The Rice Bown Index: Using Open Data to help drive sustainable and robust food security across Asia/Pacific
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The document introduces the Rice Bowl Index, which aims to harness knowledge to make agriculture more sustainable and the world more food secure. It does this by distilling vast amounts of public data and information on food security into a concise index. The index evaluates four categories - farm-level capabilities, policy and trade environment, environmental capacity, and future demand and price trends - to identify both challenges and opportunities for concrete actions to improve food security in Asia. The ultimate goal is to facilitate an evidence-based, multi-stakeholder dialogue that shifts the focus from problems to solutions.
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The Rice Bown Index: Using Open Data to help drive sustainable and robust food security across Asia/Pacific
- 1. The Rice Bowl Index Translating Complexity into an Opportunity for Action
- 9. How can we harness knowledge to make agriculture sustainable? For a more food secure world.
- 10. 8 December 2015 Food security is threatened on two fronts: population growth and rising calorie consumption World population > 80% of growth happens in emerging markets 1950 2.5 billion 2011 7 billion 2050 9 billionEmerging Developed Source: FAO, Syngenta analysis 0 1 2 3 4 1970 2000 2010 2030 2050 World demand for major crops* bn tonnes +50% * Includes cereals, rice, corn and soybean Food Feed
- 11. 8 December 2015 There is a vast universe of data and information sources on food security and related topics
- 12. 8 December 2015 The RBI distills information from these numerous public sources, with an ultimate aim of facilitating concrete action
- 13. 8 December 2015 Introduction to the Rice Bowl Index (RBI) • Informing and stimulating public dialogue on food security in Asia • Creating and identifying opportunities for concrete action towards improving food security
- 14. 8 December 2015 Purpose: contribute to the broader effort of identifying and working towards solutions • Shift the focus of the debate from problem to solution • Support an evidence-based dialogue • Facilitate positive and productive multi- stakeholder dialogue, collaboration and action • Platform to support partnerships with government, food value chain, NGOs etc. • Food security high on policy agenda and is increasingly complex • Food production landscape in Asia is rapidly changing • Current food security debate is fragmented, problem-centric and opinion-driven
- 15. 8 December 2015 Four categories comprise the overall Index… Farm-Level Do the farmers have the capability and means to be productive? Policy and Trade Does the trade and policy environment encourage open markets, investment and innovation? Environmental Will the environmental capacity in the country provide for long-term agricultural productivity and sustainability? Demand and Price How will the food security needs in the country evolve? Quantity, affordability, access?
- 16. 8 December 2015 …Encompassing both the enabling and disabling factors of food security
- 17. 8 December 2015 1. Managing the impacts of climate change within the agrifood system 2. Adopting a new business model for smallholder producers 3. Improving supply chain effectiveness through to market 4. Investing in innovation and infrastructure 5. Creating an enabling policy and regulatory environment Emerging Challenges to Food Security
- 18. 8 December 2015 Thank you Crossing Thresholds www.ricebowlindex.com
Editor's Notes
- Every day, our planet wakes with 200,000 more mouths to feed. By 2050, the world's population would have increased by almost a third.
- And to feed this growing population, we have to improve our agricultural productivity. We need to grow more from the existing land we have.
- And losing farmland is just going to make things more difficult.
- Farming is a resource intensive activity. It uses 70 percent of the world's fresh water. Growing food for one person takes about 2,000 liters of water a day. And that’s certainly not helpful when we consider how resource-scarce our planet has become.
- So the first big challenge we are facing is this: How do we produce more food to feed the growing world population?
- And like in the case of the Vietnam farmer, more people are leaving rural communities to live and work in cities. Because farming is just such hard work. Yesterday, someone told me that the average age of farmers in the Philippines is now 57.
- And we have a commitment to our planet and its biodiversity. More than 1/3 of the world’s agriculture depend on pollination but pollinator populations are falling in many countries. I know this is starting to look like an NGO presentation, but these are challenges that affect all of us. It’s not just the responsibility of food and environmental NGOs to save the world.
- Can agriculture be the solution? Yes, but only if we do it properly.
- Food security in Asia-Pacific is not beyond the reach of the region’s consumers, farmers, governments, technology providers and relevant support agencies. Achieving food security does however require robust dialogue and sensible policy which the RBI aims to continue to make a valuable contribution.