Food security and safety

Safe, Sustainable, Transparent Tracing System for Agricultural Products

I Han, Min-Hsien Yang
Source: Council of Agriculture (http://www.coa.gov.tw/ws.php?id=2503971) According to the “Agricultural Product and Verification Act”, the Council of Agriculture (COA) has been promoting the Traceable Agricultural Products (TAP) system since 2007. The tracing system was set to promote...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Food security and safety
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Food Waste in Malaysia: Trends, Current Practices and Key Challenges

Siti Wahidah Abd Ghafar
INTRODUCTION Wasted food is a considerable component of the world’s food system challenges. Food waste can be described as all edible food materials produced for human consumption but left uneaten, either lost or discarded throughout the food supply chain, from farm to fork. It is organic...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Food security and safety
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Our Food Our Future: Revitalizing the Ecosystem in Malaysia*

Indu Bala Jaganath
Malaysia as a country has the right to define and control its food sovereignty but the country is open and vulnerable to the challenges of the environment, urbanization, changing demographics, and rising amounts of food waste. Thus, Malaysia desperately needs a food revolution movement where...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Food security and safety
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Traceability and Food Labeling of Rice in Japan

Yoshihisa Godo
INTRODUCTION Rice is a staple food in Japan. Consumers are sensitive about the variety of rice, its location, and time of harvest, when they are purchasing rice or foods containing rice from a retailer or if they are dining at a restaurant. However, these aspects are difficult to judge from the...
Country: Japan Topic: Food security and safety
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Study on Food Security Status and Coping Strategies of Rural Households in Myingyan Township, Dry Zone Area, Myanmar

Thandar Win Maung
ABSTRACT This study emphasized the estimation of the food security status and coping strategies employed to cope with food insecurity and better understanding of major determinants of per capita food expenditure at household level in Myingyan Township. To examine rural household’s access to...
Country: Myanmar Topic: Food security and safety
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