Presentation by Ma. Lucila Lapar, Rameswar Deka, Johanna Lindahl and Delia Grace at the 8th international conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE), Savar, Bangladesh, 15-17 October 2014.
Improving food safety and quality in traditional dairy value chain in Assam: ...ILRI
Presented by Ma. Lucila A. Lapar, Rameswar Deka, Johanna Lindahl, Delia Grace at the 58th annual conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, 4-7 February 2014.
Building an enabling environment for food safety in informal markets in India...ILRI
Presented by Lucila Lapar, Ram Deka, Johanna Lindahl, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Nancy Johnson, Amanda Wyatt and Delia Grace at the 4th annual Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) conference, 3-4 June 2014, London, UK.
Health risk in informal milk value chain: Needs of a people-centric collectiv...ILRI
Presentation by Ram Pratim Deka, Johanna Lindahl and Delia Grace at the 12th annual conference of the Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists (IAVPHS), Bengaluru, India, 11 February 2015.
Dairy business value chain analysis in Lamjung district of Nepal Premier Publishers
Among agricultural sub-sectors adopted, dairy business was one the most profitable agri-businesses in Nepal but past studies to support this statement was lacking in Lamjung district Nepal. The survey was carried out from April 2013 to January 2014 with the aim of analysing chain functions, capabilities of and support level of operational service providers, value addition, and market analysis of milk business actors. The study collected primary information from 97 respondents by using focus group discussion, key informant survey, observation and SWOT analysis. Results after using descriptive tools identified six chain functions. Estimated 33660 farming households milked 15272 tons raw milk annually but marketed only 13 percent milk and milk products in the 23 peri-urban local market-outlets through two routes: 784 tons milk fed through 7 small-scale chilling centres particularly cold chain process and 1201 tons through hot-milk base processing. Unmet 297 tons (32%) dairy products, all in processed form, were supplied from adjoining districts. The value addition analysis of cow milk showed that not only producers and processor added the largest cost share but also received the highest profit share among the succeeding agents. However, pricing and payments of dairy product were buyer-driven without making contract and no system of market sharing among the micro-actors.
Largest : annual production over 132 Million Tonnes.
Co-ops. : 17 state federations, 180 district milk unions, 13.41 million dairy farmers.
Now : Producers Companies & Private dairies are growing …. creating parallel dairy infrastructure.
NDP : To double the growth rate to become milk sufficient country by the year 2022 with target over 200 million tonnes milk production.…. and the technology partner from 33 years
Dr. P K Joshi, Director-South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute(IFPRI) presented on “Financing Agri-value Chain Development In India – Constraints and Opportunities” at the 27th National Conference on Agricultural Marketing organized by University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics, Dharwad
Improving food safety and quality in traditional dairy value chain in Assam: ...ILRI
Presented by Ma. Lucila A. Lapar, Rameswar Deka, Johanna Lindahl, Delia Grace at the 58th annual conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, 4-7 February 2014.
Building an enabling environment for food safety in informal markets in India...ILRI
Presented by Lucila Lapar, Ram Deka, Johanna Lindahl, Hung Nguyen-Viet, Nancy Johnson, Amanda Wyatt and Delia Grace at the 4th annual Leverhulme Centre for Integrative Research on Agriculture and Health (LCIRAH) conference, 3-4 June 2014, London, UK.
Health risk in informal milk value chain: Needs of a people-centric collectiv...ILRI
Presentation by Ram Pratim Deka, Johanna Lindahl and Delia Grace at the 12th annual conference of the Indian Association of Veterinary Public Health Specialists (IAVPHS), Bengaluru, India, 11 February 2015.
Dairy business value chain analysis in Lamjung district of Nepal Premier Publishers
Among agricultural sub-sectors adopted, dairy business was one the most profitable agri-businesses in Nepal but past studies to support this statement was lacking in Lamjung district Nepal. The survey was carried out from April 2013 to January 2014 with the aim of analysing chain functions, capabilities of and support level of operational service providers, value addition, and market analysis of milk business actors. The study collected primary information from 97 respondents by using focus group discussion, key informant survey, observation and SWOT analysis. Results after using descriptive tools identified six chain functions. Estimated 33660 farming households milked 15272 tons raw milk annually but marketed only 13 percent milk and milk products in the 23 peri-urban local market-outlets through two routes: 784 tons milk fed through 7 small-scale chilling centres particularly cold chain process and 1201 tons through hot-milk base processing. Unmet 297 tons (32%) dairy products, all in processed form, were supplied from adjoining districts. The value addition analysis of cow milk showed that not only producers and processor added the largest cost share but also received the highest profit share among the succeeding agents. However, pricing and payments of dairy product were buyer-driven without making contract and no system of market sharing among the micro-actors.
