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DuPont de Nemours — Investor Presentation (2012)
35 slides from DuPont de Nemours's investor presentation, 2012
Slide 1: How Secured Is Vietnam's Food Security?
HOW SECURED IS VIETNAM’S FOOD SECURITY? Prof. Dr. Vo-Tong Xuan Rector, Tan Tao University Long An.
Slide 2: Outline
Outline • What is FOOD SECURITY • What is the extent of FOOD INSECURITY • What is the long-term outlook • What can be done to enhance food security
Slide 3: What is Food Security
What is FOOD SECURITY When all people at all time have physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life.
Slide 4: What is Food Security
What is FOOD SECURITY • Availability • Access • Utilization
Slide 5: What is Food Security: Availability
What is FOOD SECURITY • Availability The availability of sufficient quantity of food of appropriate quality, supplied through domestic production or imports
Slide 6: What is Food Security: Access
What is FOOD SECURITY • Access Access by households and individuals to adequate resources to acquire appropriate foods for a nutritious diet.
Slide 7: What is Food Security: Utilization
What is FOOD SECURITY • Utilization Utilization of foods through adequate diet, water, sanitation, and health care.
Slide 8: What is Food Security
What is FOOD SECURITY • Food Availability • Food Access • Food Utilization All three elements are required to assure food security.
Slide 9: Path from overcoming food deficiency to export of excess food
The path from overcoming food deficiency to export of excess food. • After the war, production of food increased slowly due to unpopular policies. • With the Contract 100 policy since 1981, and improved science and technology rice production was boosted up. • Doi Moi policy (land reform, one price a
Slide 10: Role of Science & Technology
Role of Science & Technology • In the south: + breeding and selection from IRRI short duration rice varieties, BPH resistant, high yielding. + improve eating quality and aroma • In the north: + rice varieties selected from national breeding programs and IRRI and China + the use hybrid rice from Chin
Slide 11: Role of Science & Technology
Role of Science & Technology • Plant protection measures against: • Brown planthopper, other insects; • Blast, sheath blight and other diseases; • Rodents, snails. • Soil fertility improvement: • N, P, K, organic manure • Problem soils amendement: • Acid sulphate soil:
Slide 12: Challenges to Food Security
Challenges to Food Security • Population increases, income increases, • Industrialization increases… • Urbanization increases…. • Rice export demand increases • Climate change becomes a reality. In the meantime: • Soil resources decrease • Water resources become more and more unusual
Slide 13: Challenges to Food Security
Challenges to Food Security • Farmers confuse and abuse chemicals in their rice fields: • Too many kinds of pesticides; • Too many kinds of fertilizers; • Many plant growth substances. • Post-harvest handling of paddy: • Harvesting by combine-harvester • Drying • Storage • Processing
Slide 14: Adaptation with climate change
Adaptation with climate change More investment in research for new rice varieties: - resistant to major new insects and diseases; - tolerant to deep water, drought, and salinity
Slide 15: Sources of water
Sources of water • Rain water • lakes/rivers, • wetlands and • marine waters
Slide 16: Rivers and lakes
Rivers and lakes Large-scale development of river and groundwater resources is less acceptable and less cost effective now than it was in the 1960-1990 period, when most of the world’s 45,000 large dams were built. A parallel development is that the water infrastructure built in recent decades is be
Slide 17: Reservoirs and groundwater
Reservoirs are silting up, irrigation networks are crumbling and there appears to be a decreasing willingness to fund rehabilitation and replacement of this infrastructure. Groundwater Levels are falling in key aquifers that have contributed substantially to food security in recent years, by providi
Slide 18: Water & the agricultural sector
Water & the agricultural sector • Farmers have large appropriation of water over the last three decades– cheap and plentiful • Irrigation water use therefore not efficient – extravagant - 1 • As population grows, irrigation water requirement will increase two folds Both from surface sources and grou
Slide 19: Water & the urban sector
Water & The urban sector With improved lifestyle, water use will increase many folds in households Industrial development – more water use
Slide 20: Competing for water
Competing for water • Agriculture and rural domestic use • Urban and rural domestic water use • Industries and households • The poor are affected most
Slide 21: Health and environment
Health and environment • Polluted water from intensive agricultural systems affecting farmers’ health, fish • Polluted water from industries affecting urban population and fishes.
