1. Resilience of Global Food Supply
Chains
Darren Briggs, Associate Director, Arup

2. Creating Resilience in Supply Chains

3. The food supply chain and its
dependencies

4. Crisis Country Clusters: World Vision

5. Technology and Political Changes

6. Conducting the Research

7. Drivers of Supply Chain Resilience:
Measurement
ResilienceVisibility
Risk Management
Value Segmentation
& Product
Rationalisation

8. Infrastructure Resilience
• Most industry and academic supply chain resilience
research primarily focuses on continuity which is in
the control of suppliers
• Besides route planning, logistical network links are
rarely improved upon by suppliers, as the actual
links (i.e. major infrastructure) are beyond their
control and they are wholly dependent and reliant
on asset owners.
• Infrastructure is fundamental to supply chain
resilience – if businesses are the life blood of
our economy, infrastructure is the arteries,
veins and capillaries that transport goods (such
as food, livestock, raw materials) across the earth

10. Key issues

11. Localised key issues
New York

• Availability of labour
• Communication
infrastructure failure
• Severe weather
events (e.g. tornado,
etc)
Madrid

• Poor planning
• Lack of access to
information/data
• Poor governance
Johannesburg

• Communication
infrastructure failure
• Poor governance
• Economic instability
Hong Kong

• Communication
infrastructure
failure
• Cyber crime
• Industrial accidents
Brisbane

• Flooding
• Communication
infrastructure failure
• Water scarcity and
contamination
Manchester

• Poor planning
• Lack of access to
information/data
• FloodingSan Francisco

• Poor planning
• Water scarcity and
contamination
• Utilities
infrastructure
failure

12. Opportunities for Action
New York

• Green technology
• Cross harbour
intermodal tunnel
• Public awareness
• Networks and
hardware
• Data analytics
• Increased
automation
• Control and
governance
Madrid

• Policy coherence
• Integrated planning
• Control and
governance
• Public-private
collaboration
• Improve education
• Cyber awareness
• Technological
education
Johannesburg

• Appropriate education
• Control and
governance
• Measure and monitor
policies
• Integrated planning
• Traceability
• Supply chain metrics
Hong Kong

• Policy review of food
supply chain
infrastructure
• Collaboration with
government
• Develop underground
facilities
• Automation and
digitalisation not useful
(too expensive)
Brisbane

• Pooling resources
• Capacity development
for SMEs
• Better cyber crime
protection
• Governances and
collaboration
• Intermodal alignment
• Storage capacity
• Infrastructure
Manchester

• Integrated modal policies
• Better education
• Business continuity
• Best practice guides
• Register of infrastructure
• Intermodal supply chains
San Francisco

• Integrated decisions
on infrastructure
• Emergency food hubs
• Understanding
systems
• Life cycle impact of
infrastructure
• Coordinated planning
• Regenerative
agriculture
infrastructure

13. Conclusions
• Appropriate education and public awareness on why
resilience of infrastructure is so important;
• Better integrated planning across all modes for the
design, construction and commissioning of
infrastructure to consider resilience;
• Intermodal integration (road, rail, sea, inland
waterways and air);
• Improved government engagement to provide input
into design and maintenance of infrastructure; and
• Better integration between public and private sector in
the development of appropriate infrastructure that
considers resilience.

14. Question?
darren.briggs@arup.com