Largest : annual production over 132 Million Tonnes.
Co-ops. : 17 state federations, 180 district milk unions, 13.41 million dairy farmers.
Now : Producers Companies & Private dairies are growing …. creating parallel dairy infrastructure.
NDP : To double the growth rate to become milk sufficient country by the year 2022 with target over 200 million tonnes milk production.…. and the technology partner from 33 years
Dr. P K Joshi, Director-South Asia, International Food Policy Research Institute(IFPRI) presented on “Financing Agri-value Chain Development In India – Constraints and Opportunities” at the 27th National Conference on Agricultural Marketing organized by University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics, Dharwad
Formalizing the informal: Experiences from a training and certification schem...ILRI
Presented by S. Alonso, R.P. Deka, E. Blackmore, A. Omore and D. Grace at the International Conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies, Anand, Gujarat, India, 6-7 January 2016.
Intersections: Beyond the Operations FunctionFGV Brazil
The identification of key success factors in sustainable cold chain management: Insights from the Indian food industry
Authors:
Shashi ., Rajwinder Singh, Amir Shabani
Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Vol 9, No 2 (2016)
FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE)
Abstract
Supply chain sustainability has emerged as an indispensable research agenda for the government, industry as well as non-profit orientation bodies. As a developing country, cold supply chain management in India is still in infancy. The demand pattern of food products has been dramatically changing since last few years. Nowadays, the customers are more conscious to use products for better health and highly expecting for food safety, toxic free and eco-friendly delivery of food products. However, sustainable cold supply chain has not yet received good heed throughout the world. Hence, in this paper an attempt has been made to address these important issues. A conceptual model was proposed in the consultation of practitioners and literature support to address the important issues in cold supply chain management for food companies. Therefore, in order to identify the key success factors for sustainable cold chain management, in this study a conceptual model developed. The proposed framework is then validated by an empirical research in the Indian food industry. This research has several alarming findings. Explicitly, in India i) environmental issues and social responsibility are not as important as other economical supplier selection criteria, ii) among 19 food supplier selection criteria, the rank of social responsibility is 18, iii) low carbon emission is less important value addition trait as compare to other sustainable cold chain value addition (which means in India the buyers focus more on their individual and prompt received benefits rather than long lasting advantages), iv) the use of life cycle analysis, renewable energy sources and passive cold chain are the least important implemented sustainable cold chain practices (although this might be because of utilization complexities), v) the joint development of product is implemented at the lowest extent judging against other dynamic capacity factors, vii) government usually backed the firms to adopt and implementing sustainability in their operations, but training courses that will guide how to achieve sustainability are less as their requirement, and viii) business sustainability builds the trust among the government, suppliers, firm and all stakeholders that build strong cold chain relationships.
Fodder market opportunities for smallholder dairying in TanzaniaILRI
Poster prepared by Margaret Lukuyu, Alice Njehu, Angello Mwilawa, Ben Lukuyu, Amos Omore and Elizaphan J.O. Rao for the Maziwa Zaidi Policy Forum, Dar es Salaam, 23-24 May 2017
India Ready-to-eat Food Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2019TechSci Research
Rising number of nuclear families and working women along with busy lifestyle of working class population continues to drive demand for Ready-to-eat food products in India
Value Stream Analysis of Vegetable Supply Chain in Bangladesh: A Case Studyijmvsc
Bangladesh is primarily an agricultural country. Agriculture plays a vital role in its economy in terms of
food safety, value addition, export earnings and employment. Bangladesh weather and soils are suitable for
a variety of harvests cultivation. More than 100 vegetables are produced in this country. Various types of
vegetables are grown in rural Bangladesh in small homesteads and large agricultural land both for the
own consumption and commercial purpose. Commercial vegetable trading has an integrated supply chain
system which depends on some intermediaries and their activities to take the vegetables from producers to
consumers. The main problem is consumer pays two to three times more than the producers’ margin. The
main objectives of this paper are to investigate the existing vegetable supply chain through value stream
analysis and to identify different stakeholders and their activities, and also to illustrate various cost and
price movement towards different stages of the supply chain. Based on the questionnaire different data are
collected from farmers, different market actors, and consumer and finally problems regarding vegetable
value chain are identified. In the existing situation, producers have no control over the vegetable supply
chain, product pricing; rather they are strongly influenced by market syndicates. In order to make the
problems of the existing supply chain network more understandable different analysis is conducted in this
paper. Finally a new network is proposed to the vegetable supply chain.
