Advances in fingerprint and rapid methods for improved traceability in agri-food supply chains

Agri-food supply and value chain markets have become increasingly complex due to the changes in consumers demands, the development of complex food standards associated with food safety and quality, advances in technology (e.g. big data, machine learning), and changes in the food industry structure. However, recent issues related to food authenticity, adulteration, fraud, mislabelling, traceability and provenance have added a new dimension to consumers’ concerns, and food industry and regulatory bodies worldwide. The incorporation of sensing technologies combined with data analytics, are determining a paradigm shift in the way food ingredients and foods are both evaluated and monitored. This chapter discusses the utilisation of data analytics and sensing technologies to address issues related with food authenticity, adulteration, fraud, traceability and provenance in the food supply and value chains. In particular, this chapter will focus on the use of rapid analytical methods based in vibrational spectroscopy in combination with data analytics.

Download Full-text

Blockchain for Agri-Food Supply Chain and Logistics Management

10.4018/978-1-7998-8493-4.ch006 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 127-150

Author(s):

Pinki Saini ◽

Unaiza Iqbal ◽

Mazia Ahmed ◽

Devinder Kaur

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Value Chain ◽

Food Supply ◽

Food Industry ◽

Food Supply Chain ◽

Blockchain Technology ◽

Agricultural Produce ◽

Quality Certification ◽

The Cost ◽

Food Safety And Quality

Today, the globalization of the supply chain in the food industry has surged remarkably; hence, food safety and quality certification have become critical. Blockchain is recognized as a promising technology in the agri-foods industry where it can act as a systematic and robust mechanism for increasing the food traceability and provide a transparent and efficient way to assure quality, safety, and sustainability of agri-foods. By lowering the cost and increasing value, this digital technology has the potential to increase profitability of agricultural produce along the value chain. This chapter aims to investigate the potential utilization of blockchain technology in the agri-food industry, where it can be used to address issues of trust and transparency and to facilitate sharing of information sharing among stakeholders. The technology is still in a preliminary stage; thus, this chapter is written to examine its implication in the agri-food supply chain, existing initiatives, challenges, and potential.

Download Full-text

Big Data Analytics for Climate-Resilient Food Supply Chains: Opportunities and Way Forward

10.1007/978-981-16-5847-1_9 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 181-192

Author(s):

Navin Kumar C. Twarakavi ◽

Kamal Das ◽

Mohamed Akram Zaytar ◽

Fred Otieno ◽

Jitendra Singh ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Food Supply ◽

Data Analytics ◽

Big Data Analytics ◽

Food Supply Chains

Download Full-text

Mapping Sustainable Tomato Supply Chain in Greece: A Framework for Research

Foods ◽

10.3390/foods9050539 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 539 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Foivos Anastasiadis ◽

Ioanna Apostolidou ◽

Anastasios Michailidis

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Value Chain ◽

Food Supply ◽

Future Research ◽

Food Sector ◽

Sustainable Food ◽

Research Framework ◽

Food Supply Chains ◽

Chain Maps ◽

Flow Of Information

Sustainable food supply chains are complex systems involving several stakeholders, processes, flow of goods/materials and information. The value generated in combination with the contradictory agendas among actors makes any groundwork for future research a challenging endeavor. Hence, an end-to-end mapping of the food supply chain under examination is a vital prerequisite for the design of a comprehensive research framework. This study exemplified such a mapping approach in the Greek sustainable tomato supply chain, providing significant insights for an impactful research agenda. Data were obtained from secondary sectoral sources and open interviews with key players across the supply chain—covering all its main stages, i.e., production, packaging, storing, transportation, wholesaling, and retailing. The findings are summarized in three supply chain maps that illustrate the areas concerning sustainability, value chain and stakeholders. These maps synthesize a bigger picture of the supply chain that reveals the complicated interactions among its actors, the hidden bottlenecks in the flow of information and the areas that need deeper exploration. Its fundamental implication is the design of a targeted research framework, underlying the main priorities of the Greek tomato supply chain and eventually the Greek agri-food sector.

