BQI Beacon: Issue #5

Issue 5 covers these topics: 1) Not easy to industrialize animal agriculture in Kazakhstan. 2) Livestock sector is not hit by meat analog's growth in Korea. 3) Mariculture's adverse impacts on wild environment and lives. 4) Senegal's import ban benefits smaller scale broiler producers. 5) Power dynamics within Indonesia's laying hen industry. 6) Economic and financial drivers of livestock industries in LMICs.

Academic works featured and their key messages

1. Abdikerimova, Gulzhanar, et al. ““Economic assessment of the state of livestock industry in Kazakhstan: Prerequisites for the creation of a meat hub.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Expanding animal agriculture to meet increased demand in LMICs is often assumed to be simple, straightforward, and inevitable, but this is far from true.

2. Lee, D.Y., et al. “Market status of meat analogs and their impact on livestock industries.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: The plant-based meat analog sector in Korea is growing and local consumer interest is high, yet the conventional livestock sector continues to expand.

3. Sellars, Laurie, and Becca Franks. “How mariculture expansion is dewilding the ocean and its inhabitants.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Expansion and intensification of mariculture (farming aquatic species in the ocean) has adverse impacts on the wild environment and marine lives.

4. Chibanda, Craig, Christine Wieck, and Moussa Sall. “An analysis of the broiler value chain and economics of broiler production in Senegal: Status quo after two decades of import restrictions.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Medium and small-scale broiler producers in Senegal benefit from a two-decade ban on imports of chicken products.

5. Makmun, Makmun et al. “Power relations among actors in laying hen business in Indonesia: A MACTOR analysis.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: It is important to pay attention to the power dynamics within Indonesia's laying hen industry, which help to shape the balance between small-, medium-, and large-scale producers.

6. Tak, Mehroosh, Ambarish Karamchedu, and Ivo Syndicus. “Identifying economic and financial drivers of industrial livestock production - The case of the global chicken industry.”

   KEY TAKEAWAY: Expansion of livestock industries in LMICs such as India is crucially driven by corporate concentration, government policies, public and private capital.

Brief mention (non-academic reports)

1. Food Systems Countdown Initiative. “The food systems countdown report 2024: Tracking progress and managing interactions.”
2. FAO. “The guidelines for sustainable aquaculture.”