▶ Covers technologies for ripeness, quality, damage and disease assessment and prediction; Grading and classification techniques; postharvest treatments, value-addition, and traceability ▶ Examines processing technologies for agricultural and horticultural products; explores properties of foods and agricultural products ▶ Reviews sensors, sensing technology and process control ▶ Focuses on rese...

nutritional status of historically disadvantaged smallholder food producers and their family members. Food Variety Scores (FVS) and Dietary Diversity Scores (DDS) are some of the indicators of nutritional status. This study sought to evaluate the nutritional status of children of historically disadvantaged agri-business smallholders at Alfred Nzo District. Methods: This study’s purposeful...

This article investigates the competitiveness of agri-food exports of the European Union (EU27) countries on global markets, using the revealed comparative advantage (B) index over the 2000–2011 period. Panel unit root tests, mobility index and the Kaplan-Meier survival rates of the B index are used. The majority of agri-food products in the EU-27 countries show a comparative disadvantage on gl...

esca of grapevine is a serious and injurious disease in grape-growing all over the world, for which no effective control exists. the presented research ,in two separate experiments ,thirteen fungicides (benomyl, thiophanate-methyl thiram, mancozeb, fosetyl-al, metalaxyl mancozeb, caboxin thiram, ortiva, topas, penconazole , tebuconazole ,propiconazole, sodium arsenate, agri-fos ) were evaluated...

RFID is a pervasive technology, which provides appealing opportunities for improving supply chain management and security in the agri-food sector. All over the world, food safety is considered a requirement, and in several countries the traceability of food products is mandatory. Therefore, several studies on traceability management have been conducted both by industrial and academic research c...

RFID is a pervasive technology, which provides appealing opportunities for improving supply chain management and security in the agri-food sector. All over the world, food safety is considered a requirement, and in several countries the traceability of food products is mandatory. Therefore, several studies on traceability management have been conducted both by industrial and academic research c...

1 Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Lethbridge Research Centre, Lethbridge, AB, Canada 2 Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 3 Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada 4 Science and Technology Branch, National Agroclimate Information Service, Agriculture and...

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...