Download Full-text

Empirical “first-filter” test for the existence of buyer power in the Finnish food supply chain

Agricultural and Food Science ◽

10.23986/afsci.53275 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jyrki Niemi ◽

Xing Liu

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Food Supply ◽

Food Industry ◽

Food Supply Chain ◽

Food Supply Chains ◽

Highly Sensitive ◽

Competitive Behaviour ◽

Filter Test ◽

Buyer Power ◽

Oligopsony Power

Buyer power and competition policy in food supply chains has emerged as an important economic issue and a highly sensitive item on the policy agenda around the world. In Finland, the increasing concentration of the distribution sector and processing industry has raised concern over the existence and gradual growth of buyer power in these sectors. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible existence of buyer power in the Finnish food supply chain. More specifically, we follow an approach used by Lloyd et al. (2009) to measure oligopsony power among the Finnish food industry and retailers against farmers. The results suggest that the spread between producer and retailer prices in Finland is not consistent with perfectly competitive behaviour, and might thus be caused, at least as a candidate amongst other factors, by the existence of oligopsony power in the Finnish food supply chain.

Download Full-text

Utilization of Internet of Things on Food Supply Chains in Food Industry

International Journal of Informatics, Information System and Computer Engineering (INJIISCOM) ◽

10.34010/injiiscom.v2i1.5457 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 103-112

Author(s):

Hanhan Maulana ◽

◽

Selvia Lorena Br Ginting ◽

Pramanda Aryan ◽

Muhamad Restu Fadillah ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Internet Of Things ◽

Food Supply ◽

Food Industry ◽

The Internet ◽

Food Supply Chain ◽

Chain Management ◽

Food Supply Chains ◽

The Internet Of Things

This study aims to analyze the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) in supporting the management of food supply chains (FSCs) in the food industry. This research used qualitative research methods. The results obtained from this study are increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the existing food supply chain in the food industry by applying the IoT concept to food supply chain management. These results can be obtained because the IoT concept is supported by various systems and technologies that can be implemented and developed so that IoT can help identify and deal with existing problems more quickly while being able to assist in the decision-making process with information obtained through IoT technology so that it will support development food supply chain management in the food industry. This study was conducted to see how much influence the internet of things (IoT) has on food supply chain management in the food industry.

Download Full-text

Third-party certification, food standards and quality assurance in supply chains

Journal on Chain and Network Science ◽

10.3920/jcns2009.x164 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 83-88 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Diogo Souza Monteiro ◽

Sven Anders

Keyword(s):

Supply Chains ◽

Food Supply ◽

Third Party ◽

Food Supply Chains ◽

Contractual Arrangements ◽

Environmental Attributes ◽

Credence Attributes ◽

Food Standards ◽

Food Quality And Safety

This paper develops a theoretical framework to address and discuss issues of certifier effort, firm size and cost differences in the provision of credible third-party certification services in vertical food supply chains. The emergence of private and voluntary food standards have opened a fast growing market for the provision of independent third-party certification services for a range of credence attributes from origin, through food quality and safety to social and environmental attributes. This study argues that the quality of certification may be affected by the number of heterogeneous standards a certifier is accredited to verify. Moreover, results suggest that the quality of more complex and costly testing protocols and standards resulting in overall higher certification cost may be better served by smaller certification bodies that on average exert higher effort levels. This finding seems of particular relevance to food chain management given the growing proliferation of highly specialized private standards and contractual arrangements in international food supply.

