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Showing 1 to 20 of 286 for “"food supply"”.
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Complex Adaptive Food Supply Systems
The long-term sustainability of food supply chains (FSCs) is critical to human and environmental health. While the modern industrial FSC is capable of the production and global distribution of enormous quantities of food, it also faces serious long-term environmental, social, and economic …
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The transportation facilities for Boston's food supply
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Business and Engineering Administration, 1923.
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Impact of Technological Advancements on Food Supply Chains
… and sustainability imperatives, the beef supply chain contends with multifaceted obstacles. This research explores the potential of RPA to address sustainability concerns in this sector. With a focus on identifying risks to RPA adoption and its implications for sustainability, the study …
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Empirical applications of price transmission in international agri-food supply chains
… (vertical price transmission along the EU food supply chain and spatial price transmission between main producing countries). Essay 1 (discussed in Chapter 3) investigates the effects of the liberalization changes initiated with the 2003 CAP Reform and further progressed with the 2008 CAP …
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Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chains: Consumer Demand and Company Sourcing Practices
Agri-food supply chains link food production to processing, trading, distribution, and consumption across the globe. However, food production can have severe environmental and social impacts. Rising societal awareness of issues regarding supply chain sustainability both promises opportunities for …
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A Systemic Approach for Risk and Resilience Assessment of Food Supply Chains
The food supply chain system is a network of activities and processes involved in producing, distributing, and delivering food products from their sources to consumers. The internal operations and the external environment in which the system functions create a dynamic that can lead to disturbances …
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A data-driven approach to mitigate risk in global food supply chains
Economically motivated adulteration of imported food poses a serious threat to public health, and has contributed to several poisoning incidents in the past few years in the U.S. [1]. Prevention is achieved by sampling food shipments coming to the U.S. However, the sampling resources are limited: …
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Stable Isotope Variability in the American Food Supply: Implications for Dietary Reconstruction Applications
… variability in the isotopic composition of foods. No prior studies have evaluated the existing food carbon and nitrogen stable isotope data in an effort to determine broad-scale patterns and characterize the degree of variability of stable isotopes within the American diet. The purpose of …
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Food Supply Early in the Plant Growing Season: Influences from Elk Abundance and Precipitation
… for plant growth differ. I measured the entire food supply for a non-migratory population of elk (Cervus elaphus) in a temperate rainforest over a 15-year period when population abundance and total precipitation varied. The food supply was a 50-hectare meadow complex that was divided into 7 …
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An empirical study on the building blocks of resilience in British food supply chains
Food is, of course, essential to the continuation of human life, and today’s food supply networks or as they are also known “farm to fork” are becoming more diverse and dynamic. It is an undeniable fact that the changing climate has resulted in more extreme weather conditions than before. …
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Problems and response actions of the food supply chain against COVID-19: a SLR
El objetivo de este estudio fue mostrar lo provocado por el COVID-19 en todas las etapas de la cadena de suministro de alimentos, cuyos actores son: productores, procesadores, distribuidores, retailers y consumidores. Asimismo, se buscó identificar cuáles fueron los principales problemas y las …
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Food supply chain management and contracting: improving conditions for small-scale paprika farmers in central Malawi
… consumers’ rising demand for quality and diverse foods. Trade liberalisation and modernisation of production, processing and distribution systems enable agro-food companies to quickly access raw materials from farmers. Thus, efficient supply chains have a key role to play in the global marketing …
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'A piecemeal way to save the world': Investigating social sustainability in the UK's conventional food supply
… in knowledge of sustainability in relation to food – namely how the social ‘pillar’ is being interpreted and acted on, and by whom, in the UK’s conventional food supply. Sustainability is widely seen to have three pillars (environmental, economic and social), with the latter the least well …
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Perishable Food Waste Reduction Through Technological Implementation at the Retail Level of the Food Supply Chain
<p>Food waste has become a disaster of global proportion that the world can no longer turn a blind eye to. This paper aims to reduce food waste at the retail level of the food supply chain by recommending and quantifying the effects of current technology that can be implemented in traditional …
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Effect of a supplemental food supply on the reproductive attainment of the gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis)
The effect of a supplemental food supply on the reproductive attainment of the gray squirrel was investigated in the squirrel populations of two food supplemented Experimental and two Control woodlots near the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, from …
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Effects of In-Kind transfers on female labor supply: evidence from the food supply program comedores comunitarios
En la literatura se argumenta que las transferencias en especie podrían tener efectos positivos sobre la oferta laboral. En este trabajo utilizamos el programa de nutrición de la ciudad de Bogotá, Comedores Comunitarios, para esclarecer dicho punto. El programa otorga un almuerzo diario a las …
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The Role of Entrepreneurship and Human Resources in Supporting Sustainability-Oriented Innovations in Food Supply Chain Management
… sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) in supply chain (SC) of food retailers in Jordan, in order to provide a novel conceptual framework. Attempting to overcome challenges generated from unsustainable business performance such as seeking to reduce harmful environmental and social …
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