A CJ Global Collaborative R&D on Amino Acids & Eco-Friendly Bio Project for SDGs
Description
Importance of amino acids for animals has grown because difficulties of securing grain for feeds due to recent climate change and growing contagious diseases in livestock industry observed throughout the years. CJ CheilJedang is currently supplying amino acids all over the world and keeps expanding its market especially in Asian countries. Particularly, it is putting tremendous effort on marketing amino acids in China and other Asian countries as this is where the low awareness on importance of low-protein feeds is observed. Aiming to lead on spreading the advanced livestock culture of Europe to Asia, industry players including CJ has successfully contributed to approximately 8~9% decline of nitrogen excretion within the region. Moreover, it is planning to expand its market by promoting optimized formulation of different kinds of amino acids that can eventually decrease 20~30% of nitrogen excretion and prevent the environmental pollution caused by livestock industry.
CJ CheilJedang continues to expand its realm of great influence from developed countries to developing ones in Asia. This global business structure is optimal as it is its vision to proliferate usage of environment-friendly amino acids within various regions. Particularly laying the concrete foundation to collaborate with both public and private sectors within Asia, CJ continues to excavate opportunities to contribute to multinational economic collaboration. Having Korea’s biggest BIO R&D Center as technological hub in Korea, it carries on making its own history of unprecedented bio-research and it will take the role of concrete footing to have technologies transferred in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other major countries. Moreover, CJ CheilJedang will continue to acquire mind-blowing achievements for the protection of environment and food security along with innovation in livestock industry through intensive and diverse researches on all amino acids.
Starting to produce MSG back in 1964, CJ CheilJedang has made its own history of unprecedented bio-research. Based on the microbial fermentation technology that has been evolved and accumulated over the five decades, CJ is now the only global manufacturer that has competencies of commercially producing five major amino acids, ‘L-Lysine,’ ‘L-Threonine,’ ‘L-Tryptophan,’ ‘L-Methionine’ and ‘L-Valine’ for animal nutrition. It also accomplished noticeable scientific achievement by commercially producing ‘L-Methionine’ through microbial fermentation. This production method is eco-friendly bio innovation that also minimizes industrial wastes by reprocessing most byproducts as fertilizer. One of CJ’s core products, ‘L-Lysine’, is now produced in four different continents: Pasuruan Plant in Indonesia, Liaocheng/Shenyang plants in China, Piracicaba plant in Brazil and Fort Dodge plant in the United States. Now it has 30 percent of the global market share with dominant production capacity. It is also noteworthy that ‘L-Lysine’ is taking pivotal role in the aspect of global food security. According to the field studies, one metric ton of ‘L-Lysine HCI’ is proven to save 33 tons of soybean meal. This implicates that the estimated annual usage of ‘L-Lysine’ in the world (2.2 million metric tons in 2015), saves up to 73 million metric tons of soybean meal. This amount is equivalent to 90% of the soybean produced in the Unites States in 2015. Consequently, we may contribute to solving the world’s hunger problem by growing edible grains on the land which was previously utilized for soybean cultivation.Amino acids for animal nutrition also contribute to the prevention of environmental pollution. It is a known and proven fact that soil contaminated at the livestock farms significantly threatens human health. Feeding animals with amino acids means reducing the excessive amount of protein in conventional feeds ultimately decreasing the amount of the livestock’s contaminated nitrogen release. Industry as a whole is planning to supply high-quality amino acids throughout China and Asia, which is expected to create more positive impacts on the environment of Asia in the long run. In 2015, the global annual demand for respective amino acids for animals was estimated to be as follows: 2~2.3 million metric tons for ‘L-Lysine’, 1~1.1 million metric ton for ‘L-Methionine, 40~50 thousand metric tons for ‘L-Threonine’, 20~30 thousand metric tons for ‘L-Tryptophan’. The industry is also in the process of preparing for commercial launch of additional limiting amino acids such as ‘L-Valine’, ‘L-Isoleucine’, ‘L-Leucine’, and ‘L-Arginine’ that hold future potentials.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 2
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
2.1
By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
2.1.1
Prevalence of undernourishment
2.1.2
Prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity in the population, based on the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES)
2.2
By 2030, end all forms of malnutrition, including achieving, by 2025, the internationally agreed targets on stunting and wasting in children under 5 years of age, and address the nutritional needs of adolescent girls, pregnant and lactating women and older persons
2.2.1
Prevalence of stunting (height for age <-2 standard deviation from the median of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age
2.2.2
Prevalence of malnutrition (weight for height >+2 or <-2 standard deviation from the median of the WHO Child Growth Standards) among children under 5 years of age, by type (wasting and overweight)
2.2.3
Prevalence of anaemia in women aged 15 to 49 years, by pregnancy status (percentage)
2.3
2.3.1
Volume of production per labour unit by classes of farming/pastoral/forestry enterprise size
2.3.2
Average income of small-scale food producers, by sex and indigenous status
2.4
By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
2.4.1
Proportion of agricultural area under productive and sustainable agriculture
2.5
By 2020, maintain the genetic diversity of seeds, cultivated plants and farmed and domesticated animals and their related wild species, including through soundly managed and diversified seed and plant banks at the national, regional and international levels, and promote access to and fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, as internationally agreed
2.5.1
Number of (a) plant and (b) animal genetic resources for food and agriculture secured in either medium- or long-term conservation facilities
2.5.2
Proportion of local breeds classified as being at risk of extinction
2.a
2.a.1
The agriculture orientation index for government expenditures
2.a.2
Total official flows (official development assistance plus other official flows) to the agriculture sector
2.b
Correct and prevent trade restrictions and distortions in world agricultural markets, including through the parallel elimination of all forms of agricultural export subsidies and all export measures with equivalent effect, in accordance with the mandate of the Doha Development Round
2.b.1
Agricultural export subsidies
2.c
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
2.c.1
Indicator of food price anomalies
Goal 17
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
17.1
Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection
17.1.1
17.1.2
17.2
Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries
17.2.1
17.3
Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.1
Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources
17.3.2
17.4
Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress
17.4.1
17.5
Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries
17.5.1
Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries
17.6
Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism
17.6.1
Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed
17.7
Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed
17.7.1
Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies
17.8
Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology
17.8.1
17.9
Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation
17.9.1
Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries
17.10
Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda
17.10.1
17.11
Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020
17.11.1
Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports
17.12
Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access
17.12.1
Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States
17.13
Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence
17.13.1
17.14
Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development
17.14.1
17.15
Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development
17.15.1
17.16
Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries
17.16.1
Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
17.17
Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships
17.17.1
Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure
17.18
By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts
17.18.1
Statistical capacity indicators
17.18.2
17.18.3
Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding
17.19
By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries
17.19.1
17.19.2
Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration
SDG 14 targets covered
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Partnership Progress
| Title | Progress Status | Submitted |
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| Partnership Progress 2017-05-01 | On track | |
| Partnership Progress 2016-05-02 | On track |
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Jung Hoon Kim, Representative of Korean Association for Supporting the SDGs for the UN