Download Full-text

Retail Potential for Upcycled Foods: Evidence from New Zealand

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13052624 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (5) ◽

pp. 2624

Author(s):

Francesca Goodman-Smith ◽

Siddharth Bhatt ◽

Robyn Moore ◽

Miranda Mirosa ◽

Hongjun Ye ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

New Zealand ◽

Food Waste ◽

Food Supply ◽

Food Industry ◽

Food Products ◽

Food Supply Chain ◽

Food Ingredients ◽

Willingness To Buy ◽

Promising Solution

Food waste is a problem that manifests throughout the food supply chain. A promising solution that can mitigate the food waste problem across various stages of the food supply chain is upcycling food ingredients that would otherwise be wasted by converting them into new upcycled food products. This research explores perception of upcycled foods from a panel of 1001 frequent shoppers at a large grocery retailer in New Zealand. Findings from this research uncover several hitherto unexamined aspects of consumers’ evaluations of upcycled foods. These include consumers’ indications about shelf placements of upcycled foods, willingness to buy upcycled foods for people or pets other than themselves, and consumers’ preferences about information pertaining to these foods. This research advances our understanding of how consumers perceive upcycled foods and provides actionable insights to practitioners in the food industry.

Download Full-text

Food Traceability: A Consumer-Centric Supply Chain Approach on Sustainable Tomato

Foods ◽

10.3390/foods10030543 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 543

Author(s):

Foivos Anastasiadis ◽

Ioanna Apostolidou ◽

Anastasios Michailidis

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Food Supply ◽

Food Industry ◽

Methodological Approach ◽

Consumer Involvement ◽

Food Supply Chains ◽

Traceability System ◽

Technological Advances ◽

High Level

Technological advances result in new traceability configurations that, however, cannot always secure transparency and food safety. Even in cases where a system guarantees transparency, the actual consumer involvement and a real consumer-based perspective cannot always be ensured. The importance of such consumer centricity is vital, since it is strongly associated with effective supply chains that properly fulfil their end-users’ needs and requests. Thus, the objective of this paper was to explore the level of consumer centricity in food supply chains under a traceability system. The methodological approach employed a framework of two studies validating subsequently a similar set of variables, using initially consumers data and then supply chain actors data. The supply chain of sustainable tomato was selected to design the studies. The level of agreement between datasets suggested the level of the supply chain consumer centricity. Findings showed health, trust, quality, nutrition, and safety-related values to be significant for the consumers towards accepting a traceability system. The supply chain actors also accepted a traceability system based on the fact that their customers’ needs rely on the exact same beliefs, indicating a high level of consumer centricity. The current work underlines the magnitude of consumer centricity in food supply chains and provides an easy and straightforward framework for its exploration. Key implications suggest the design of more effective supply chain and consumer-based strategies for the food industry. Policymakers could also adopt the concept of consumer centricity to further improve the food industry.

Download Full-text

The Study of the Intersection Between Food Fraud/Adulteration and Authenticity

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis ◽

10.11118/actaun201866051275 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 66 (5) ◽

pp. 1275-1286 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Aleksandra Kowalska

Keyword(s):

Critical Analysis ◽

Food Industry ◽

Business Majors ◽

Food Authenticity ◽

Food Fraud ◽

Food Supply Chains ◽

Economics Faculty ◽

Original Contribution ◽

Legislative Framework ◽

Polish Economy

The first purpose of this paper is to collate and conceptualize two problems: food fraud/adulteration and food authenticity. The second aim is to investigate students’ understanding of these concepts and their implications for consumers and producers (processors and/or farmers) to include food fraud course in university programme for business majors. In the theoretical part of the paper, the cognitive‑critical analysis of the world’s literature was applied; the analysis was enriched with instantiations coming from Polish economy, market issues and legislative framework. In the empirical (applicable) part, questionnaire survey was conducted among students of Economics Faculty at Polish university in 2016. Since food supply chains are more and more vulnerable to fraud, the issue has been getting significance rapidly. Both food fraud/adulteration and food authenticity may be treated in terms of instruments that entrepreneurs have in their hands while trying to succeed. The point is that consumers should be aware of these problems, appropriate educational program including university syllabus would help to raise this awareness. The surveyed students’ understanding of the phenomenon is quite appropriate. The proposition is to conduct a social campaign covering researched issues. Knowledgeable consumers impose additional pressure on food industry to become more disciplined. The original contribution of this paper to theory is showing the intersection between food fraud / adulteration and authenticity concepts and recognising Polish students’ perception of these issues.

Download Full-text