Strategies of Food Management System of Thailand

Abstract

A national food management strategy under the authorization of the National Food Commis-sion was proposed. The qualitative research was conducted during February - September 2008, bygathering, reviewing and analyzing the data for primary and secondary sources covering a wholefood chain. The brainstorming’ meeting had been carried out to evaluate the problems in all foodaspects with the participation of experts, government administrators and all sectors related to food.The SWOT analysis had been applied to analyze strength and weakness in Thailand’s food systemfrom past to present. In addition, the opportunities and threats had been evaluated from internal andexternal factors affecting the national food system in all aspects. After that, the national food man-agement strategies and policies have been proposed including the concept of reorganizing a nationalfood management framework. The vision was defined as “Thailand had food security with theexcellent management at the international level.” The nine strategies were proposed as follows;1. promotion a system and mechanism for encouraging participation of all sectors, 2. establishmentof a food crisis management system, 3. systematical organizing of food information, 4. strengthen-ing the producing sector and food distribution, 5. amendment of laws and regulations and theirenforcement, 6. development and application knowledge in food supply chain, 7. establishment ofmonitoring and evaluation the implementation of measures 8. consolidation of food business and 9.formulation of standard criteria of food quality and safety.