FEEM Approach to Supply Chain Analysis The coffee Sector in Kenya

Hussain, Lamya Adil Sulliman; Inzoli, F.; Golinucci, Nicolò; Stevanato, Nicolò; Rocco, Matteo Vincenzo; Colombo, Emanuela

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“…Coffee is also the most water-intensive crop in Kenya (in terms of water volume per produced tonne), the third crop by total volumetric water consumption, and the most important component of the Kenyan virtual water export (Mekonnen & Hoekstra, 2011). The coffee production and export sector in Kenya, among the biggest in Africa, currently employs around 5 million people (L. A. S. Hussain et al, 2020).…”

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“…Some 700,000 small scale farmers, organized in hundreds of cooperatives to which they sell their cherries, account for 80% of the country's coffee production (Mugo et al, 2019). The rest are around 3,000 large coffee estates, selling their own coffee directly (L. A. S. Hussain et al, 2020). The Kenyan government recently approved a plan for the development and expansion of agriculture, including coffee plantations, in order to promote agricultural and economic development (Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), 2018b).…”

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A blue water scarcity-based method for hydrologically sustainable agricultural expansion design

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Chiarelli

Ricciardi

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At the heart of the vision of sustainable development and intergenerational responsibility lies the prudent use of natural resources. Agriculture is a key sector both in terms of resources consumed and of goods and services provided. Recently Its intensification and expansion have been studied and their sustainability evaluated, often with a particular focus on water management. While, in literature, possible agricultural strategies have been based on local water availability and, in some cases, downstream effects of such strategies have been evaluated, a method to identify and quantify hydrologically sustainable land use and crop use changes directly accounting for downstream effects is yet to be defined. Here we propose a framework to assess hydrological sustainability of land use and crop use changes, preventing both in situ and downstream effects. We apply this framework on the case study of coffee plantations expansion in Kenya, a sector that is seeing, and is planned to see, a rapid growth, given its potential in promoting agricultural, economic, and social development, not without risks associated to hydroclimatic change. We simulate the hydrological alterations caused by coffee plantation expansion onto available suitable areas, and use these simulations to identify areas where the expansion does not generate water scarcity either in situ or downstream. The assessment of hydrological suitability proves effective in preventing water availability reduction. Areas selected for expansion present similar total water footprints as currently used areas, but with higher precipitation-generated water availability. The proposed methodology identifies and quantifies areas in a physically robust, and thus transparent, way, also maintaining flexibility to the selected expansion scenario and low data intensity. This makes this framework a potentially easily replicable methodology for planning sustainable agricultural development within planetary boundaries.

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A blue water scarcity-based method for hydrologically sustainable agricultural expansion design

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Chiarelli

Ricciardi

et al. 2023

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“…We select Kenya as a case study for the recognized relevance of coffee in promoting agricultural, economic, and social development (International Coffee Organization, 2019), but also in the use of water resources (Mekonnen & Hoekstra, 2011). The coffee production and export sector in Kenya, among the biggest in Africa (L. A. S. Hussain et al., 2020) employs mostly smallholders organized in cooperatives, in contrast to many other coffee exporting countries (Mugo et al., 2019). Thus, national agricultural development and expansion plans include coffee plantations and growth rates for the coffee sector are increasing (Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA), 2018, 2021).…”

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A Blue Water Scarcity‐Based Method for Hydrologically Sustainable Agricultural Expansion Design

Galli,

Chiarelli,

Ricciardi

et al. 2023

Water Resources Research

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Sustainable development and intergenerational responsibility entail the prudent use of natural resources. Water availability can constrain agriculture, a key sector in terms of resources consumed and goods and services provided. The sustainability of its intensification and expansion has been studied, often with a particular focus on water. Agricultural strategies have been based on local water availability, and some downstream effects have been evaluated. However, a method to identify and quantify hydrologically sustainable land use and crop use changes directly accounting for downstream effects is yet to be defined. We propose a framework to design land‐use and crop‐use changes preventing local and downstream effects. We apply it on of coffee plantations expansion in Kenya, a sector that is growing and planned to grow, given its agricultural, economic and social development potential, not without risks associated to hydroclimatic change. We use crop‐ and land‐use specific hydrological modeling to simulate water scarcity impacts of coffee plantation expansion onto available suitable areas, and use the results to iteratively identify and filter out expansion areas increasing water scarcity locally or downstream. This assessment proves effective in preserving water availability, identifying 10% of the suitable and available areas as hydrologically sustainable. Total water footprints are similar in these expansion areas and in currently used areas, but expansion areas have higher precipitation‐generated water availability. The proposed methodology locates and quantifies areas in a physically robust way, maintaining flexibility to the selected expansion scenario. Thus, the methodology is replicable for planning hydrologically agricultural development.

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“…CSS is a waste of the coffee industry produced during the green coffee beans roasting [11]. The production of CSS related to the huge worldwide year production of coffee -between 15 and 9 10 6 ton [11,12] makes this waste as a potential feedstock for second generation biorefinery [13,14]. The experimental methodology previously applied to sugarcane straw [15] and apple residues [3] has been extended to CSS taking into account additional information on the effect of enzymes adsorption on the biomass.…”

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Effect of enzymes adsorption on enzymatic hydrolysis of coffee silverskin: Kinetic characterization and validation

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Montagnaro

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Biochemical Engineering Journal

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FEEM Approach to Supply Chain Analysis The coffee Sector in Kenya

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A blue water scarcity-based method for hydrologically sustainable agricultural expansion design

A blue water scarcity-based method for hydrologically sustainable agricultural expansion design

A Blue Water Scarcity‐Based Method for Hydrologically Sustainable Agricultural Expansion Design

Effect of enzymes adsorption on enzymatic hydrolysis of coffee silverskin: Kinetic characterization and validation

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