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* A guide to understanding, assessing and managing water in grocery supply chains 21/10/2010 *
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Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Assessing and Managing Water in Grocery Supply Chains  

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A free guide for food businesses providing guidance to understanding, assessing and managing water in grocery supply chains.

It will help you to:

  • Understand – the risk and importance of water
  • Assess – three steps to assess water in the grocery supply chain
  • Manage water – practical tips and sources of further information

This free guide pulls together experience, knowledge and information on water in the grocery supply chain into a single accessible source. It offers practical advice, identifying the risks and opportunities that water, in its widest sense, presents to the grocery supply chain. The guide can be used to raise awareness and build knowledge, and includes links to over 60 sources of further information.

It provides:

  • An understanding of the impact of water from raw material to consumer, and examples of how this impact varies by product, season and region of the world
  • A strategy for business to assess water in grocery supply chain:
    • At your own site
    • In extended grocery supply chains
    • By a detailed analysis of the impact of water embedded in specific products
  • Practical advice on managing water through the grocery supply chain
  • A perspective of the future in a water-constrained world

Created as an output from IGD’s Industry Sustainability Group, the guide will be of value to those engaged in sustainability, environment, supply chain, purchasing, food technology, communications and public relations.

You can download this guide free of charge as an interactive PDF. This format of PDF allows the user to quickly and simply navigate the guide, select live links and grasp terminology in the body of the text.
 

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