Impact evaluation of innovation platforms to increase dairy production: A cas...ILRI
Presented by Shanker Subedi, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Ravichandran Thanammal and Nils Teufel at the 8th International Conference of Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) on Viability of Small Farmers in Asia 2014, Saver, Bangladesh, 15-17 August 2014
Smallholder Farmers’ Market Participation: Concepts and Methodological Approa...Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on smallholder farmers’ market participation focusing on cash/food crops and livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with special attention on the methodological approaches employed in this region in an attempt to x-ray these methods, identifying their advantages and limitations and possible means smallholder farmers would be able to transit from subsistence to commercialised agriculture capable of lifting them out of poverty trap that seems to have engulfed many rural SSA. This paper recommends interventions geared towards improving smallholder farmers’ organisation, producers’ association and ensuring appreciable reduction in transaction costs and also improving farmers’ access to productive assets and improved technologies capable of stimulating profitable smallholders’ market participation.
On December 8 and 9, a Dairy Expert Roundtable Meeting on “Competitive Dairy Value Chains in Southeast Asia” was held in Muak Lek, Thailand. In this regional meeting, participants from six countries in Southeast Asia discussed how the relatively small dairy value chains could be more competitive and sustainable.
The Importance of the Informal Milk Sector in India ILRI
Presented by A.K. Joseph, N. Raghunathan, and S. Kulkarni to the ILRI workshop on safety of animal source foods with an emphasis on the informal sectors, New Delhi, India, 8 February 2011
A Joint Initiative for the Improvement of the Quality of Milk Marketed by Mil...ILRI
Presented by A. Sarma to the ILRI workshop on safety of animal source foods with an emphasis on the informal sectors, New Delhi, India, 8 February 2011
Brian Lindsay - Beefing Up Sustainability – The Journey of the SAI Platform B...John Blue
Beefing Up Sustainability – The Journey of the SAI Platform Beef Working Group - Brian Lindsay, Project Leader, Beef Working Group, SAI Platform, from the 2014 Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), November 2 -5, 2014, São Paulo, Brazil.
More presentations at http://trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2014-global-roundtable-sustainable-beef
Formalizing the informal: Experiences from a training and certification schem...ILRI
Presented by S. Alonso, R.P. Deka, E. Blackmore, A. Omore and D. Grace at the International Conference on Agribusiness in Emerging Economies, Anand, Gujarat, India, 6-7 January 2016.
Intersections: Beyond the Operations FunctionFGV Brazil
The identification of key success factors in sustainable cold chain management: Insights from the Indian food industry
Authors:
Shashi ., Rajwinder Singh, Amir Shabani
Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management
Vol 9, No 2 (2016)
FGV's Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE)
Abstract
Supply chain sustainability has emerged as an indispensable research agenda for the government, industry as well as non-profit orientation bodies. As a developing country, cold supply chain management in India is still in infancy. The demand pattern of food products has been dramatically changing since last few years. Nowadays, the customers are more conscious to use products for better health and highly expecting for food safety, toxic free and eco-friendly delivery of food products. However, sustainable cold supply chain has not yet received good heed throughout the world. Hence, in this paper an attempt has been made to address these important issues. A conceptual model was proposed in the consultation of practitioners and literature support to address the important issues in cold supply chain management for food companies. Therefore, in order to identify the key success factors for sustainable cold chain management, in this study a conceptual model developed. The proposed framework is then validated by an empirical research in the Indian food industry. This research has several alarming findings. Explicitly, in India i) environmental issues and social responsibility are not as important as other economical supplier selection criteria, ii) among 19 food supplier selection criteria, the rank of social responsibility is 18, iii) low carbon emission is less important value addition trait as compare to other sustainable cold chain value addition (which means in India the buyers focus more on their individual and prompt received benefits rather than long lasting advantages), iv) the use of life cycle analysis, renewable energy sources and passive cold chain are the least important implemented sustainable cold chain practices (although this might be because of utilization complexities), v) the joint development of product is implemented at the lowest extent judging against other dynamic capacity factors, vii) government usually backed the firms to adopt and implementing sustainability in their operations, but training courses that will guide how to achieve sustainability are less as their requirement, and viii) business sustainability builds the trust among the government, suppliers, firm and all stakeholders that build strong cold chain relationships.
