Latin America is well positioned to meet the growing global demand for food by 2025, as it possesses one third of the world's fresh water and available land. Investing in Latin American agro-businesses presents a profitable opportunity to generate financial returns and promote development in local communities. Breakthrough Solutions helps clients succeed in these investments by developing comprehensive roadmaps and designing infrastructure like processing centers that reduce waste and inefficiencies to increase profitability. Their work creates jobs and opportunities in farming communities while helping clients diversify their sourcing and customer offerings.
Fresh Direct: produce and agro-allied servicesExternalEvents
http://www.freshdirect.ng/
Nourishing growing urban populations in the future presents challenges, which include urbanization, rising middle class and growing inequality, scarce resources, automation and rapid technological change. Fresh Direct brings together communities and advanced technology to improve agricultural yields for sustainable and profitable agricultural enterprise.
Presentation of the main results of a recent study which analyses the evolution of value distribution within the coffee sector, evaluates the social and environmental impacts generated along the chain, and estimates the hidden costs offset on public authorities and third parties. This analysis is based on detailed case studies of value chains between France (on the consumption side) and Colombia, Peru and Ethiopia (on the production side). Discussion wase followed by a debate on what kind of public policy measures could be put in place.
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Fresh Direct: produce and agro-allied servicesExternalEvents
http://www.freshdirect.ng/
Nourishing growing urban populations in the future presents challenges, which include urbanization, rising middle class and growing inequality, scarce resources, automation and rapid technological change. Fresh Direct brings together communities and advanced technology to improve agricultural yields for sustainable and profitable agricultural enterprise.
Presentation of the main results of a recent study which analyses the evolution of value distribution within the coffee sector, evaluates the social and environmental impacts generated along the chain, and estimates the hidden costs offset on public authorities and third parties. This analysis is based on detailed case studies of value chains between France (on the consumption side) and Colombia, Peru and Ethiopia (on the production side). Discussion wase followed by a debate on what kind of public policy measures could be put in place.
J.Hilburn is a custom clothier for men that offers custom shirts, made to measure suits, cashmere sweaters, performance outerwear jackets, and trousers. We offer the finest Italian fabrics for custom shirts and trousers.
J.Hilburn is a custom clothier for men that offers custom shirts, made to measure suits, cashmere sweaters, performance outerwear jackets, and trousers. We offer the finest Italian fabrics for custom shirts and trousers.
CherryPie is now upon us, meaning that marketers now have access to an entirely new form of mobile marketing automation. Each week, I’ll walk you through a tutorial on how to get the most out of your experience with CherryPie. This week, I’ll cover creating campaigns within CherryPie.
J.Hilburn is a custom clothier for men that offers custom shirts, made to measure suits, cashmere sweaters, performance outerwear jackets, and trousers. We offer the finest Italian fabrics for custom shirts and trousers.
J.Hilburn is a custom clothier for men that offers custom shirts, made to measure suits, cashmere sweaters, performance outerwear jackets, and trousers. We offer the finest Italian fabrics for custom shirts and trousers.
Mutation testing is the true test for whether or not your source code does the right thing, and whether it's properly tested by your unit tests. But while we're on a killing spree against the mutants of our source code, let's reflect a bit on what these mutants really represent, and why we want to include the unit tests that kill them in our test suite.
What's the real point of boundary testing? Do we really need every statement in the source code? Have we tested all calculations? How do we know that we got all the access modifiers on our methods right? These are some of the questions that we would like to reflect on for a moment.
We'll start this talk with a short introduction to mutation testing, but only to set the stage. The core of this talk consists of a walk-through of Java code and unit tests, and a reflection on TDD and the quality of our unit tests. At the end of this talk you should be more suspicious about both your source code and your unit tests.
Solidaridad Central America has launched the Mesoamerican Landscape Accelerator, a design process which helps speed and scale identification and financing of necessary investments for sustainable agriculture and landscape restoration. This session will present Solidaridad’s experience piloting the accelerator in Honduras. First, we will highlight the context of the landscape programme in Honduras, secondly we shed light on the design process and how it results in an investment portfolio and lastly, we will showcase 1-3 investment opportunities to take a deep dive together with the audience.
Value chains which unlock market opportunitiesagbiz
Dr John Purchase presented to AgriSA on Global Food System and Value Chains
Food Chain and Network Development
How do we capture value?
Role of Government and the Case for International Investment
CherryPie is now upon us, meaning that marketers now have access to an entirely new form of mobile marketing automation. Each week, I’ll walk you through a tutorial on how to get the most out of your experience with CherryPie. This week, I’ll cover creating campaigns within CherryPie.
J.Hilburn is a custom clothier for men that offers custom shirts, made to measure suits, cashmere sweaters, performance outerwear jackets, and trousers. We offer the finest Italian fabrics for custom shirts and trousers.
