Agricultural Supply Chain Research Articles

Moving forward: the future of blockchain technology in agriculture

This article examines the application of blockchain technology in agriculture, a promising approach to enhance efficiency and transparency. By reviewing existing literature, conducting a study, and analyzing findings, we aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of blockchain in agriculture. Our discussion offers a comprehensive understanding of how blockchain technology can revolutionize agricultural practices and supply chains, providing a robust system for tracking and verifying transactions, improving efficiency, and fostering trust among stakeholders.

Service quality evaluation of agricultural cold chain logistics supply chain based on k-means clustering algorithm

Service quality evaluation of agricultural cold chain logistics supply chain based on k-means clustering algorithm

Decision-making in the agricultural product supply chain based on blockchain technology

Decision-making in the agricultural product supply chain based on blockchain technology

The supervision game of economically motivated adulteration behavior of fresh agricultural product suppliers

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Economically motivated adulteration (EMA) of fresh agricultural product suppliers is a serious threat to public health. In this paper, considering the deliberate and concealed nature of EMA, the social benefits brought by the effective supervision and the "free riding" behavior of suppliers, we build a three-party regulatory game model composed of local governments, dealers, and suppliers to study how to reduce the EMA behavior of fresh agricultural product suppliers. The results show that (a) Since local governments cannot effectively reduce EMA of suppliers only by increasing the incentives, it is necessary to establish a complete reward and punishment mechanism. (b) The government and dealers can increase the cost of EMA by increasing adulteration penalties and improving detection methods so that reduce suppliers' EMA. (c) Compared with the inspection cost, the local governments' penalties for inspection failures are a decisive factor affecting dealers' inspection methods. When the local governments' penalties are strong, even if the cost of improving inspection is higher, the dealers will actively improve the inspection level. Our study shows that the tripartite coordinated supervision mechanism can effectively curb the EMA behavior of suppliers, thereby ensuring the quality safety of the fresh agricultural product supply chain.</p>

Retracted: Analysis of Agriculture and Food Supply Chain through Blockchain and IoT with Light Weight Cluster Head.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/1296993.].

Extension of Climate Smart Agriculture Technology and its Policy Effects in China

Climate change has a significant impact on agriculture so it is necessary to adapt to climate change to promote agricultural transformation and sustainable development. The key to achieving such a goal is to promote the development of climate smart agriculture (CSA) against the background of climate change. The paper first uses official statistical data to evaluate the effect of climate smart agricultural technology project, and then uses the statistical method of questionnaire survey to further investigate and statistically analyze the implementation effect of climate smart agricultural technology project in the pilot area. Further, semi-structured interview method is employed to conduct more in-depth investigation and analysis on some main topics on the basis of preliminary investigation and statistical analysis. The interviews focus on the environmental and economic effects of project practice, the difficulties of smallholder farmers’ technology extension, and the farmers’ willingness to participate. The study indicates that to promote climate smart agriculture technologies is an effective way to solve agricultural problem in practice under the background of climate change, and can achieve at least three benefits. The first is to reduce production costs, which can be reduced by 10% to 15% in terms of fertilizers and pesticides alone. The second is to improve productivity, and preliminary results show that food production can be increased by more than 5%. Finally, it has carbon sequestration capabilities and can significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, the promotion of climate smart agriculture (CSA) technologies helps to solve the problem of agricultural transformation and sustainable development. To this end, it is necessary to drive the transformation and optimization of regional agricultural ecological environment and production system, and promote the innovation and extension of CSA technology. In addition, some soft conditions (e.g., talent, system and technology, etc.) and hard conditions (e.g., modern agricultural supply chain, agricultural big data and the Internet of Things, etc.), must be created, too.

Novel Double Auction Mechanisms for Agricultural Supply Chain Trading

Novel Double Auction Mechanisms for Agricultural Supply Chain Trading

Analysis on the Effect of Agricultural Supply Chain Finance Development on Rural Revitalization

Agricultural supply chain finance is an important innovative model in the field of rural finance. This paper selects provincial panel data of 30 provinces in Chinese mainland from 2011 to 2020, calculates the rural revitalization index, and studies the impact of the development of agricultural supply chain finance on rural revitalization. The research draws the following conclusions: Firstly, the development of agricultural supply chain finance significantly promotes rural revitalization. Secondly, there is a single threshold effect on the promotion effect of agricultural supply chain finance on rural revitalization: taking the Engel coefficient, urban-rural income gap and urban-rural consumption gap as threshold variables, the lower the Engel coefficient of rural residents and the smaller the income and consumption gap between urban and rural areas, the stronger the promotion effect of agricultural supply chain finance on rural revitalization. Finally, the promotion of agricultural supply chain finance development to rural revitalization is more significant in the samples with higher urbanization rates and higher agricultural supply chain finance levels.

A Dynamic Model for Risk Assessment of Cross-Border Fresh Agricultural Supply Chain

A Dynamic Model for Risk Assessment of Cross-Border Fresh Agricultural Supply Chain

A Novel Scoring Auction for Agricultural Supply Chain Trading

A Novel Scoring Auction for Agricultural Supply Chain Trading

Retracted: The Operation Mode of Agricultural Supply Chain Finance Using Blockchain.

