On August 25, the conversation on myths, challenges and solutions in the agri-food supply chains was held in collaboration with UNAM, MIT and the UTEC formed by the speakers: Christopher Mejía, Claudia Antonini, José Larco, Mitzi Gómez, and Salvador Andrade. Without a doubt an enriching talk for more than 300 spectators who attended the talk and will be commented on below.
Opening the Conservatory with Chris Mejia who takes key points to understand What is the role as a society in the supply chain? The Latin American effort to continue nurturing and building better chains from farmers to the final consumer, considering nutrition and food waste, big challenges like How to make products affordable at retail outlets near us? And inviting society to take care of the future of our world as it is its own responsibility to see our consumption patterns and always think before wasting or acquiring any product.
Claudia Antonini with her experience in research projects within Peru, tells us about the inequity that exists within these chains where 70% of the population lives in extreme poverty and does not have access to all the variety of fruits and vegetables in this country, being geographically one of the most nutrient-rich countries, proposes How to help small farmers? Pursuing better harvest prices, since this depends on the quality of life of these peasants, inequality being one of the main challenges that are lived within the fields.
Dr. José Larco, who proposes that you don’t have a solution for everything, however, you can build to go on eradicating constant problems, emphasizing the importance of the human side and how it is necessary when there is a problem, in this case from the beginning of the value chain, go to the source where things happen, listen and understand the context, proposes the problem of how to connect farmers with markets?
Finally, with the participation of Mtro. Salvador Andrade who with his experience in the private sector and now as an academic at ENES León talks about the value of the Latin American countryside and its ideal conditions for agricultural production, making reflections aimed at generating greater value and rethinking the strategy on exports and production within Latin American countries, where the government and its public policies play an important role in both the activities of smallholder farmers as well as the infrastructure and their rural communities.
With the previous one, all those interested are invited to add with their research contributions, human talent is sought that wants to change this reality making a difference in their country, community or region, opening the field in different disciplines, such as logistics, engineering, administration, nutrition, sociology, among others, being spokespeople for the family and new generations about social consciousness being responsible for what we consume and waste, a more active role in society.