Contemporary problems in the agri-food chain

Evaluation on The Risk of Chinese Agri-Food Supply Chain

There is a huge potential risk on agri-food supply chain due to the specific complex nature of agricultural products. Agri-food supply chain has such character as structural complexity, market uncertainty, market power imbalance and vulnerability. Agri-food supply chain risks mainly represent to technical risks, information risks, organizational management risks and security risks. Based on end...

Technological Implications of Supply Chain Practices in Agri-Food Sector: A Review

Today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. While going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the United States, produce in India and trade in Europe...

Evaluation on Service Ability of Agri-Food Supply Chain

This study aims to develop a comprehensive framework to evaluate the service ability of agri-food supply chain based on Chinese food industry. We develop an evaluation index system with five aspects resepectively, transportation, wareshousing & storage, customer response, distribution and information level. With analytic hierarchy process to identify the weight of each index, we apply fuzzy com...

Conceptualization of the dynamics and synergistic partnership between the agri-food production chain and public health veterinarians

Agroecology and Alternative Agri-Food Movements in the United States: Toward a Sustainable Agri-Food System

The concept of agroecology in the United States is born out of a dialectical process of co-production of knowledge whereby the science of agroecology has shaped and been shaped by alternative agri-food movements, policy, and local practice. This article examines the relationship between agroecology and alternative agri-food movements and identifies opportunities for greater engagement. The arti...