Fodder market opportunities for smallholder dairying in TanzaniaILRI
Poster prepared by Margaret Lukuyu, Alice Njehu, Angello Mwilawa, Ben Lukuyu, Amos Omore and Elizaphan J.O. Rao for the Maziwa Zaidi Policy Forum, Dar es Salaam, 23-24 May 2017
India Ready-to-eat Food Market Forecast and Opportunities, 2019TechSci Research
Rising number of nuclear families and working women along with busy lifestyle of working class population continues to drive demand for Ready-to-eat food products in India
Value Stream Analysis of Vegetable Supply Chain in Bangladesh: A Case Studyijmvsc
Bangladesh is primarily an agricultural country. Agriculture plays a vital role in its economy in terms of
food safety, value addition, export earnings and employment. Bangladesh weather and soils are suitable for
a variety of harvests cultivation. More than 100 vegetables are produced in this country. Various types of
vegetables are grown in rural Bangladesh in small homesteads and large agricultural land both for the
own consumption and commercial purpose. Commercial vegetable trading has an integrated supply chain
system which depends on some intermediaries and their activities to take the vegetables from producers to
consumers. The main problem is consumer pays two to three times more than the producers’ margin. The
main objectives of this paper are to investigate the existing vegetable supply chain through value stream
analysis and to identify different stakeholders and their activities, and also to illustrate various cost and
price movement towards different stages of the supply chain. Based on the questionnaire different data are
collected from farmers, different market actors, and consumer and finally problems regarding vegetable
value chain are identified. In the existing situation, producers have no control over the vegetable supply
chain, product pricing; rather they are strongly influenced by market syndicates. In order to make the
problems of the existing supply chain network more understandable different analysis is conducted in this
paper. Finally a new network is proposed to the vegetable supply chain.
Impact evaluation of innovation platforms to increase dairy production: A cas...ILRI
Presented by Shanker Subedi, Jean-Joseph Cadilhon, Ravichandran Thanammal and Nils Teufel at the 8th International Conference of Asian Society of Agricultural Economists (ASAE) on Viability of Small Farmers in Asia 2014, Saver, Bangladesh, 15-17 August 2014
Smallholder Farmers’ Market Participation: Concepts and Methodological Approa...Olutosin Ademola Otekunrin
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on smallholder farmers’ market participation focusing on cash/food crops and livestock in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with special attention on the methodological approaches employed in this region in an attempt to x-ray these methods, identifying their advantages and limitations and possible means smallholder farmers would be able to transit from subsistence to commercialised agriculture capable of lifting them out of poverty trap that seems to have engulfed many rural SSA. This paper recommends interventions geared towards improving smallholder farmers’ organisation, producers’ association and ensuring appreciable reduction in transaction costs and also improving farmers’ access to productive assets and improved technologies capable of stimulating profitable smallholders’ market participation.
On December 8 and 9, a Dairy Expert Roundtable Meeting on “Competitive Dairy Value Chains in Southeast Asia” was held in Muak Lek, Thailand. In this regional meeting, participants from six countries in Southeast Asia discussed how the relatively small dairy value chains could be more competitive and sustainable.
The Importance of the Informal Milk Sector in India ILRI
Presented by A.K. Joseph, N. Raghunathan, and S. Kulkarni to the ILRI workshop on safety of animal source foods with an emphasis on the informal sectors, New Delhi, India, 8 February 2011
A Joint Initiative for the Improvement of the Quality of Milk Marketed by Mil...ILRI
Presented by A. Sarma to the ILRI workshop on safety of animal source foods with an emphasis on the informal sectors, New Delhi, India, 8 February 2011
Brian Lindsay - Beefing Up Sustainability – The Journey of the SAI Platform B...John Blue
Beefing Up Sustainability – The Journey of the SAI Platform Beef Working Group - Brian Lindsay, Project Leader, Beef Working Group, SAI Platform, from the 2014 Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), November 2 -5, 2014, São Paulo, Brazil.
