Food Safety: Food Crisis Management

Artificial neural network (ANN) has widely used to various sectors in agriculture. In term of food security management, ANN used to determine food crisis level based on its factors. The aim of this research is to increase ANN performance in term of pattern recognition by advanced learning using updated data as well as ANN weight analysis. This research has used multi-layer perceptron 2 hidden layers with backpropagation algorithm. The input-output patterns were food crisis factors and crisis level, respectively. Result showed that advance learning could increase accuracy level. It was from 70,55% to 85,38%. Based on weight analysis of ANN neuron, factors that affected to crisis level were: (1) crop failure/natural disaster, (2) normative consumption ratio, (3) rice price, (4) stock exchange, (5) infant mortality, (6) non forest area, (7) currency, (8) people under poverty line, (9) underweight infant and (10) annual rainfall. The 3 big factors are critical aspect should be concerned in food crisis management. Keywords: ANN, backpropagation, food crisis management, food security

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Animals' rescue as an essential essential factor of success of an evacuation process in disasters

Postępy Nauk Medycznych ◽

10.25121/pnm.2019.32.3.99 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Robert Pasławski ◽

Dorota Zyśko ◽

Urszula Pasławska

Keyword(s):

Food Safety ◽

Infectious Diseases ◽

Natural Disasters ◽

Human Health ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Emergency Services ◽

Emergency Evacuation ◽

International Terrorism ◽

Essential Factor ◽

Veterinary Services

Factors that complicate the evacuation process include the presence of children, elders and animals – especially when there are many animals of different species. Owners often refuse to evacuate if their animals cannot be transported with them. This is becoming a growing problem, given that many people own animals, e.g. 50% of Americans own pets. In Poland, in the case of incidents or disaster, the evacuation operation is managed by the first-arriving emergency services or provincial crisis management centres. The obligation concern exclusively humans, but no animals. In the case of disasters, the state veterinary services are not obliged to protect the animals on site unless they pose a threat to human health. These services focus on food safety, preventing transmission of infectious diseases and attending to sick animals. However, it seems that veterinary services should be more involved in the planning and implementation of the emergency evacuation process. Help from veterinarians can increase the efficiency of the evacuation process and the number of people and animals evacuated. In recent years, this issue has become increasingly important because societies are threatened not only by natural disasters, but also by international terrorism.

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Vulnerability Assessment for Food Crisis Management in the Sahel Region

Geo-information for Disaster Management ◽

10.1007/3-540-27468-5_59 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 819-827 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Maurizio Bacci ◽

Tiziana De Filippis ◽

Andrea Di Vecchia ◽

Bakary Djaby ◽

Francesca Incerti ◽

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Keyword(s):

Crisis Management ◽

Vulnerability Assessment ◽

Food Crisis ◽

Sahel Region

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IGU Study Group on Famine and Food Crisis Management

GeoJournal ◽

10.1007/bf02484709 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 126-126

Keyword(s):

Crisis Management ◽

Study Group ◽

Food Crisis

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FOOD SAFETY CRISIS MANAGEMENT PLAN IN HONG KONG

Journal of Food Safety ◽

10.1111/j.1745-4565.2009.00164.x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 394-413

Author(s):

S.F. CHAN ◽

ZENOBIA C.Y. CHAN

Keyword(s):

Hong Kong ◽

Food Safety ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Management Plan ◽

Crisis Management Plan

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