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.1155/2022/3338030.].

Risk of intact forest landscape loss goes beyond global agricultural supply chains

•More than one-third of IFL loss was related to export production for the global market •Global supply chains of forest, energy, and mining products dominated IFL loss •Mainland China, the EU, and the United States were major final consumers of IFL-risk products •The dispersed nature of IFL loss drivers calls for stronger government engagement The continued loss of unfragmented intact forest landscapes (IFLs) despite numerous global conservation initiatives indicates the need for improved knowledge of proximate and underlying drivers. Yet the role of non-agricultural activities in forest degradation and fragmentation has not received adequate attention. We focus on IFL loss caused by various economic activities and investigate the influence of global consumption and trade via the multi-regional input-output model. For IFL loss associated with the 2014 world economy, over 60% was related to final consumption of non-agricultural products. More than one-third of IFL loss was linked to export, primarily from Russia, Canada, and tropical regions to mainland China, the EU, and the United States. Of IFL loss associated with export, 51% and 26% was directly caused by logging and mining or energy extraction, respectively. The dispersed nature of IFL loss drivers and their indirect links to individual final consumers call for stronger government engagement and supply chain interventions. The continued loss of unfragmented intact forest landscapes (IFLs) despite numerous global conservation initiatives indicates the need for improved knowledge of proximate and underlying drivers. Yet the role of non-agricultural activities in forest degradation and fragmentation has not received adequate attention. We focus on IFL loss caused by various economic activities and investigate the influence of global consumption and trade via the multi-regional input-output model. For IFL loss associated with the 2014 world economy, over 60% was related to final consumption of non-agricultural products. More than one-third of IFL loss was linked to export, primarily from Russia, Canada, and tropical regions to mainland China, the EU, and the United States. Of IFL loss associated with export, 51% and 26% was directly caused by logging and mining or energy extraction, respectively. The dispersed nature of IFL loss drivers and their indirect links to individual final consumers call for stronger government engagement and supply chain interventions.

Collaboration in Responsible Agriculture Supply Chain Management: Systematic Literature Review

Collaboration in Responsible Agriculture Supply Chain Management: Systematic Literature Review

Collaboration in responsible agriculture supply chain management: a systematic literature review

This study aims to review the literature related to responsible agriculture supply chain management (RASCM) and collaboration concepts, in order to find the gaps in the existing literature and offering direction for future studies. A total of 82 papers published from 2000 to 2021 were reviewed using preferred reporting item for systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA). This study uses the SCOR model to explain the implementation of RASCM in supply chain phases as well as the EOCD-FAO framework to explain the responsible issue, including health and safety, labour rights, environmental aspect, etc. The result shows that research in RASCM dominated the source phase of the supply chain, which explains the supplier-buyer relationship. Research in other phases needs to be elaborated further. The research in simulating the dynamic behaviour of supply chain members in the collaboration process also needs further elaboration.

Is There Room for Food Sovereignty Considerations in EU Competition Policy? A Theoretical Framework

So far, the notion of food sovereignty has not claimed a place at the table of competition law. Although competition law developments in the last four decades have promoted the exclusive dominance of efficiency considerations, the next few years may bring a turning point through the recognition that in the long term economic efficiency also requires social and environmental sustainability, especially in a sector like agriculture. Although family farming has always been dominant in Europe, recent trends of concentration and consolidation in the agricultural and food supply chain as well as globalisation itself have shaken European agricultural producers who face several competition-related problems. This article aims to shed light on whether the theoretical framework of EU competition law and policy are appropriate for the notion of food sovereignty to join the discourse. In order to do so, the article presents the main tenets of ordoliberalism, the prevailing school of thought in EU competition policy, in particular the findings of those ordoliberal scholars who deal with the issues of agriculture. Moreover, the article aims to theorise sovereignty in food sovereignty, in parallel with bringing it into line with ordoliberalism, in order to explore whether the concept of social market economy, one of the key concepts of ordoliberalism explicitly followed by the EU, and in particular ordoliberal competition policy to be realised within the framework of the social market economy, is suitable to take into account food sovereignty’s core elements at least at a theoretical level. If it is, it may bring to the fore a viewpoint of EU competition policy which ensures appropriate protection for the agricultural sector to overcome the newly emerging anomalies faced by European agricultural producers as a consequence of globalising markets. Keywords: food sovereignty, competition law, competition policy, ordoliberalism, agriculture, United States of America, European Union. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3935/cyelp.18.2022.468 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution − Non-Commercial − No Derivatives 4.0 International License. Suggested citation: MM Csirszki, ‘Is There Room for Food Sovereignty Considerations in EU Competition Policy? A Theoretical Framework’ (2022) 18 CYELP 83.