More presentations at http://trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2014-global-roundtable-sustainable-beef
Ashley Lyon McDonald - Global Sustainability Impacts - United StatesJohn Blue
Global Sustainability Impacts - United States - Ashley Lyon McDonald, Administrator, US Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (United States), from the 2018 Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), October 9 - 12, 2018, Kilkenny, Ireland.
More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJuQkIaCQn5HXVjFbExofkg
Risks with urban and peri-urban milk production in IndiaILRI
Presentation by Johanna Lindahl, Manish Kakkar, Purvi Mehta, Ram Deka and Delia Grace at the EcoHealth 2014 conference, Montreal, Canada, 11-15 August 2014.
Evaluating risks in the informal milk value chain in Northeast IndiaILRI
Presented by Johanna Lindahl, Manish Kakkar, Purvi Mehta, Ram Deka and Delia Grace at the 9th Food Safety and Quality Summit, New Delhi, India, 2-3 December 2014.
It includes a brief outline of strategic implementations in a Diary industry(PURO) like SWOT, PESTEL, ETOP, Porters five forces model, Porters Value chain, General Policies of a firm
IPMS experiences on research for dairy development: Approaches and lessons ILRI
Presentation by Dirk Hoekstra, Azage Tegegne, Berhanu Gebremedhin and Tesfaye Lemma at the National dairy forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 23-24 November 2010.
Lessons from action research to promote uptake of harmonised institutional ap...ILRI
Presentation by Tezira Lore, Lusato Kurwijila and Amos Omore at the 4th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Arusha, Tanzania, 21 September 2005.
The Food and Beverage Industry: Advancing on the Path to Product SustainabilitySustainable Brands
This Pure Strategies report will help those in the food and beverage industry learn: how to maximize business value to keep pace with competitors' progress in product sustainability; steps for building strong corporate alignment and bringing product sustainability into the core of the business; and where companies in the food and beverage sector plan on focusing their product sustainability efforts in the coming years to address emerging issues.
Traditional Versus Modern Milk Marketing Chains in India: Implications for Smallholder Dairy Farmers by Anjani Kumar, Research Fellow, IFPRI- Delhi.
Presented at the ReSAKSS-Asia - MIID conference "Evolving Agrifood Systems in Asia: Achieving food and nutrition security by 2030" on Oct 30-31, 2019 in Yangon, Myanmar.
Integrating informal actors into the formal dairy industry in Kenya through t...ILRI
Presentation by Amos Omore and Derek Baker: Towards Priority Actions for Market Development for African Farmers, AGRA Conference. 13-15 May 2009, Nairobi, Kenya
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Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
Presentation by Guy Ilboudo, Abel Sènabgè Biguezoton, Cheick Abou Kounta Sidibé, Modou Moustapha Lo, Zoë Campbell and Michel Dione at the 6th Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Research and Expertise Networks (PPR-GREN) annual meeting, Bengaluru, India, 28–30 November 2023.
Small ruminant keepers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards peste des ...ILRI
Poster by Guy Ilboudo, Abel Sènabgè Biguezoton, Cheick Abou Kounta Sidibé, Modou Moustapha Lo, Zoë Campbell and Michel Dione presented at the 6th Peste des Petits Ruminants Global Research and Expertise Networks (PPR-GREN) annual meeting, Bengaluru, India, 29 November 2023.
A training, certification and marketing scheme for informal dairy vendors in ...ILRI
Presentation by Silvia Alonso, Jef L. Leroy, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas and Delia Grace at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Milk safety and child nutrition impacts of the MoreMilk training, certificati...ILRI
Poster by Silvia Alonso, Emmanuel Muunda, Moira Donahue Angel, Emily Kilonzi, Giordano Palloni, Gideon Kiarie, Paula Dominguez-Salas, Delia Grace and Jef L. Leroy presented at the Micronutrient Forum 6th Global Conference, The Hague, Netherlands, 16 October 2023.
