfavourable external economic environment. As a result, the growth of these economies has been slow, undernourishment has been increasing and the marginalization of these countries in the global economy has continued. This trend has created problems for developing countries over the past decade. Economic and financial

Associated British Foods PLC is a British multinational food processing and retailing company which was founded in the year 1935 by a Canadian named Willard Garfield Weston and from that date the rest is history. (Grace’s Guide, 2016).

When considering the challenges and opportunities posed by EU non market policies, we must look at both the food producer and the manufacturer as both can have positive and negative reactions. Going forward, global warming is now high on the agenda of policy makers. With agriculture a high contributor, it is unsurprising that measures are being introduced that have effect on the producers’ and manufacturers’. The buzz word now associated with the future of the environment and the food industry is “sustainability”. This refers to sustainable growth as the producers (farmers) try to maximise output. Moreover, with world populations set to dramatically increase up to 2050, the EU and the world must find ways to promote food production. Therefore, policies are now becoming more difficult and multifunctional. This is symbolised through the increasing awareness of the environment and it becoming more and more apparent in the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). “The industry realises the need to protect and, where possible, improve biodiversity. Given that the industry’s raw materials are grown in the natural environment, and the industry purchases and processes 70% of EU agricultural production, it is essential that agricultural practices are sustainable.” FoodDrink Europe. (2011). It is here in the CAP that I have found non-market policies to have impacted both positively and, at times, negatively on the food producers and manufacturers operating in the EU. The

Egypt is classified as a low-income, food-deficit country (LIFDC). In 1999 the country imported 7.9 million tons of grains or 50 percent of its needs. The Government’s strategic options for agriculture (up to 2017) include the following thematic elements: a) Achieve higher growth rate of 4.1 percent in the agricultural sector through vertical and horizontal expansion. b) Promote more efficient use of land and water, enhance agricultural research and extension, expand credit, and improve marketing cooperatives. c) Increase the value of exports by over two-fold (with respect to the current level), based on quality assurance and product safety, which are key to competitiveness under the World Trade Organization (WTO) policies and partnership agreements with the European Union (EU) and the United States. d) Develop livestock, poultry and fish resources to increase daily per capita animal protein consumption from 18 grams to 24 grams (Country Programmes 2001). There have been extensive introduction of new technologies and significant improvements in agricultural extension, marketing and credit. These efforts, together with area expansion through land reclamation, had contributed to an increase in agricultural production from 2.6 percent in the 1980s to 3.4 percent in the 1990s. The area available for cultivation increased from 2.6 million ha in 1982 to 3.3 million ha in 1995. In a given year, this area is used more than once; the average total cropped in a year amounts to 180