Banana Supply Chain: A Case Study of Vadodara City of Gujarat

The supply chain begins with acquiring fundamental raw materials and ends with delivering the finished product to the consumer. The growing interest in Agricultural Supply Chain Management (ASCM) can be attributed to two main factors: agricultural industrialization and the uncertainty brought on by differences in product quality and safety. The study objective was to identify different marketing channels of banana in Vadodara city, to estimate the price spread of banana and to identify problems faced by producers and intermediaries. Primary data were collected from 40 farmers, 15 wholesalers and 25 retailers to accomplish these objectives. Secondary data were collected from different private and government publications, review papers, literature, and journals. For the study descriptive type of research design was used. In the research sampling method was non-probability sampling method and sampling technique was convenience sampling technique were used. Channel-IV was the most effective way to reach consumers because it has the shortest route. Channel-I was less effective than the others because its marketing cost was the highest. The study reveals that the existing supply chain has a serious problem of lower prices faced by farmers. A significant problem for wholesalers is the lack of a ripening chamber. The major problem for retailers is that they suffer from higher post-harvest losses due to the lack of storage facilities, forcing them to sell products quickly to maximize profits and minimize losses. After doing certain changes like developing a ripening facility in marketing channel IV company may adopt this channel because its channel has the highest marketing efficiency and more share of producer in consumer rupee. To overcome these problems, there is a need to develop infrastructures, cold storage facilities, set up ripening chambers, processing facilities and use refrigerated vehicles for long-distance transportation, etc.

How Do Logistics Disruptions Affect Rural Households? Evidence from COVID-19 in China

Using a comprehensive survey of rural households during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, we find that logistics disruptions due to the lockdown have resulted in severe economic losses for rural households. Insufficient production inputs and perishable outputs can aggravate the impact of logistics disruptions on losses, while the purchase of agriculture insurance and higher regional GDP can mitigate this effect. We further examine the mechanisms by which logistics disruptions affect rural households, including both sales and production channels in agricultural supply chains. The former includes changes in product prices and reduced sales, while the latter includes changes in input prices and shortages of raw materials, capital, and labor. Of these channels, logistics has the most severe impact on sales. Opening up the logistics of sales channels is the primary policy choice. More storage warehouses and insurance are also important preemptive measures. Building stable and sustainable agricultural supply chains can ensure rural household viability during the pandemic.

Digital Transformation in Food Supply Chains in Central and Eastern Europe

The phenomena of technology and digitalization have developed rapidly most recently, leaving traces in all branches of industry. With the prevalence of Industry 4.0 and with digitalization being on the rise, companies have expanded more and more successfully. Thus, in addition to global supply chains, their own supply chains have also started to develop considerably. The aim of our research is to discover the factors characterizing the digital transformation of companies in the Central and Eastern European region. This article assesses the conditions, key drivers, and barriers of digital transformation and the benefits expected by companies operating in the agricultural and food supply chains. The research is based on a questionnaire survey of over hundred companies. From the answers, models were created to each group of questions by using factor analysis. The results show that the most important motivating factors are quality improvement, market pull, and technological push impacts. The barriers identified are largely consistent with those reported in the contemporary literature. Companies expect benefits mostly from “sales and customer relations”, followed by “logistics and marketing”, and “production and sourcing”.

Food Supply Chain and Blockchain: Bibliometric Analysis

Food is a fundamental phenomenon for mankind. Nowadays, the number of people who approach food more selectively is increasing. They want information about the food they consume be accessible. Details such as the production time and producer of the food, whether it is served at a fair pricing and its content are all matters the consumers feel curious about. With the ability to create immutable data, blockchain technology can respond to consumer demands from the agricultural supply chain. Blockchain provides traceability and anti-counterfeiting solutions in the agricultural supply chain. Due to the fact that blockchain technology is becoming more and more popular in the agricultural supply chain, the level of its academic interest is also increasing. In order to reveal the characteristics of academic interest in the subject, an inquiry was conducted on the topic of food supply chain and blockchain in the Web of Science (WoS) database. The publications obtained at the end of the inquiry were classified under such headings as category, country and publication type. In addition, bibliometric analysis was performed on the publications obtained.

Institutional Reforms and Spatial Efficiency in Agricultural Supply Chains in India

This paper reviews the institutional reforms in agricultural commodity markets in India and examines their implications for spatial efficiency in supply chains of the markets. In order to remove inefficiencies in the traditional supply chain, the Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act was revised, and a Model APMC Act 2003 was introduced with the provisions for establishing private markets/yards, direct purchase centres, farmers markets for direct sale, contract farming and promotion of public–private partnership in the management and development of agricultural markets. Initiative has been taken to set up a National Agricultural Market as an all-India electronic trading portal to develop a ‘common national market’ for agricultural commodities. The institutional reforms in agricultural marketing system since the early 1990s appear to have contributed towards improving the spatial efficiency in rice and wheat markets. The finding of an increase in the extent of spatial integration of markets after the reforms and the tendency of the prices to move towards a common stochastic trend lend support to the idea of setting up a ‘common national market’ for agricultural commodities. Further reforms in the marketing system with better infrastructure facilities would strengthen market integration and improve efficiency in the supply chains. JEL classification: O13, Q13, Q18.