Game Analysis on Problem of Food Safety in the Agricultural Products Supply Chain

2010 ◽  
Vol 20-23 ◽  
pp. 1040-1045 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheng Hua Shi ◽  
Zi Lai Sun ◽  
Kun Jing Dong
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Survival And Development ◽  
The Game Theory ◽  
The Government ◽  
Material Conditions

Food is the most basic material conditions of survival and development of human society, its security situation is relation to the health and safety of consumer directly. This paper analyze the reasons of causing problems of food quality and safety in the agricultural products supply chain from the perspective of the game theory as well as the government incentive and regulatory mechanisms affect the decision-making of farmers and food producers respectively. In the game between crop growers - farmers and food producers, the government play the outsider role and should give farmers subsidies to encourage them to grow high-quality green crops, as far as possible to ensure food safety from the source. In the game between producers and regulators, the government, as the game participant, should be asked to improve the supervision efficiency and the control ability to prevent unqualified food products entering the market.

Safety on Food Supply Chain Game Basing on Profit Distribution

2010 ◽  
Vol 121-122 ◽  
pp. 710-716 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kui Zhang ◽  
Hai Feng Qi ◽  
Cheng Hua Shi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Basic Material ◽  
Chain Process ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Profit Distribution ◽  
Material Condition ◽  
Survival And Development

The security of food has a direct relationship with consumers’ health and safety, which is the most basic material condition for human society’s survival and development. In the food market, information asymmetry exists in the entire food supply chain process, and the member companies are in game relationship during the operating process about food safety. The solution to the problem of food depends on the establishment of a reasonable distribution mechanism about food suppliers. Based on game theory, this paper builds and analyzes the profit distribution model of food supply chain and points out that a reasonable profit distribution mechanism plays an important role on the safety of food.

Exploration of COVID-19 impact on the dimensions of food safety and security: a perspective of societal issues with relief measures

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janpriy Sharma ◽  
Mohit Tyagi ◽  
Arvind Bhardwaj
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Food Industries ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

PurposeOutbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has created the catastrophic situation, it has crippled all the economic activities and seized off the operations of food supply chain (FSC). Disrupted FSC escalated the societal concerns related to food safety and security. The purpose of this study is to consolidate various issues, exploring the perspectives associated with the agricultural practices, food industries and society concerns related with the FSC performance system dynamics amid of COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachTo structure this work, a detailed research literature insight focussing on the key findings associated with the past disease outbreaks like influenza, avian flu, Ebola, bird flu, SARS, foot and mouth disease and ongoing phase of COVID-19, encompassing the perspective related with various agricultural and concerned supply chain practices is clustered. Furthermore, issues having relevancy with the notion of this work, sourced from platforms of print and electronic media have been incorporated to ground the reality associated with the impacts, for better visualisation of the perspectives.FindingsThis study outlays the key findings which are relevant with the past pandemic outbreaks from the core of the research literature. It details the impact of the current COVID-19 scenario on the various FSC operations, focussing on dimensions allied with the industry, economic and society concerns. For the same, to mitigate the effects, relief measures focussing on the short- and long-term perspectives have been incorporated. Steps ramped up by the Government of India (GOI) to safeguard masses from the threat of food security, accelerate pace of the FSC operations and upscale operating capacities of the industries and agriculture practices have incorporated.Research limitations/implicationsPresented work is persuaded amid of the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions hence it outlays the theoretical perspectives only. But, these perspectives portray the ongoing scenario's impacts, extending its implication to the people coming from the industry and academia background. This study can felicitate the government bodies to make them familiar with the various impacts which indented the FSCs, food industries and added woes to the society concerns.Originality/valueIndia is the second largest populated nation of the world, and outspread of the COVID-19 has capsized the FSCs and raised the various instances, making population vulnerable to the threats of food insecurity. This study encompasses effect of the FSC disruption by incorporating its effect on the food industries practices, societal issues and extending possible relief measures to restructure the FSC dynamics. As of now, study focussing on the Indian FSC concerns, detailing of impacts due to pandemic outbreak, relief measures to sail out of the hard times are not available.

Construction of New Circulation Model for Green Supply Chain of Agricultural Products in China

2020 ◽  
pp. 220-230
Author(s):  
Syed Shahid Khan ◽  
Syed Abdul Rehman Khan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Circulation Model ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Green Supply Chain ◽  
Circulation Mode ◽  
The People ◽  
Green Development ◽  
Green Production ◽  
The Government

With the continuous development of China's agricultural economy, the concept of green production has begun to penetrate into the hearts of the people. Exploring a new circulation mode adapted to China's green supply chain of agricultural products is an important way to promote green production in China, and also an important condition to promote the successful transformation and development of China's rural economy. But in the process of building a green supply chain of agricultural products and exploring circulation mode, there are many problems that hinder the development of green industry economy. Therefore, it is necessary for the government to play a guiding role and actively guide farmers to explore green development ways and new circulation mode to meet their own development needs, which provides reference for better optimizing the new circulation mode of agricultural products supply chain in China.

scholarly journals Financing Decisions Analysis of E-commerce Supply Chain Finance for Fresh Agricultural Products in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Xian Ning
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Financing Decisions ◽  
Supply Chain Finance ◽  
The Government ◽  
Difficult Issue

