scholarly journals Redefining the Supply Chain Model on the Milicz Carp Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2934
Author(s):  
Magdalena Raftowicz ◽  
Magdalena Kalisiak-Mędelska ◽  
Mirosław Struś
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Production Capacity ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Quality Product ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Sales Model

The growing demand for cheap food is a key factor in maintaining long supply chains. Increasing the distance between the producer and the consumer results not only in certain problems in maintaining profitability by small, local producers, but also in a threat to food safety. One way to counteract these adverse effects is to sell food through short supply chains. They shape the market in the direction of maintaining care for the sustainable development of all food production, but above all, maintaining and strengthening the production capacity ensuring the transparency of the high-quality food production process from an identifiable source of origin. The purpose of this article is to indicate the conditions on the side of both carp producers and consumers, conducive to building short supply chains, and determine whether they can be an effective alternative sales model in Polish conditions. The article focuses on the possibilities of developing short supply chains on the carp market in the Barycz Valley, concentrating the largest area of carp ponds in Europe. The research (surveys) included the five largest fishing farms and, on the recipient side, individual consumers and restaurants located in the Barycz Valley and Wrocław, and agritourism facilities in the researched area. The obtained results confirmed that short supply chains in the area of Polish aquaculture are characterized by high implementation potential. However, it is necessary to modify the current sales model so that the producers’ expectations regarding the sales volume and the obtained price are balanced with the expectations of consumers articulating the will to buy fish at a given time, place, and price. This, in turn, will ensure the high economic efficiency of fishing farms, and consumers will have access to a high-quality product.

Desperately seeking happy chickens: producer dynamics and consumer politics in quality agricultural supply chains

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Carter
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Peer Review ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Convention Theory

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to understand why the quality markets are expanding in some areas of food production, while struggling in others. Across agricultural markets in advanced industrialized economies, there are movements toward quality production and consumption. The author argues that the quality turn in beer, coffee, wine and other transformed artisanal food production are fundamentally different from the quality movements in primary food products. The heart of that difference lies in the nature of the supply chain advantages of transformed versus primary agricultural products.Design/methodology/approachThe author applies convention theory to explain the dynamics within transformed agricultural quality markets. In these producer-dominant markets, networks of branded producers shape consumer notions of product quality, creating competitive quality feedback loops. The author contrasts this with the consumer-dominant markets for perishable foods such as produce, eggs, dairy and meat. Here, politically constructed short supply chains play a central role in building quality food systems.FindingsThe emergence of quality in primary food products is linked to the strength of local political organization, and consumers have a greater role in shaping quality in these markets.Originality/valueQuality beer, coffee, wine and other transformed products can emerge without active political intervention, whereas quality markets for perishable foods are the outcome of political action.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-01-2020-0001.

Reasons for Adapting Information Connectivity in the Short Supply Chains of Local Food Producers

2017 ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Engelseth
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Customer Value ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Food Network ◽  
Mutual Adaptation ◽  
Local Food Production

Local food production is becoming increasingly popular in developed post-modern economies. Attention has been directed to developing such forms of food supply by adapting information connectivity. A case study of a local food network in Norway indicates that local food supply paradoxically attempts to mimic the dominant industrialised modes of food production. It is suggested that the fact that local food supply is “personal” and associated with close proximity makes it more closely resemble service supply chains. Applying contingency theory, a conceptual model is developed that indicates how the local food supply must take into consideration the degree to which customer value is associated with tailoring food supply. The high need for tailored local food production implies that information connectivity should support mutual adaptation while, in cases of less need for tailoring information, connectivity should seek automation. Local food production is always a hybrid of these approaches.

Hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.): Sustainability and challenges for the food sector

2020 ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Salvatore Ciano ◽  
Séverine Goscinny ◽  
Giuliana Vinci
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Cannabis Sativa ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Development Goals

According to the Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030), a key factor to ensure a better and more sustainable future for all is the promotion of different food production systems. Nowadays, agriculture is one of the most impactful sec-tors for the environmental pollution. Moreover, diet choices have direct influence on our ecological footprint. A literature review is presented with a focus on the challenges of hemp cultivation sustainability, innovations and market of hemp food products.

scholarly journals Resource Potential as a Key Factor of Ukrainian Mining Enterprises Competitive Position

2021 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 01017
Author(s):  
Andriy Pochtovyuk ◽  
Kostyantyn Latyshev ◽  
Kateryna Zaika
Keyword(s):  
Production Capacity ◽  
Investment Strategy ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Metallurgical Enterprise ◽  
Resource Potential ◽  
Competitive Position ◽  
World Demand ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Enterprise Competitiveness ◽  
Main Components

The paper is devoted to formulation of theoretical, methodological and practical recommendations for ensuring enterprise sustainable competitiveness based on an integrated assessment of key resource determinants. The issue of ensuring enterprise competitiveness require increased attention in modern conditions of Ukrainian economy development. It was determined that implementation in production practice of these tasks are possible due to the efficient enterprise resource potential management, which will ensure maximum using of production capacity, cost reduction, improving product quality and competitive position stability. An object of the study is decision-making processes that appear using the enterprise competitiveness resource potential. Subject of the study is expansion of high-quality products’ production in conditions of world demand. The authors were solved the following set of tasks: was clarified the term’s essence «competitiveness» according scientific approach; was determined the enterprise position based on competitiveness integral index calculation; was identified enterprise competitiveness main components in accordance with the resource concept; an assessment of the enterprise technical and economic condition was carried out by calculating the wear and sustainable coefficients, also products qualitative parameters were established based on economic and mathematical modelling methods. The reasons for the decrease in the rate of metallurgical enterprise development were determined: outdated technologies, the need to comply with international quality standards, increased competition in the market, wear of fixed assets. In the final part, to solve these problems, a set of measures has been developed to improve the state of the enterprise by expanding the production of high-quality products through an investment strategy.

