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This vital new text offers a holistic view of the factors affecting
the different tiers of sustainability, public health, poverty,
security and production within the food supply chain. With
contributions from international experts in the field, it takes
particular emphasis on growing populations and the deployment of
agricultural land for uses other than food production. There are a
growing number of key issues now facing the food agri-food and food
industries, particularly in the light of growing populations and
the deployment of agricultural land for uses other than food
production e.g. biofuel. Contemporary Issues in the Food Supply
Chain is the first text to provide a holistic overview covering
topics such as: food security, sustainable intensification, obesity
and food poverty, the environmental impact of the food supply
chain, social and political climates and health. The text is
divided into 3 key areas as follows: * The supply chain - problems
and dilemmas including traceability, integrity, the changing
consumer and food definitions. * Sustainable sourcing of food
including food resources and human evolution, CSR, food security
and alternative food production * Case studies and new areas of
research including rural land use; carbon footprint; managing
pathogens; Brexit as an opportunity for nutrition related health in
agricultural policy. A must have text for academics, researchers,
practitioners, policy makers and students in the fields of food
management, agricultural and associated business courses.
This book is about an analysis of agility in the Ghanaian pineapple
supply chain for export. It deals with issues on how managers in
the supply chain might cope with changes which are unpredictable or
uncertain against the performance of its main competitors in the
UK. Using a scale proposed by van der Vorst (2000), the supply
chain bottlenecks were identified. Interviews both in Gahana and in
the UK enabled the authors to calculate agility gap ratios of the
Ghanaian pineapple supply chain based on Oosterhout et al. (2006).
It could be concluded that those involved in the Ghanaian pineapple
supply chain needed to be more agile in the way they adapt to
importers' needs. The Ghanaian supply chain could be considered the
least agile confirming that that country has been losing market
share in recent years. Proposed agility redesign variables and
enablers were then derived for the agility gaps found to embed
agility in to the Ghanaian supply chain.
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