"Indiscriminate Food Insecurity: Road Transportation Management Contribution in Low/Middle Income Economy "

Abstract

In the history of human race cultures down memory lane to present day civilization, man has learnt to utilized and preserve numerous agriculture material harvested from the wild, hunt, and even explore sea foods overtime until majority are now be classified as domesticated culture from direct conventional practices back in ages. Although, many were selectively domesticated with interest to their produce, product, nutritional value, among several other benefits. These practices however have contributed a very efficient balance to our ecosystem regardless of the environmental dominance and occurrence, coupled with other applicable man-environment service forming the basis of agricultural practice. Prior to these services, many of these items require transportation (road, sea, etc.) at several point of the supply chain. Unfortunately, the facilities enhancing freshness preservation attached to these road transporting medium (especially trucks and bus the most patronized inland choice) utilized for numerous food items has consistently been ignored on the potential effect it can cause on the shelf stability and freshness based on the unstructured and rugged management associated to the medium (truck and bus) subject in many low/middle income economies. Today, tonnes of imported and local food items have one or more inland trucking and/or buses mobilization within the supply chains they must undergo before they eventually get to the final consumers with significant percentage loss associated to the road transporting medium worldwide. This review aims at creating awareness on existing research in Food Supply Chain (FSC), and the need for redesigned effective storage technology facilities in smaller trucks and buses for all kind fooditems (agricultural produce/product, sea foods etc.) while incorporating risk and sustainability strategies on transportation vehicles network in developing and underdeveloped countries especially, and with this effort, better sustainability on food security is attainable.