scholarly journals EDCrammer: An Efficient Caching Rate-Control Algorithm for Streaming Data on Resource-Limited Edge Nodes

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 2560 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunkon Kim ◽  
Eui-Nam Huh
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation System ◽  
Streaming Data ◽  
Data Traffic ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Data Caching ◽  
Resource Limited ◽  
Quality Video ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Efficient Data ◽  
Art Research

This paper explores data caching as a key factor of edge computing. State-of-the-art research of data caching on edge nodes mainly considers reactive and proactive caching, and machine learning based caching, which could be a heavy task for edge nodes. However, edge nodes usually have relatively lower computing resources than cloud datacenters as those are geo-distributed from the administrator. Therefore, a caching algorithm should be lightweight for saving computing resources on edge nodes. In addition, the data caching should be agile because it has to support high-quality services on edge nodes. Accordingly, this paper proposes a lightweight, agile caching algorithm, EDCrammer (Efficient Data Crammer), which performs agile operations to control caching rate for streaming data by using the enhanced PID (Proportional-Integral-Differential) controller. Experimental results using this lightweight, agile caching algorithm show its significant value in each scenario. In four common scenarios, the desired cache utilization was reached in 1.1 s on average and then maintained within a 4–7% deviation. The cache hit ratio is about 96%, and the optimal cache capacity is around 1.5 MB. Thus, EDCrammer can help distribute the streaming data traffic to the edge nodes, mitigate the uplink load on the central cloud, and ultimately provide users with high-quality video services. We also hope that EDCrammer can improve overall service quality in 5G environment, Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Intelligent Transportation System (ITS), Internet of Things (IoT), etc.

scholarly journals Technologies for Water Reuse: Current Status and Future Challenges

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 832
Author(s):  
Mauro Capocelli ◽  
Vincenzo Piemonte
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Water Reuse ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Future Challenges

Water is fundamental for the quality of both ecosystems and society, and plays a key role for energy and food production, a prerequisite for the sustainable development [...]

scholarly journals Seaports during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Terminal Operators’ Tactical Responses to Disruptions in Maritime Supply Chains

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (14) ◽  
pp. 4339
Author(s):  
Marta Mańkowska ◽  
Michał Pluciński ◽  
Izabela Kotowska ◽  
Ludmiła Filina-Dawidowicz
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Inductive Reasoning ◽  
Main Function ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Tactical Decisions

The world-wide crisis caused by the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a significant impact on the global economy functioning and the sustainable development of supply chains. The changes also affected seaports being the key links of maritime supply chains. The purpose of the research study described in this article was to identify the sources and kinds of disruptions observed in various maritime supply chains as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and their impact on the operations of various types of seaport terminals, namely those serving bulk (universal, specialised) and general cargoes (universal, specialised). An additional purpose was to identify the dependencies between the type of terminal and its main function, and the tactical decisions adopted by the particular terminals. The research was carried out using the multiple-case study method. The study covered some selected port terminals functioning in Polish seaports (Gdańsk, Szczecin, Świnoujście), applying direct, semi-structured in-depth interviews. The analysis of the results was carried out using the inductive reasoning method. The research study has shown that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic some maritime supply chains ceased to exist, some of them were operating with decreased cargo volumes, while in other cases the transshipment volumes actually rose during the pandemic. Among terminal operators’ tactical responses to disruptions in maritime supply chains, there were pro-active and adaptive measures. Pro-active (offensive) measures included actions taken by an enterprise in order to engage in new maritime supply chains, and even participating in establishing new maritime chains in response to limitations caused by the pandemic. Adaptive (defensive) measures covered actions taken by the port terminals as a consequence of changes in the existing maritime supply chains, caused by the pandemic in the port’s foreland or hinterland. The research study results revealed that the terminals extent of engagement and tactical decisions related to the pandemic were depended on the type of terminal (universal or specialised) and its main function played within a supply chain.

scholarly journals Introducing a Degrowth Approach to the Circular Economy Policies of Food Production, and Food Loss and Waste Management: Towards a Circular Bioeconomy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hoehn ◽  
Jara Laso ◽  
María Margallo ◽  
Israel Ruiz-Salmón ◽  
Francisco José Amo-Setién ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Food Production ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Loss ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
New Policies

There is a growing debate surrounding the contradiction between an unremitting increase in the use of resources and the search for environmental sustainability. Therefore, the concept of sustainable degrowth is emerging aiming to introduce in our societies new social values and new policies, capable of satisfying human requirements whilst reducing environmental impacts and consumption of resources. In this framework, circular economy strategies for food production and food loss and waste management systems, following the Sustainable Development Goals agenda, are being developed based on a search for circularity, but without setting limits to the continual increase in environmental impacts and resource use. This work presents a methodology for determining the percentage of degrowth needed in any food supply chain, by analyzing four scenarios in a life cycle assessment approach over time between 2020 and 2040. Results for the Spanish case study suggested a degrowth need of 26.8% in 2015 and 58.9% in 2040 in order to achieve compliance with the Paris Agreement targets, highlighting the reduction of meat and fish and seafood consumption as the most useful path.

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