Knowledge network/mobilisation and lean performance have been most often discussed in an isolated manner in generic context in literature. Few studies currently exist that focus on their relationship in supply chain management. This study investigates the relationships between knowledge network types/ mobilisation approaches and successful lean performance outcome using fuzzy-set qualitative co...

Future contracts in commodity market with limited maturities are primarily used for hedging commodity price-fluctuation risks or for taking advantage of price movements, rather than for the buying or selling of the actual cash commodity. This paper is an effort to analyze the market efficiency of the Indian commodity market and volatility spillover effects between the spot and future market wit...

Abstract/Résumé : The supply planning of agricultural products and in particular perishable products is a critical issue in the supply chain management field due to high safety and quality risks associated with the delays in the products delivery. This work is concerned with the planning of a real agri-food supply chain for poultry products. More precisely the problem is to redesign the existin...

this paper presents the results obtained from the life cycle assessment (lca) of the productionof sicilian artichokes (cynara scolymus) with the aim of reducing impacts, interpreting the results, suggesting possible improvements and enriching the sustainability knowledge already existing in the agro food field. artichokes represent one of the excellent italian agricultural products even if stil...

Agri-environmental programs, such as the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, provide payments to livestock and crop producers to generate broadly defined environmental benefits and to help them comply with federal water quality regulations, such as those that require manure nutrients generated on large animal feeding operations to be spread on cropland at no greater than agronomic rates. ...

The challenge for any trade agreement is to be adaptable enough to enable countries to address legitimate non-trade concerns (NTC) while being restrictive enough to limit harm to other countries and to assist the creation of free international markets. In this paper, we focus on how environmental NTC have been addressed in agricultural policy in the USA and the European Union (EU) and the resul...

While budgets for agri-environmental policy in OECD countries are rapidly increasing with current policy reforms, information about the locally varying demands for policies implemented at various levels of government remains scarce. In this study, a median voter framework is used to analyse the demand for landscape management services based on the expenditures of sub-federal governments for two...

Over the last decade, circular economy (CE) has attracted attention due to current unsustainable model of production and consumption, which involves an increased resource use depletion. Agri-food is one key sectors where action must be taken ensure transition a more sustainable development in line with principles. This study aims evaluate potential implementing pitahaya agri-food chain Ecuador....

The relative importance the EU has given to the positive multifunctional benefits of agriculture in comparison with its negative environmental effects is likely to become a politically controversial issue in multilateral trade negotiations. A key to the resolution of the potential trade conflicts which may result from this debate would be the finding of criteria by which the genuineness and the...

Abstract These last years, the development of AI robots for agriculture, livestock farming and food processing industries is rapidly increasing. are expected to help produce deliver more efficiently a growing human population, but they also raise societal ethical questions. As type questions raised by these in society have been rarely empirically explored, we engaged four case studies focussing...