A method for assessing food security information system

Abstract

This paper develops a method for assessing food security information system with respect to its structure, connectedness and performance. The paper illustrates how to set up an operational food security information system, identify its leverage components and pathways of information flow, and qualitatively measure its performance in terms of utility obtained from the information. Both a workshop and a questionnaire are designed as means of gathering the data required for the measurement of the performance. The workshop identifies priority information flow patterns and the associated utilities, while the questionnaire gathers the data for the estimation of the organizational learning and information dissemination capacities. Finally, the evaluation of the system is put in perspective by integrating the traditional structure-conduct-performance approach into the method developed.

Innovations of agro-food chains in Ukraine

“…While generalizing the results of studies of foreign scientists, one can come to a conclusion that the innovative nature of agro-food chains is ensured by the following conditions: promoting the creation of favorable conditions for the development of inclusive innovative processes at each level of the chain; ensuring the access to information, knowledge, leading practices and the support in applying the latter; promoting the development of long-term partnership between interested participants of the agro-food business-models and spreading competitive approaches towards the organization of functioning agro-food chains [7,8].…”