Food safety research in low- and middle-income countriesILRI
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the first technical meeting to launch the Food Safety Working Group under the One Health Partnership framework, Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 September 2023
Presentation by Hung Nguyen-Viet at the first technical meeting to launch the Food Safety Working Group under the One Health Partnership framework, Hanoi, Vietnam, 28 September 2023
Reservoirs of pathogenic Leptospira species in UgandaILRI
Presentation by Lordrick Alinaitwe, Martin Wainaina, Salome Dürr, Clovice Kankya, Velma Kivali, James Bugeza, Martin Richter, Kristina Roesel, Annie Cook and Anne Mayer-Scholl at the University of Bern Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences Symposium, Bern, Switzerland, 29 June 2023.
Assessing meat microbiological safety and associated handling practices in bu...ILRI
Presentation by Patricia Koech, Winnie Ogutu, Linnet Ochieng, Delia Grace, George Gitao, Lily Bebora, Max Korir, Florence Mutua and Arshnee Moodley at the 8th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana, 26–29 September 2023.
Ecological factors associated with abundance and distribution of mosquito vec...ILRI
Poster by Max Korir, Joel Lutomiah and Bernard Bett presented the 8th All Africa Conference on Animal Agriculture, Gaborone, Botswana, 26–29 September 2023.
Practices and drivers of antibiotic use in Kenyan smallholder dairy farmsILRI
Poster by Lydiah Kisoo, Dishon M. Muloi, Walter Oguta, Daisy Ronoh, Lynn Kirwa, James Akoko, Eric Fèvre, Arshnee Moodley and Lillian Wambua presented at Tropentag 2023, Berlin, Germany, 20–22 September 2023.
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
Deep Behavioral Phenotyping in Systems Neuroscience for Functional Atlasing a...Ana Luísa Pinho
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) provides means to characterize brain activations in response to behavior. However, cognitive neuroscience has been limited to group-level effects referring to the performance of specific tasks. To obtain the functional profile of elementary cognitive mechanisms, the combination of brain responses to many tasks is required. Yet, to date, both structural atlases and parcellation-based activations do not fully account for cognitive function and still present several limitations. Further, they do not adapt overall to individual characteristics. In this talk, I will give an account of deep-behavioral phenotyping strategies, namely data-driven methods in large task-fMRI datasets, to optimize functional brain-data collection and improve inference of effects-of-interest related to mental processes. Key to this approach is the employment of fast multi-functional paradigms rich on features that can be well parametrized and, consequently, facilitate the creation of psycho-physiological constructs to be modelled with imaging data. Particular emphasis will be given to music stimuli when studying high-order cognitive mechanisms, due to their ecological nature and quality to enable complex behavior compounded by discrete entities. I will also discuss how deep-behavioral phenotyping and individualized models applied to neuroimaging data can better account for the subject-specific organization of domain-general cognitive systems in the human brain. Finally, the accumulation of functional brain signatures brings the possibility to clarify relationships among tasks and create a univocal link between brain systems and mental functions through: (1) the development of ontologies proposing an organization of cognitive processes; and (2) brain-network taxonomies describing functional specialization. To this end, tools to improve commensurability in cognitive science are necessary, such as public repositories, ontology-based platforms and automated meta-analysis tools. I will thus discuss some brain-atlasing resources currently under development, and their applicability in cognitive as well as clinical neuroscience.
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
Exposé invité Journées Nationales du GDR GPL 2024
Professional air quality monitoring systems provide immediate, on-site data for analysis, compliance, and decision-making.
Monitor common gases, weather parameters, particulates.
Quality and safety improvements in informal milk markets and implications for food safety policy
1. Quality and safety improvements in informal milk
markets and implications for food safety policy
Ma. Lucila A. Lapar, Rameswar Deka, Johanna Lindahl, Delia Grace
8th International Conference of the Asian Society of Agricultural Economists
Savar, Bangladesh
22-24 October 2014
4. Most of milk in Assam are supplied through
informal milk markets via milk traders (ILRI 2007).
5. There is growing concern among consumers about
milk hygiene and quality as demand for milk rises.