The supply chain finance (SCF) solutions are becoming increasingly diversified with the continuous perfection of the economic system. However, financing for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is still a difficult issue waiting to be solved by enterprises and the government in China. SCF solutions based on e-commerce platforms have developed rapidly in China that provide an alternative for SMEs when few studies have been conducted on e-commerce SCF solutions which focus on fresh agricultural products. Therefore, this research focuses on the SCF solutions applicable to e commerce enterprises of fresh agricultural products.

scholarly journals Vertical Integration of Agricultural products supply chain and quality Safety of Agricultural products

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 02048
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Cong Jing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Vertical Integration ◽  
Economic Model ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Agricultural Product ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
The World

Today, food safety is a common concern in the world. As the main source of food, agricultural products’ safety is also worthy of attention. By establishing the vertical integration model of the agricultural product supply chain, the circulation links of agricultural products can be reduced, and the circulation efficiency and quality level of agricultural products can be improved. This paper assumes that under the condition of simple fresh agricultural products, there is only one wholesaler and one retailer in the agricultural product supply chain. Through the analysis of the economic model, it is concluded that the vertical integration of the agricultural product supply chain has a positive impact on the safety of agricultural products. With the improvement of the vertical integration of the supply agricultural products supply chain, the efforts of wholesalers and suppliers to ensure the safety of agricultural products have been improved, the circulation cost of agricultural products has been reduced, and the sales price of agricultural products has been reduced.

scholarly journals Research on Government Subsidy Strategies for the Development of Agricultural Products E-Commerce

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1152
Author(s):  
Yaoguang Zhong ◽  
Ivan Ka Wai Lai ◽  
Fangfang Guo ◽  
Huajun Tang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Stackelberg Game ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Agricultural Cooperatives ◽  
Government Subsidy ◽  
Profit Model ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Government

In many countries, the governments support the development of local agriculture through subsidization. Subsidizing the sales of agricultural products through E-commerce channels is a way to support the development of agriculture in China. This study aims to develop a profit model and apply Stackelberg game theory to determine which type of subsidies and decision-making can provide the maximum benefits for agricultural products E-commerce supply chains. The results indicate that for both centralized decisions and decentralized decisions, the subsidizing to the agricultural cooperative is better than the subsidizing to consumers and no subsidization. The sales volume, preservation level, sales efforts, and overall profit of the agricultural products E-commerce supply chain are significantly higher. It suggests that the government should play a leading role to support the development of agricultural products E-commerce. This study contributes to agricultural research by developing a profit model to examine the effects of different government subsidy strategies on each member of the agricultural online shopping supply chain. Recommendations are provided for agricultural cooperatives, E-commerce platforms, and the government to improve the quality and sales of agricultural products through online shopping channels.

scholarly journals Pricing and Safety Investment Decisions in Food Supply Chains with Government Subsidy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Yanan Yu ◽  
Yong He ◽  
Melissza Salling
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Wholesale Price ◽  
Government Subsidies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Safe Food ◽  
Safety Investment

As the demand for safe food has been rapidly increasing these years, more and more stakeholders are dedicated to the safety of the food in the supply chain of this sector. To expand the market share of safe food, governments of some countries also provide subsidies to encourage food processors to invest in better food safety efforts. This paper establishes a three-stage game model between the government and a two-stage food supply chain that consists of one supplier and one processor, where the government subsidizes processors to invest in food safety efforts; furthermore, this paper determines the optimal wholesale price, marginal profit, food safety investment, and government subsidies. This paper analyzes the effects of the government subsidies and risk aversion of the food processor and introduces the mode of order quantity-based payment and demand-based payment; moreover, it also analyzes the impacts of subsidies and different payment methods on demands. The results show that suppliers can increase the market share of products by adopting the demand-based payment, but this method does not always benefit the members of the supply chain. As the processor is more risk-averse, the optimal subsidy is higher, encouraging the processor to invest in more efforts. Finally, the supplier’s profit increases with the processor’s risk aversion indicator.

scholarly journals Blockchain-Based Traceability and Visibility for Agricultural Products: A Decentralized Way of Ensuring Food Safety in India

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepak Prashar ◽  
Nishant Jha ◽  
Sudan Jha ◽  
Yongju Lee ◽  
Gyanendra Prasad Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Safety ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Convergence Time ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Chain System ◽  
Traceability System

The globalization of the food supply chain industry has significantly emerged today. Due to this, farm-to-fork food safety and quality certification have become very important. Increasing threats to food security and contamination have led to the enormous need for a revolutionary traceability system, an important mechanism for quality control that ensures sufficient food supply chain product safety. In this work, we proposed a blockchain-based solution that removes the need for a secure centralized structure, intermediaries, and exchanges of information, optimizes performance, and complies with a strong level of safety and integrity. Our approach completely relies on the use of smart contracts to monitor and manage all communications and transactions within the supply chain network among all of the stakeholders. Our approach verifies all of the transactions, which are recorded and stored in a centralized interplanetary file system database. It allows a secure and cost-effective supply chain system for the stakeholders. Thus, our proposed model gives a transparent, accurate, and traceable supply chain system. The proposed solution shows a throughput of 161 transactions per second with a convergence time of 4.82 s, and was found effective in the traceability of the agricultural products.

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