Biotech and supply chains will face challenges to increase crop production while using fewer resources and supplying food affordably worldwide by 2050. Key challenges include reducing dependency on oil/gas, managing specialized talent and costs, ensuring sustainability, product traceability amid more regulation, and developing new business models to close gaps between developed and developing economies. As the global population grows, these sectors must find ways to make biotech solutions and efficient supply chains accessible to all.

1. Future Challenges
for Biotech and
Supply Chain
in Agribusiness
By Suzette Flores
For IE Business School
application

2. With the global population expected to reach
9 billion by 2050,
and knowing that increasing world energy demand cannot be satisfied much
longer with fossil fuels. Biotech & supply chains will face a huge preassure to
increase crop production, use less resources and be able to supply to any
location at competitive prices.

3. Some of the key challenges that might be
faced…
Reduce High preassure on
dependency food & energy
Sustainability supply at
on Oil /gas
competitive prices
Trust &
Specialized
Risk Supply talent Biotech
stakeholders
support
management Chain
Cost
effectiveness
Regulation &
security
Collaboration/ Public & private
connectivity along Product collaboration
the chain traceability Close gap between
developed and
under developed
New business economies
Reduce
models
complexity

4. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…
Sustainability
Biotech and supply Chain might resolve the
need of using less resources, consuming
less energy and generating less waste.
Reducing complexity in Spply Chains will
be encouraged to reduce transportation cost
and footprint.

5. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…
Specialized talent
More regulation and complexity will demand
more specialized talent.
It will be critical to close the gap between
developed and developing countries by fairly
value people contributions, to prevent brain
drain.

6. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & biotechnology…
Product
Regulation & traceability
security
With more globalization, restrictions and
controls are expected to increase when
moving goods across the world, specially
when biologicls, and GMO´s are involved in
the production process.
Product traceability will be a must at real
time and at an affordable technology/price.

7. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & Biotechnology…
As Biotech is still in a growing
New Business
stage and organizations realize
more and more about the
Models
importance of their Supply Chain
models in their business
performance and customers
experience, it is still a long
journey to discover how much the
innovation in these arenas could
reshape the way we do business
and trasnform the world.

8. Future Challenge for Supply Chain & biotechnology…
Cost
effectiveness
With biotech as a potential solution for health improvement and food
supply, and the supply chains the means to deliver those solutions to the
humanity, the Nations anc Companies will face the difficult challenge of
making them available for everybody, not only for a priviledge group of
people.

9. Which role would I like to play in the mid
term in this sector?
Creating new
opportunities
and developing talent in the Developing,
Agribusiness sector
leading and
disseminating
Get Global sustainability practices in supply
Chain
responsibility on
Supply Chain
where I can demonstrate that Supply Chain
could be not only a key contributor to results, Influencing
but a game changer in the organizations and
new business models. stake holders and facilitating the
adoption of biotechnology and
innovative Supply Chain approaches.
Help to improve the life of farmers and
customers specially in developing
countries.

10. References
• Alexandratos, N. & Bruisma J.(ed.) (2012), World agriculture: Towards 2030-2050, FAO.
http://typo3.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/esa/Global_persepctives/world_ag_2030_50_201
2_rev.pdf