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Metropolitan Food Clusters
Transcript of Metropolitan Food Clusters
Metropolitan Food Clusters
sustainable food for 21st century global urban society
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Input from: Stichting Onderzoek Wereldvoedselvoorziening, VU Amsterdam Jouke Campen, Plant Research International , Wageningen UR Johan Sanders, Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen UR Nieuw Gemengd Bedrijf Nieuw Prinsenland
Stichting Onderzoek Wereldvoedselvoorziening van de Vrije Universiteit
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Population Density
Inh./km2
Growth Urban-Rural population
The world is urbanizing
• Metropoles are the nodes
of the 21th century network society
• Agro production takes a new shape in metropolitan food clusters
• The distinction between urban and rural areas within metropoles is vanishing
• Young and smart inhabitants of rural areas move first, causing rural collapse in areas still responsible for traditional food production
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Urban people have more purchasing power: shift in consumption basket
Increasing consumption of processed food.
Increasing consumer discern from food availability towards safe, healthy and high quality food
Transparency in food chain “from farm gate to food plate”
Africa (Sub-
Sahara)
India, China, SE Asia
Latin America
Eastern Europe
N. America, Japan,
W.Europe, Australia
Diet/Functional/
Organic Foods
Convenience
Foods, Snacks
Prepared Meals
Dairy, Meat, Fish,
Diversified fruits
and vegetables,
Fresh Fruit Juices,
Carbohydrate
Staples
Surviving Mass
Market
Convenience
Food Service
Snacking
Quality
Hygiene
High
Technology
Metropolitan Food Clusters meet these challenges
Consumer driven, answering diverse food requirements and quality demand based on increasing purchasing power.
Network of industrial agricultural producers and processors, waste and water managers, energy providers making optimal use of logistics and knowledge flows that all concentrate in a metropolitan environment.
Are a significant contribution to sustainable development of the metropolis itself
MFC Key innovation 1: Resource Use Efficiency
Von Liebigs Law of the minimum factor Liebschers law of integrated development
Resource use efficiency in agroproduction increases with the level of integration: the number of controlled factors as well as their intensity.
Delivering fresh products to markets is key technology. Mexico is currently poorly connected to the freight container network
MFC Key Innovation 2: Agrologistics
An example of vertical integration: opportunities of an integrated poultry chain
Integration reduces transport and veterinary risks
Better meat quality because of stress reduction
Reduction of contamination and prevention of loss of taste
Large scale and industrial mode of production enables radical environmental technology: Smell -Ammonia emission -Fine dust reduction
Mother animals
Genetics
Egg production
Breeding
Broilers
Slaughtering
Processing
Short
chain
broiler
production
manure
CO2
Energy
Retail
Feed
Technologies for horizontal integration
Thermophyllic co-digestation at 55°C, very efficient.
● Processing 120.000 ton organic waste/yr, producing 4.5 MW power.
● Co-digester is core of industrial ecology in agropark
Microalgae refineries
● Grown on waste water
● Production of many interesting products
● Proteins for food/feed
● Oils for biodiesel
● Omega 3 fatty acids
MFC Key innovation 5: Co-design: Integral design of hardware, orgware and software
Hardware What you can hold
Orgware
Implementation & operation
Business planning
Investments in infrastructure
Consortium building
Stakeholder network
External relations
Development policy
Procedures and protocols
Licences and permits
Park management
Risk management
What you can organize Software
Knowledge management
Team development
Management of emotions
Communication
Marketing
Quality management
HRM
Education and Capacity
building (cooperation)
What you feel & think
Infrastructures
Demonstration facilities
Trade facilities
Production facilities
Processing facilities
Landscape and nature
Recreation and leisure
Routing
NGO’s go for influence
Co-design: Integral design based on local ownership of the project and delivering solutions for all stakeholders
Transition management
facilitates
transfers between
the currencies and builds
trust
Entrepreneurs go for profit Politicians go for power
Knowledge workers go
for peer reviewed
publications
Government Entrepreneur
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Knowledge
institutions NGO’s
Government
Entrepreneurs
Knowledge
institutions
NGO’s/CSO’s
MFC is much more than just prime agricultural production: It is in fact a regional innovation cluster
SME metal construction lindustry
Software
developers
Financial
services
Advanced
other producer
Services
Regional and
local
government
Marketing and
communication
Processors, logistics, trade
primairy producers
Other
customers
Other
customers Other
customers
Other
customers
The MFC key innovations together take the spatial shape of an intelligent agro logistic network
High productive land with village and farms
Low productive land
Natural forest
Urban land
Agroparks are spatial cluster of high-productive plant and animal production and processing units in industrial mode combined with the input of high levels of knowledge and technology. The application of industrial ecology reduces costs and environmental emissions
Key spatial element of MFC 1: Agropark
RTC’s are the satellites in rural areas where the inputs from land dependent production for the whole network are collected. They will also be the centers for training and education of high productive farmers.
Key spatial element of MFC 2: Rural Transformation Centre (RTC)
Scope for Rural Transformation
Aiming at land-dependent farmers who want to join the MFC
Change from middle-man system to vertically integrated chain and contract farming
Transformation process induced through RTC:
● changes towards better products
● added value to production system & value chain
● quality improvement of products
● less post-harvest loss
● adopting new transport and pre-processing techniques
● empowerment of present rural inhabitants to change their lives
Collection centre
Cleaning, Sorting & Grading
Community Function Hall Pre processing
Units Bank Microcredits
Commercial Rural Market Office Space
Mentoring Training
Quality Control Lab
Warehousing
Rural Transformation Center
Village
Village Village
Village Village
Village
Rural Transformation
Center
Commercial infrastructure
Agri infrastructure Social infrastructure
Commercial infrastructure
In consolidation centers, products, both raw and processed, coming from the rural environment or from specialized agroparks, are combined with import flows, if necessary be processed further, and then recombined and distributed into the metropole
Key spatial element of MFC 3: Consolidation Centre
Example: Processing, trade, distribution & consolidation in Fresh Park Venlo
Storage,
distribution,
processing, trade
and services,
Serves a
metropolitan
market, 7 mln
consumers in
German Ruhr Area
In a consumer
responsive way
Throughout the
whole year
Example: Metropolitan Food Cluster Greenport Venlo
Floriade
Greenhouse area
Consolidation
Centre
(Sub)urban area
Large scale Pig farm
Large scale Chicken farm
Large scale Dairy
farm
Harbour
Industrial ecology
Isolated
Greenhouses
Example: Greenfield Agropark, Agriport A7
Warehouses and
logistics
Greenhouses
and power
generation
• Centre for growing vegetables, agribusiness
industry and logistics, 30 minutes from
Amsterdam
• Primary production:
– Large scale glasshouses : 500
ha
growing to 1.000 ha
– Field crops :
40.000 ha
• Vegetables industry, logistics and services
– Business park: 70 ha
• To be added
– Large scale dairy
– closed fish production and processing
– ICT-server centre
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Greenhouses
Digester
Sugar Factory
Water Sanitation
Land dependent agriculture
Co-digester
Melasse storage
30 ha eggplant greenhouse
Example Nieuw Prinsenland: Symbiosis and cooperation