Analysis of supplier selection policies for regional food systems using multi-agent simulation

....... ...................................................................................................... 8 Introduction........... ............................................................................................ 9 Literature Review................................................................................................. 14 Methodology ........................................................................................................ 34 Simulation Results and Analysis ......................................................................... 57 Conclusion.... ...................................................................................................... 75 References... ........................................................................................................ 79 CHAPTER 3 GENERAL CONCLUSIONS ...................................................... 86 General Discussion .............................................................................................. 86 Recommendation for Future Work ...................................................................... 87 Limitations of the Study....................................................................................... 88 APPENDIX A. SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS DATA .............................................. 90 APPENDIX B. USERFORM FOR IOWA FOOD CO-OP .................................. 98