6. The GET Dairy Project
(Generating Evidence to Support Enhanced Traditional Dairying in India)
To assess the impact of traditional dairy system in Assam in order to
generate evidence for scaling up/out the intervention to larger areas
(2009-2012).
Builds on previous ILRI initiatives in Assam (Comprehensive Dairy
Sector Study, WB and Gov of Assam, 2006-2007; Knowledge to
Action: enhancing traditional dairy value chain in Assam, 2008-2010)
with partial funding from DFID sponsored RIU program.
• Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KAP) and milk quality assessment surveys on
traditional dairy sector in 4 districts (Kamrup, Jorhat, Sonitpur & Barpeta, with local
partners Dairy Development Department (DDD), Assam Agricultural University (AAU),
Greater Guwahati Cattle Farmers Association and a local NGO))
• Design and draft customized training manuals for capacity building of market actors
on hygienic milk production and handling after a rigorous process of participatory
training need assessment.
7. Objectives of the GET Dairy Project
To evaluate the ILRI model for improving traditional
dairy sector (based on training and certification of
informal value chain actors) by assessing the impacts
on capacity of value chain actors and net benefits
accruing to milk value chains and consumers.
To understand and document the process of policy
influence and change which supports local ownership
and sustainability of this model for improving the
traditional dairy sector.
To assess the economic impact and cost-benefit of
the model for improving the traditional dairy sector.
To gather lessons from the Assam experience to
inform dairy development elsewhere.
9. The action research: model for improving quality
and safety in traditional dairy sector
Develop & test training material
Assess knowledge, attitude, practice
Training needs assessment
Audit/
Monitoring
Know-How
Certificate
Practice
certification
Issue Identity
Badge/Logo
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
Support stakeholder platform
10. Research Questions
How does training and certification of informal dairy chain actors change
knowledge, behavior and milk quality/safety outcomes?
How does participation in the training and certification scheme translate
into livelihood benefits for milk value chain actors and reduced health
risks for dairy consumers?
How can sustainability be assured? What incentives are necessary to
motivate participation in training and certification? How can the system
be self-financing and credible?
What are the economy-wide impacts of these programs? What are the
overall costs and benefits of the initiatives? Who gets the benefits and
who pays the costs?
11. Data sources and methodology
Evaluation of impacts of training and certification
• prospective matched cohort study using a double difference design (before and
after, with and without intervention), using 2009 surveys as baseline (KAP,
milk quality assessment).
Evaluation of economic impact and cost-benefit analysis.
• Partial equilibrium displacement model
• Transaction costs analysis
Qualitative analysis of the process of influencing policy
• Outcome mapping (www.idrc.ca/evaluation).
12. Food safety-associated outcomes
On KAPs of milk traders and producers:
Improved milk handling practices by milk vendors and
producers.
Increased incidence of reported satisfaction with milk quality
(e.g., longer shelf life/lower spoilage rate, absence of odor)
On milk quality and safety indicators
Higher levels of water in milk samples tested indicative of
adulteration; absence of other adulterants, e.g., chemical.
Microbial quality observed to vary widely, suggesting
contamination during milking or post milking caused by poor
handling and/or dirty utensils and surrounding.
13. Evaluation of Economic Impacts
Traders and exposure to training: comparing outcomes between
milk traders who have undergone training and milk traders who
have not undergone training in the exposed site (Kamrup),
baseline and current
Producers and exposure to training: comparing outcomes between
producers who have undergone training and producers who
have not undergone training in the exposed site (Kamrup),
baseline and current
Hypotheses:
Training in milk handling will have precipitated changes in milk
handling practices that are then rewarded by consumers with
either higher prices or more quantity sold.
Increased prices or higher volume of sales are hypothesized to
have been engendered by the consumer recognition of
improved milk quality and safety from better trained milk traders.
