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|a Chua, Kim Aik ,
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|a Managing food security and sustainable intensification :
|b a case study of seed industry in Malaysia
|c Chua Kim Aik
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|c 2017
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|a Thesis (Degree of Doktor of Philosophy, Economics and Management Sciences) - Universiti Zainal Abidin, 2017
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|a Includes bibliographical references (leaves 203-209)
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|a 1. Introduction -- 2. Agriculture and seed industry development -- 3. Literature review -- 4. Methodology -- 5. Results -- 6. Conclusions and recommendations
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|a The world population is predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050. This growing population will put enormous pressure on resources including land, water and food. It is clear that food security is becoming an issue of great importance in, not only developing countries, but also in the developed world. Food insecurity is a common problem among low-income households in developing countries, including Malaysia. Malaysia's agricultural commodities showed an increase of 54.7% (2016) in the import dependency ratio (lOR) as compared to 48.2% in 2015. The higher lOR indicates more agricultural commodities were needed to be imported. To be self¬sufficient and attain food security, the growing need is to produce more food from less land. This formidable challenge has been brought to the attention of all policy makers, to realize the importance of agriculture, to put emphasis on food production and declared food self-sufficiency as their strategy to attain food security. This challenge and its complex, sustainable development issue triggered changes within the agriculture industry and has promoted development of the seed industry. The emphasis is on developing high yielding seed. High quality seed is the most important input for a productive agriculture. The seed industry in Malaysia is falling behind, not well develop, and apparently still at the early phase of development. Hence, high quality seed is difficult to obtain due to a lack of participation. To develop any industry requires strategy. The seed industry has rarely been an empirical selling for research, while within this research area, the start-up of new seed industry activities is viewed as the exploitation of business opportunities. In the Resource-Based View perspective, the focus has been directed towards business start-up as a resource acquisition process, where the availability of unique resources is presumed to promote industry development. In this study, face-to-face and semi-structured interviews have been adopted. In addition, a verbatim transcription was used to produce an original of the data from the interviews. Data collected from the interviews was analyzed qualitatively using Atlas.ti version 7. The findings were reported according to research questions. To attain food security, Malaysia has to focus on increased productivity by developing high yielding and environmentally adaptable seeds. Intensifying the development of the seed industry requires multiple dimensions of resources; namely, it was clear that intangible resources provided a better chance to sustain a competitive advantage and led to the growth of the seed industry in Malaysia. In addition, based on the results, environmental factors, human capital, government policy and brand reputation could be factors that influence the development of the seed industry. To develop sustainable growth of the seed industry in Malaysia, there should be a focus on intangible resources. This anticipated finding would be useful information for policy makers and investors in their planning and decision-making. The proposed business model suggests a focus on harmonizing a development model, capitalizing on environmental advantages, changing market structure and liberalizing the current policy.
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