J.Hilburn is a custom clothier for men that offers custom shirts, made to measure suits, cashmere sweaters, performance outerwear jackets, and trousers. We offer the finest Italian fabrics for custom shirts and trousers.
Mutation testing is the true test for whether or not your source code does the right thing, and whether it's properly tested by your unit tests. But while we're on a killing spree against the mutants of our source code, let's reflect a bit on what these mutants really represent, and why we want to include the unit tests that kill them in our test suite.
What's the real point of boundary testing? Do we really need every statement in the source code? Have we tested all calculations? How do we know that we got all the access modifiers on our methods right? These are some of the questions that we would like to reflect on for a moment.
We'll start this talk with a short introduction to mutation testing, but only to set the stage. The core of this talk consists of a walk-through of Java code and unit tests, and a reflection on TDD and the quality of our unit tests. At the end of this talk you should be more suspicious about both your source code and your unit tests.
Solidaridad Central America has launched the Mesoamerican Landscape Accelerator, a design process which helps speed and scale identification and financing of necessary investments for sustainable agriculture and landscape restoration. This session will present Solidaridad’s experience piloting the accelerator in Honduras. First, we will highlight the context of the landscape programme in Honduras, secondly we shed light on the design process and how it results in an investment portfolio and lastly, we will showcase 1-3 investment opportunities to take a deep dive together with the audience.
Value chains which unlock market opportunitiesagbiz
Dr John Purchase presented to AgriSA on Global Food System and Value Chains
Food Chain and Network Development
How do we capture value?
Role of Government and the Case for International Investment
Deployment of a Sustainable Agricultural Ecosystem by CreofelJoshuaOfor
Revolutionizing agriculture in Africa, by deploying fully-controlled, greenhouse farming systems, enabling high scale local production, and providing the region with nutritious, and safe food; all these being done with fewer resources & contributing greatly to the global climate action agenda.
1. Making the most of investing in
Latin American Agro-Businesses
How to profitably do the right thing in the right place…right now
Success Enablers™
Our passion is produce, our mission is to generate the financial results for
our clients that will enable them to prosper and re-invest in their
business, community and environment
3. More people with more purchasing power
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The World will need 60% more food by 2050
Where will this extra food come from?
5. Where is the fresh water?
The Latin America and Caribbean region posses 1/3 of the world’s fresh
water, and that proportion will increase further by 2025
http://www.grida.no/publications/vg/climate/page/3091.aspx
7. So only Latin America will be a net exporter
TFP: Total Factor Productivity
8. How can you participate?
• Invest in land for production
• Invest in technologies to
increase productivity such
as greenhouses
• Leverage underutilized
processing capacity
• Vertically integrate growers
and go direct to market
9. Value in the Supply Chain
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Production Waste
There is also great value to be captured by reducing
waste and improving efficiencies
10. • Large grower with available land and access to water
• Selling to distributors and wholesalers
• Wanting to capture more value via direct channel commercialization
• Requiring insights for expansion into non traditional products and markets
Case Study: Large Grower Peru
12. Vegetable and fruit waste from farm to market is approx. 30-40%
Reducing waste can result in almost US$78 million a year saving
More profitability
for growers and
lower prices for
consumers
Waste Reduction Project Panama
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Improper Post
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Handling
Inadequate
Packaging and
Handling
Fragmented
and Non
Refrigerated
Transportation
State of the Art
Post Harvest
Handling
Storage in
Optimal
Conditions
Refrigerated
Transportation
in Economic
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Vision
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IntegratedVisibilityandTraceability
Existing Situation
Appropriate
Cooling and
Storage
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Commercialization
Transparency and
Hygene Conditions
International
Quality Products
with Traceability,
Adequate Safety
and Hygene
We Crafted a Vision for the Panama Cold Chain System
14. Weighing and
Traceability
On Site Buyers
Offices
Consolidation and
Shipping
Q.A. and InspectionControlled Access Processing and
Re-Pack
Cooling and
Refrigerated Storage
The Team Designed, Spec’d. and Built 4 State of the Art Centers
Saved
$5MM in the
first year of
operation in
Onion losses
alone!
16. Summary
Latin America is poised to become the world’s breadbasket by 2025
It is the only region of the world with available land, water and labor where
production can grow faster than population and demand
Investing in Latin America farming, infrastructure or logistics businesses presents a
great opportunity to diversify sourcing, invest in a socially impactful way and
expand year round offering to your customers
Investing creates good jobs and opportunities in those communities where the
product is grown, helping promote development and reducing urban migration
Breakthrough Solutions offers the end to end know how required to help you
succeed in your agro-business projects – Would you like us to help you?