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Do farmers too benefit by keeping records?
You buy guavas from local superstore. They look fine, but when cut, you find worms inside. This is a common problem. These worms enter the product when it was only a flower and grow inside without showing any external signs. Superstore offers an apology, but no guarantee that you will not buy similar low quality products tomorrow. The supply chain is long and nobody is sure from where the stock comes from.
That is why ‘traceability’ matters. Food products are added more value by providing traceability information along with them.
Benefits of traceability to consumers are apparent. What about the rest? Do farmers too benefit?
These are some of the issues discussed at the two day workshop on Feb 21-22, on ‘Transaction Costs and Traceability: Potential of ICTs in the Agricultural Value Chain’ at Kandalama organized by LIRNEasia.
Visoot Phongsathorn presented information on agri value chains in Thailand and infrastructure regulations. Thailand has worked on agriculture traceability for sometime. Still the conditions are not necessarily satisfactory in case of shrimp and vegetables. The demand on food safety is not as high as it is in Europe but Thai government recognizes traceability as an integral part of quality infrastructure. The government ..read more
Tsunami detection system coming up; will the last mile be ready?
Second Tsunami-Detection Station To Bolster Indian Ocean System
As part of the U.S. effort, in December 2006, NOAA experts and Thai government officials put a deep-ocean assessment and reporting of tsunamis (DART) station in the Indian Ocean, halfway between Thailand and Sri Lanka. (See related article.)DART systems provide real-time tsunami detection as waves travel across open waters, and each station is linked to a satellite for real-time data transmission on global networks.
LIRNEasia researcher appointed Secretary to Minister of Finance Thailand
Our colleague who was a member of the six-country research study, Deunden Nikomborirak, has been appointed secretary to the new Minister of Finance in the interim Thai government. The news coverage of the appointment of the new Minister also mentions Deunden as one of his other pro-market colleagues. The new Minister, for example, had criticized the government’s December 2006 actions that led to capital flight.
We wish her the very best in her new responsibilities. Knowing her abilities and intellect, we are confident that Thailand will be well served, even if the research community loses in the short term.
Learning to Respond Intelligently
Often a response is a result of a stimulus. Evacuation drills are stimulus-response models; the drill is activated by a siren and the people are expected to react by hurrying to safety zones, in most cases defined by the community’s response plan; i.e. activating an existing emergency response plan.Social Cognition is encoding, storing, and retrieving social information and applying the cognition to social situations. Consider the social situation of a disaster and the event of setting of sirens. The awareness programming in community risk reduction helps the community prepare for social situations. Cognitive representation of social information are schema.
Biological Psychology defines “Awareness” as a human or animal perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event; awareness does not necessarily imply understanding.
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