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Metropolitan Food Clusters

sustainable food for 21st century global urban society

Please visit our website at www.metropolitanfoodclusters.wur.nl

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.

Example resource use efficiency: the Dutch tomato space and water footprint

Delivering fresh products to markets is key technology. Mexico is currently poorly connected to the freight container network

MFC Key Innovation 2: Agrologistics

MFC Key innovation 3: vertical integration shortening of production chains

Example: Broiler Chain

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

MFC Key innovation 4: horizontal integration of production chains

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

s

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

Example: Agriport A7

Warehouses and

logistics

Greenhouses

and power

generation

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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

Example: Masterplan Agropark Greenport Caofeidian, China: ecocity-agropark

All this is not a blueprint that simply will be copied Every region needs its own specific tailor made elaboration


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