Slide 22: Looking beyond Vietnam border
Looking beyond Vietnam border • The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit 17 in Phnom Penh launches new GMS Strategic Framework 2012-2022. • One uncertainty remains: the sustainable use of the water resources has not been seriously studied to ensure the GMS countries’ role in world food security. •
Slide 23: Rice production at stake when water resources exploited
Rice production at stake when water resources exploited • Consistant droughts throughout the Mekong river system since 2006. • Irregular floods of the entire system since year 2000. • Following Vietnam’s 20% expanding dry season rice, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos is planning to increase dry season ri
Slide 24: Expanding dry season rice areas in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia
As dry season rice areas are expanding in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia – More decreasing flow of fresh water will become unavailable to the downstream rice production in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta. – Abstraction of lowflow Mekong water in dry season without balancing with regional river flow may end
Slide 25: Contribution of discharges to Mekong River Basin
Contribution of discharges to Mekong River Basin Description assis WRB Yunnan, China Myanmar Lao POR Thailand Cambodia Vietnam Catchment rea hm’) 165.000 24000 202000 184000 155000 65000 795000 Contribution to MRB total (%) | 3 3 B i) 8 100 % of total area of country/province 38 4 7 36 86 0 Average
Slide 26: Availability of water resources and withdrawals
Table 5 Availability of water resources and withdrawals Riparian country or province Availability* Withdrawal Total 1995 (m’) Per capita 1995 (m’) Estimated per capita 2020 (m’)** Total 1995 (m’) Per capita 1995 (m’) Withdrawal to availability in 1995 (%) Yunnan province, China 2 800000 2292 5171 50
Slide 27: Upstream Mekong Forest Exploitation and Dam Construction
Upstream Mekong Forest Exploitation and Dam Construction • Deforestation of lower Mekong basin: 32,910 ha (1970); 839,000 ha (1985) • Yunnan – completion of 4/12 dams, logging needs, crop diversification • Northern Laos – dam and logging • Northeast Thailand - new dam & logging • Western and norther
Slide 28: Hydropower dams in Yunnan, China
Hydropower dams in Yunnan, China, did not deliver the water flow situation as it promised: release more water during dry season; and withholding flood when the downstream is flooded. Wen in drought areas in Yunnan (upstream). Bangkok Post March 23, 2010
Slide 29: Dried up canal in My Xuyen district
At downstream, dried up canal in the “freshened water zone” in My Xuyen district, Soctrang province. Photo taken March 25, 2010.
Slide 30: Monsoon flooding of downstream rice fields
By contrast, in monsoon season, flood water from upstream of the Mekong river system devastated millions of rice fields downstream. (Photos taken September 2011) 21.10.2000
Slide 31: Three Key Challenges (IUCN White Paper)
Three Key Challenges (IUCN White Paper) • First, four countries in the region must work together for the common good and, if necessary, develop a common negotiating position with countries of the Upper Mekong.
Slide 32: Three Key Challenges (IUCN White Paper)
Three Key Challenges (IUCN White Paper) • Second, an holistic environmental flow assessment has never been done in Asia, or on a river the size of the Mekong, or on a major floodplain- dominated river; there are no precedents to follow.
Slide 33: Three Key Challenges (IUCN White Paper)
Three Key Challenges (IUCN White Paper) • Third, there can be few rivers where the tangible and intangible (quality of life) issues of so many subsistence users are at stake. Ways need to be found to present these issues quantitatively and in detail so that they become a vital component of the decis
Slide 34: 2nd World Water Forum, The Hague
2nd World Water Forum March 2000, The Hague (over 120 ministers, over 5000 stakeholder representatives and water professionals, and over 600 journalists) Water - a “major issue” for food security The Global Water Partnership concluded: “On the one hand, the fundamental fear of food shortages encoura
Slide 35: Urgent Need
Urgent Need • Vietnam’s food security in the next 10 years depends on the available flow of the Mekong River. • An updated holistic assessment of the available water that can be abstracted from each country of the GMS group, to assure sustainable water resource development without adverse effect on