Building Resilience in Food Value Chains Through Natural Capital Accounting (NCA); a Perspective From the Asian Region

Janardhana Anjanappa
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Several studies have addressed issues related to food value chains focusing on reducing food loss and food waste (FLW) and improving efficiency and improve food security. In order to make food more accessible, affordable, and safe, food systems have contributed to unsustainable land-use practices, depletion of freshwater, pollution from chemicals, disruption of nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, biodiversity loss, and climate change. The present research captures broad range issues of food value chains but does not pay attention to access to natural capital and its dependencies. Since, it may have variety of impact and dependencies in their direct operations in the value chain. Therefore, this study proposes a framework to measure access to natural capital and its dependencies in food value chains and mainstreaming NCA within organizations of food value chains. A more-detailed quantification at each stage would also help a better understanding of the driving factors of FLW and natural capital exploitation at different stages. As a result, it helps policy-makers better understand which policies and strategies have been most-effective at achieving FLW reductions, and contribute overall to the reduction of FLW and the sustainability of the food system. Further, it helps to formulate regulations for companies that are damaging the natural capital and provide incentives for those who adopted sustainable management to mitigate environmental degradation.
通过自然资本核算(NCA)增强食品价值链抵御力亚洲地区的视角
几项研究解决了与粮食价值链相关的问题,重点是减少粮食损失和粮食浪费(FLW)以及提高效率和改善粮食安全。为了使粮食更容易获得、负担得起和安全,粮食系统助长了不可持续的土地利用做法、淡水枯竭、化学品污染、氮和磷循环中断、生物多样性丧失和气候变化。目前的研究涵盖了食品价值链的广泛问题,但没有关注获取自然资本及其依赖关系。因为,它可能在价值链中的直接操作中有各种各样的影响和依赖性。因此,本研究提出了一个框架来衡量食品价值链中自然资本的获取及其依赖性,并将NCA纳入食品价值链组织的主流。在每个阶段进行更详细的量化也有助于更好地了解不同阶段的自然资本开发和自然资源流动的驱动因素。因此,它有助于决策者更好地了解哪些政策和战略最有效地实现了减少非法流失量,并为减少非法流失量和粮食系统的可持续性做出了总体贡献。此外,它有助于为破坏自然资本的公司制定规章,并为那些采用可持续管理以减轻环境退化的公司提供奖励。
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