Article
Economics
Rebecca Cleary, Jean-Paul Chavas
Summary: Large, low-cost entrants like Wal-Mart Supercenters can disrupt incumbent supermarkets by influencing the pricing of private labels, while having a minimal impact on the pricing of manufacturer brands. They are able to attract a different type of consumer from traditional supermarkets, leaving incumbents to cater to a less price-sensitive and more brand-differentiated consumer base.
EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS
(2022)
Article
Geography
Timothy F. LeDoux, Igor Vojnovic
Summary: This paper examines the historical evolution of uneven neighborhood food environments in tri-County Detroit, Michigan from 1970 to 2010, highlighting how economic conditions, business decisions, and underlying inequities interacted to create restricted food access in Black neighborhoods and raise questions about relevant policies.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Victoria Jenneson, Graham P. Clarke, Darren C. Greenwood, Becky Shute, Bethan Tempest, Tim Rains, Michelle A. Morris
Summary: This study examines fruit and vegetable purchasing at the neighborhood level in Leeds, England using transaction records of supermarket loyalty card holders. The results show spatial clustering of fruit and vegetable purchasing, with areas purchasing fewer portions being associated with younger residents, lower affluence, and lower spending per month with the retailer.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Misagh Rahbari, Alireza Arshadi Khamseh, Mohammad Mohammadi
Summary: Pandemic crises like COVID-19 have significantly affected companies in the Agri-food industry, with some overcoming the crisis through effective management while others suffering heavy financial losses due to lacking strategic planning. Governments have put pressure on these companies to ensure food security during the pandemic. This study aims to develop a model of the canned food supply chain under uncertain conditions and analyze it strategically during COVID-19 using robust optimization. The results show that expanding canned food exports to neighboring countries is the best strategy, reducing supply chain costs by 8.03% and increasing employed human resources by 3.65%.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Maria Rocha Vieira, Sara Simoes, Cecilio Carrera-Sanchez, Anabela Raymundo
Summary: In recent years, there has been a growing demand for clean label food, which consists of shorter and simpler ingredient lists that contain familiar and natural ingredients. This study aimed to develop a vegan clean label mayonnaise by replacing additives with fruit flour obtained from fruit with reduced commercial value. The incorporation of fruit flour improved the structure and antioxidant activity of the mayonnaise, with nectarine flour showing the most promising results in terms of texture and antioxidant capacity.
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Mahima Gupta, Harpreet Kaur, Surya Prakash Singh
Summary: The complexity of agri-food supply chains leads to food loss and waste, and to address this issue, an FMOLP model is proposed to minimize food loss and enhance the resilience of the food supply chain. Through experimental analysis and case simulation, insights are provided on the trade-off between cost, food loss, and resilience.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Paola Paoloni, Giuseppe Modaffari, Niccolo Paoloni, Federica Ricci
Summary: Recent socioeconomic events, especially the Covid-19 pandemic, have prompted farms to rethink their traditional production methods. Innovation, new technologies, and building relationships are key for farms to stay competitive and sustainable. This study explores how structural and relational capital can contribute to the sustainability and resilience of farms during their life cycles and emergency situations like the coronavirus outbreak. The findings indicate that technology innovation has improved internal processes and reduced costs for the farm, while the proactive and reactive roles of structural and relational capital have helped the farm to increase its efficiency and survive the emergency.
BRITISH FOOD JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Economics & Policy
Stefanella Stranieri, Luigi Orsi, Ivan De Noni, Alessandro Olper
Summary: This study fills the research gap on the relationship between the diffusion of geographical indications (GIs) and innovation in the agri-food sector. Using a Neo-Schumpeterian model, we find that the diffusion of GIs affects innovative activities, depending on the distance from the technological frontier.
Review
Engineering, Chemical
Sofia Plakantonaki, Ioannis Roussis, Dimitrios Bilalis, Georgios Priniotakis
Summary: The agri-food industry generates plant-based food waste, offering a research opportunity to minimize and manage these wastes in support of zero waste and circular economies. By valorizing these wastes through downstream processes, plant-based food wastes can be converted into secondary raw materials. These wastes are recognized as sources of bioactive chemicals, including dietary fibers that can be used as food additives or functional food ingredients, and can also be utilized in nonfood industries such as textiles, reducing environmental impact and increasing market acceptance.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Lisa Mattsson, Helen Williams
Summary: This article highlights the importance of frontline employees in reducing food waste at the grocery retail level. Through interviews and observations with employees, as well as quantitative analysis of fruit and vegetable waste data, the study identifies four main themes of causes and measures: policy, practice, people, and product. The findings suggest that generic descriptions of causes are insufficient for planning reduction measures and provide a foundation for implementing sustainable food supply chain strategies in the grocery retail sector.
Article
Business
Fei Ye, Siyu Liu, Yina Li, Yuanzhu Zhan, Zigong Cai, Ajay Kumar
Summary: This article explores the adoption of blockchain technology in agri-food supply chains, and investigates how two competing chains can benefit from its adoption under certain conditions, as well as how governments can choose optimal subsidy schemes to promote its adoption. The findings reveal that key parameters such as competitive intensity, market size growth rate, investment cost, and planting cost significantly influence the Nash equilibrium outcome of BT adoption strategies.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Maria Gallego-Garcia, Ana Susmozas, Antonio D. Moreno, Maria Jose Negro
Summary: Intensive horticultural systems generate organic waste that can be used for bioenergy and bioproducts production. This study evaluated the microbial oil production from discarded pepper and assessed the techno-economic feasibility of a proposed microbial oil plant.
FERMENTATION-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Fariba Goodarzian, Vikas Kumar, Peiman Ghasemi
Summary: This paper proposes a mathematical model for the citrus fruit supply chain network, considering CO2 emissions, water coefficient, and time window. Multiple approaches are used to solve the multi-objective model, and a hybrid meta-heuristic algorithm is developed.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Sophia Riemer, Lina Pinero Walkinshaw, Alyssa Auvinen, Jessica Marcinkevage, Mary Daniel, Jessica C. Jones-Smith
Summary: Complete Eats Rx is an important resource for families, improving food security, diet quality, and the ability to purchase healthy foods for participants. Primary barriers to food security and fruit and vegetable consumption include limited geographic accessibility and high cost, exacerbated by other financial constraints. The acceptability of the program is hindered by having only one supermarket chain as the acceptor of the incentive.
JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sara Vignati, Alessio Tugnolo, Valentina Giovenzana, Alessia Pampuri, Andrea Casson, Riccardo Guidetti, Roberto Beghi
Summary: Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has been extensively studied and applied in nondestructive monitoring systems for fruit and vegetable supply chains. This review focuses on the technical aspects and data analysis approaches of HSI in fresh-cut products, exploring different applications and potential scale-up for process monitoring. Additionally, it discusses the development of cost-effective and hand-held HSI devices for process analytical technologies and the potential of proximal sensing approach based on HSI sensor networks in various fields.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)