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J.P. Rajakal ; D.K.S. Ng ; R.R. Tan ; V. Andiappan ; Y.K. Wan |A sustainable agro-industrial value chain is essential for sustained food security. This requires optimised planning of operations and new expansions along the value chain. In this work, a fuzzy-based multi-objective approach is developed for pl[...]Article
Deuxième continent le plus peuplé du monde derrière lAsie, mais premier par son taux de croissance démographique, lAfrique est confrontée, de longue date, à dimportantes difficultés pour subvenir aux besoins alimentaires de sa population. Les[...]Article
G.D. Guccione ; E. Pagliarino ; I. Borri ; A. Vaccaro ; P. Borsotto |Italy is the leading European rice producer. The transition to organic farming of rice farms could represent a solution for environmental protection, as well as for their economic sustainability, consumer safety, and as a measure of climate miti[...]Article
This research aims to examine the existence or not of a relationship between governance and pulses food security in Morocco in terms of food availability, accessibility, utilization, and stability and to determine the governance indicators affe[...]Article
M.A. Augustin ; M.B. Cole ; D. Ferguson ; N.J.G. Hazell ; P. Morle |Radical transformation of the food system is required to ensure the health of people and the planet. The implementation of policy change to improve food and nutritional security has been slow. Injection of private and public investment to stimul[...]Article
The essential first steps of addressing the problem of food loss are measuring the loss, identifying where in the food system it occurs, and developing effective policies to mitigate it along the value chain. Food loss has been defined in many w[...]Article
In the region of MSila, a steppe zone and characteristic of a dominant agro-pastoral framework, the local olive sector has certainly grown in terms of area expansion, but the information available indicates that its future in terms of performan[...]Article
Depuis les difficultés dapprovisionnement engendrées par la crise sanitaire, la résilience économique dans la mondialisation est au cur du débat public en France. Le plan de relance met en avant lobjectif de souveraineté économique « non pas [...]Article
Despite broad agreement in policy circles on the need to reduce food loss and waste (FLW), considerable gaps in information still exist. This paper identifies policy-relevant information gaps, summarizes recent research that tries to fill these [...]Article
I. Vazquez-Gonzalez ; M. Do Mar Pérez-Fra ; A.I. Garcia-Arias ; B. Valdês-Paços ; E. López Iglesias |Humans have traditionally sought provisioning services from rural areas, but society is becoming increasingly aware of other services that rural areas provide to human beings, agroecosystem services. At the same time, however, certain dysservice[...]Article
Sustainable configuration of the tunisian olive oil supply chain using a fuzzy TOPSIS-based approach
Agricultural production of olive oil is a sector with high significance. The olive sector is a very important sector for several countries in the world, in particular, for Tunisia. In addition, the impacts of olive oil production and extraction [...]Article
Value chain analysis has been widely used as a diagnostic approach to identify and address complex issues across value chains in an agricultural development context. While comprehensive, the method is primarily qualitative and static in nature, [...]Article
Contributing to the ongoing debate on the future of European agriculture and rural areas, the study states that, in the light of the present historical contingency, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will need to support the reconciliation bet[...]Article
B. Torquati ; L. Cecchini ; C. Paffarini ; M. Chiorri |Following the growing trend towards globalisation of the agrifood system over the last few years, a number of scientific publications with different aims and methodological approaches have addressed the issue of the progressive link loss between[...]Article
This paper examines the rationale for pursuing environmental objectives by reducing food loss and waste (FLW). The main thrust of the literature on this issue is that FLW reduction can make a major contribution to making food systems more sustai[...]Article
N.M. Mohd Nizar ; E. Jahanshiri ; A.S. Tharmandram ; A. Salama ; S.S. Mohd Sinin ; N.J. Abdullah ; H. Zolkepli ; E.M. Wimalasiri ; T.A.S.T. Mohd Suhairi ; H. Hussin ; P.J. Gregory ; S.N. Azam-Ali |Digital agriculture is driven by the interrelated needs to increase crop production, develop sustainable food systems and cope with the global change. Databases exist for several major crops but a barrier to increasing agrobiodiversity is the la[...]Article
Both in the European Union (EU) and worldwide, the resilience of agri-food systems depends on the human ability to balance between socio-economic and ecological trade-offs. Recent ecosystem services literature acknowledges that smallholder farme[...]Article
In Switzerland, there are separated value chains for dairy and cheese products, which differ in terms of industry concentration, value chain governance, and product characteristics. We analyze how milk prices are passed on along these different [...]Article
As countries develop, agriculture's role as domestic employer declines. But the broader agri-food system also expands, and the scope for agriculture-related job creation shifts beyond the farm. Historically, technological revolutions have shaped[...]Article
Beyond the ecosystem benefits of diversification through wheatpea intercropping, this review analyzes the barriers and levers to its adoption and diffusion. The present review shows that structuring the value chain around the products of this i[...]Article
J. Sarkis ; M.J. Cohen ; P. Dewick ; P. Schröder |As members of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production we have as virtually everyone else paid close attention to the COVID-19 pandemic which is one of the most comprehensive and tragic p[...]Article
To meet the challenges of sustainability in agricultural system design, reducing the dependency on synthetic plant protection products has become a core issue. There are currently two major reasons for farmers' decision to reduce their use of sy[...]Article
La datte détient un statut élevé dans le marché des produits agricoles et est lune des plus importantes productions de rente en particulier des petits agriculteurs. Lanalyse de la chaîne de valeur des dattes revêt une importance de premier deg[...]Article
The concept of resilience gained traction in academic, policy, and development discourse in recent years, yet its conceptualization and application at the farm level has received little attention. For instance, recent policy recommendations pres[...]Article
Fisheries are among the sectors hardest-hit by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) crisis due to the sudden decrease in the demand for seafood. This study employs demand-driven and supply-driven input-output models to conduct an economy-wide ass[...]Article
The paper investigates how food safety investment decisions are affected on the one hand by laws and on the other by firms economic and organizational drivers. The paper shares findings from an empirical study that considers investments in HACC[...]Article
The maintenance or even more the enhancement of stuttering networks and supply chains suffering the imperfections of globalisation have been critically stressed by the pandemic. Solutions will require technology, innovation, and political determ[...]Article
The fresh fruit industry is a highly dynamic sector in the food market. Fresh fruit chain actors have to adapt to the changing market environment in order to face upcoming challenges. The objective of this study is to analyze the market sustaina[...]Article
L.A. German ; A.M. Bonanno ; L.C. Foster ; L. Cotula |Sustained interest by the business community in commercial agriculture in the global South has been welcomed for its potential to bring capital into long neglected rural areas, but has also raised concerns over implications for customary land ri[...]Article
The agri-food sector has changed significantly over the years, moving from a simple production system to a more and more industrialized one. For agents/operators involved in this sector, ensuring product quality and environmental externalities h[...]