Digital technologies have significant potential to improve efficiency, equity, and environmental sustainability in the food system. A range of digital technologies are already leading to: better informed and engaged consumers and producers, smarter farms, and improved public services.
... Exibir mais + Adoption of digital technologies varies significantly across countries, with lower current adoption rates in low-income countries. Increasing adoption will require addressing supply-side factors, such as rural network coverage and availability of digital applications, and demand-side factors, including skills and knowledge, trust, affordability, and complementary investments. While digital technologies have significant potential they also pose several risks that need to be addressed including: an overconcentration of service provider market power; lack of data privacy; exclusion; and cybersecurity breaches. These risks cut across all segments of the economy, including the food system. In addition, digital technologies should not be viewed as a panacea. Other investments are needed to address the multiple constraints farmers face and to realize the potential benefits of digital technologies.
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Indonesia is experiencing rapid urbanization, demographic changes, and changing dietary preferences. These trends have implications for the future of food demand and supply in the country.
... Exibir mais + The study shows that demand for cereals (except rice) will decrease while that of fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, and dairy products is likely to increase in the coming three decades. Indonesia’s future food supply and demand will thus be different from what they are today. These future dynamics have policy relevance to domestic food production and to market infrastructure improvement in the country. While they are home for about sixty percent of Indonesia’s population, Java and Bali have largely been exploited for food production and there will be increased competition for land and water, for non-agricultural uses, on those islands. Food production would therefore be expected to expand to other parts of the country. Whether the country’s food markets and related logistic infrastructures are ready to respond to such changes is a key question. This study aims to assess the spatial integration of Indonesia’s domestic food markets to identify aspects of market and logistics efficiency that would inform food systems planning going forward.
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