14. Training outcomes on milk traders:
higher milk volume procured and sold, higher costs
Exposed (Kamrup)
With training Without training
P value
Mean STD Mean STD
1. Total milk procured per day (liter)
146.79 266.50 86.03 181.19 0.09
2. Total milk sold per day (liter) 151.56 266.43 90.15 186.74 0.09
3. Cost of milk procured per day (RS)
4129.70 8085.92 2236.20 5530.79 0.08
4. Cost of operations per day (RS)
260.47 325.29 153.68 139.81 0.00
5. Total costs/day (3+4) (RS) 4390.17 8375.34 2389.88 5661.26 0.07
Cost/liter milk sold (RS) 28.97 11.50 26.51 13.77 0.56
15. Training outcomes on producers:
higher production volume, slightly lower price/liter of milk
Exposed (Kamrup)
With training Without training
P value
Mean STD Mean STD
Total milk produced/day (liter) 81.81 52.54 71.73 52.65 0.28
Total value of milk produced/day (RS) 2332.15 1532.44 2078.22 1576.92 0.39
Weighted price of milk produced/day
(RS/liter)
28.28 2.01 28.60 1.29 0.09
16. Milk traders (comparing baseline and current):
Decline in quantity sold, increase in price/liter
Baseline Current P
value
Mean STD Mean STD
1. Milk sales to:
Consumer household (liter) 73.52 88.13 33.06 29.93 0.00
Consumer sale point (liter) 0.00 0.00 28.16 76.89 0.01
Vendors (liter) 0.00 0.00 9.59 41.68 0.10
Hotel/sweet market (liter) 170.80 238.50 74.08 156.91 0.02
Cottage processor (liter) 0.00 0.00 4.16 28.57 0.31
Other (liter) 1.20 8.49 1.37 3.64 0.90
2. Own household consumption (liter) 9.43 42.87 2.32 1.18 0.25
Quantity of milk traded per day (liter) 254.95 297.72 152.74 253.76 0.07
Total value of milk traded (RS) 5430.99 6313.61 4729.03 8056.61 0.63
Weighted price (RS/litter) 21.72 1.64 29.54 2.52 0.00
17. Producers (comparing baseline and current):
Increase in revenues and price/liter of milk sold
Baseline Current P
ValueMean STD Mean STD
1. Milk sales to:
Vendor 52.00 83.84 52.00 41.75 0.98
Cooperative 5.10 19.14 5.40 16.55 0.94
Consumer household 6.00 19.86 3.00 10.82 0.20
Other 0.00 2.14 0.00 0.00 0.32
2. Farmer own household
consumption
3.10 1.61 2.90 2.28 0.54
Total qty of milk produced/day
(liter)
66.40 84.15 63.40 45.55 0.77
Total value of milk produced/day
(RS)
1333.28 1770.53 1776.95 1361.83 0.07
Weighted price (RS/liter) 20.08 4.69 28.03 6.39 0.00
18. Estimates of economic benefits (actor level,
matched sample in baseline and current)
Control (Jorhat) Exposed (Kamrup)
Producer Trader Consumer Producer Trader Consumer
Number of observations 50 34 27 112 192 45
1. Buying price - 27.18 30 - 29.91 33
2. Selling price 24 27.8 - 28.61 31.16 -
3. Profit margin * 0.62 * 1.25
4. Value added 3.8 2.82 2.55 3.09
6. % share of retail price
to producer
80 87
- For producer, cost per liter produced, not estimated due to absence of data at baseline.
* Profit margin at producer level could not be estimated due to absence of cost of production data at
baseline; previous ILRI study estimated returns to labor at 3 rupees per liter (ILRI 2007).
19. Estimates of sector* level economic benefits
Estimate of milk sold traders in Guwahati
Total no. of traders (expert opinion) 550
Average quantity /day (from survey data) 202
Total liters/day (accounting for 75% of total milk traded) 111,100
Projected to 100% (liters) 148,133
Value added (rupees)/day 835,472
Annual VA (USD at 54 USD = 1 INR) 5,647,172
*These are preliminary estimates.
20. Conclusions and implications
There are economic incentives to training
in milk handling.
Informal milk markets are efficient.
There are economic incentives from
traditional dairying, providing livelihood
opportunities for smallholder dairy
farmers and informal milk traders.
Traditional dairying brings about economic
benefits ($5.6 million per year),
highlighting its potential for pro-poor
development in the State of Assam.
21. Implications for smallholder participation
in dairy development
Informal milk traders continue to play
important role in procurement and
marketing in traditional dairy systems.
Informal milk traders and dairy producers
have greater responsibility in ensuring milk
quality and safety standards are met.
Advocate for continuous vigorous training &
certification programs to improve
understanding of the importance of milk
hygiene and clean milk production and to
adopt proper milk handling practices.
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