Economic and environmental consequences' of postharvest loss across food supply Chain in the developing countries

Ali, Abdelrahman; Xia, Chunping; Ouattara, N’Banan; Mahmood, Imdad Ali; Faisal, Muhammad

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129146

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“…and J.P.E established the enhanced regression tree (BRT) model by controlling the temperature of each link in the blueberry supply chain, and applied the simulated supply chain with different temperatures-time scenarios, to study which model could minimize the loss in the blueberry supply chain [10]. Ali and Chunping Xia believed that the use of a short supply chain, collective marketing, cold transportation and storage services can maintain product quality and prolong its shelf life, and reduce the loss of fresh products in the supply chain [11].…”

Section: Losses In the Fresh Supply Chainmentioning

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Problems and explorations of the fresh supply chain in China context

He¹,

Wang²,

Yan³

2022

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Through the study and comparison of the literature of many countries, the literature review and integration of the three aspects are mainly focused on the development of the operating mode of the fresh supply chain, the causes of the loss, and the research on the improvement of the loss of fresh products. Finally, through the comparative analysis of the research content, it points out the shortcomings of current research in China and the direction of future research. The research of fresh product loss management has been paid close attention to by scholars all over the world. This study has great significance to increase the total value of the fresh supply chain and the development of the fresh cold chain.

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Section: Losses In the Fresh Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Problems and explorations of the fresh supply chain in China context

He¹,

Wang²,

Yan³

2022

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“…Based on the previous presentation, we expected the stakeholders’ e-commerce participation has a positive impact on fruit farmers’ use intensity of organic fertilizers, which could accelerate their transformation to adopt the organic agriculture system. At the same time, that could achieve a lower agro-food production environmental footprint, besides achieving sustainable rural development through enhancing the income of small farmer to produce healthy and safety food [ 44 ].…”

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“…accelerate their transformation to adopt the organic agriculture system. At the same time, that could achieve a lower agro-food production environmental footprint, besides achieving sustainable rural development through enhancing the income of small farmer to produce healthy and safety food [44].…”

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Does E-commerce participation increase the use intensity of organic fertilizers in fruit production?–Evidence from China

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Xia³

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Commerce has had positive impacts on the whole agri-food value chain at different stages, it was developed rapidly in rural China in the past few years. E-commerce participation can promote the use intensity of organic fertilizers (OF) and this could achieve many benefits for different stakeholders including ensuring food safety, positive environmental impacts and promoting the adoption of green production technologies. Therefore, this study has used primary data collected from 733 fruit farmers in rural China to explore the impact of e-commerce participation on fruit farmers’ use intensity of (OF). Unlike previous studies investigating the dichotomous decision of (OF) adoption, this study captures the use intensity of (OF) from both input quantity and cost aspects. We employed an endogenous switching regression (ESR) model to address selectivity bias caused by observed and unobserved factors. The results show that e-commerce participation significantly increases the use intensity of (OF) in input quantity and cost by 19.48% and 29.50%, respectively. Heterogeneous analysis further reveals that compared to fruit farmers with a low e-commerce participation level, fruit farmers with a high e-commerce participation level have higher (OF) use intensity. The findings also show that risk preference, human capital, cultivated area, cooperative membership and government restraint mechanisms positively and significantly affect the probability of fruit farmers’ participation in e-commerce and fruit farmers’ use intensity of (OF). The results emphasize that e-commerce promotion is an efficient way to encourage farmers to adopt (OF), which help improve product quality and promote sustainable agricultural development.

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“…Commonly, food consumption is determined by economic, social, and cultural factors, where economic factors include individual income, prices, availability, population, etc., while social factors comprise family size, education, location, etc., and culture includes beliefs, ideologies, unwritten norms, motivations, attitudes and knowledge about food. Decreasing food loss and waste came to be an urgent need to achieve the global transformation of agro-food system to be more sustainable and resilient with the climate change (Ali et al, 2021b). Globally, one-third of the food produced for human needs is lost or wasted over the entire food supply chain 1 , where grown but lost or wasted food has significant environmental and economic costs (Ali et al, 2021b;Gustavsson and Stage, 2011).…”

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“…Decreasing food loss and waste came to be an urgent need to achieve the global transformation of agro-food system to be more sustainable and resilient with the climate change (Ali et al, 2021b). Globally, one-third of the food produced for human needs is lost or wasted over the entire food supply chain 1 , where grown but lost or wasted food has significant environmental and economic costs (Ali et al, 2021b;Gustavsson and Stage, 2011). FW is a threat to the global food security and reducing FW by 50% could contribute feeding the hungry people around the world (Abbade, 2020).…”

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Exploring Egyptian Youth’s Awareness towards Food Waste

Mohamed

2022

AJAS

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Decreasing food waste (FW) came to be an urgent need to achieve sustainable food systems transformation. Measuring the youth's awareness towards FW represents an important action to design an effective strategy intervention that aims reduction the percentage of FW. The purpose of this paper is to explore the knowledge of youth regarding FW as well as identify factors influencing this knowledge. To achieve the aim of this study, the primary data have been collected from 430 students at Fayoum University, Egypt. The binary logistic regression (BLR) model was employed to identify factors influencing FW knowledge among youth. Results showed that age, residence place, and knowledge of social, economic and environmental impacts of food waste are significantly influencing knowledge about FW. The current results concluded and highlighted the importance of designing an educational curriculum at universities including FW and sustainable consumption concepts. So, youth's skills-building interventions through campaigns should be regularly held to promote changing norms and attitudes toward less FW and responsible consumption behaviour to accelerate the sustainable agri-food systems transformation in developing countries.

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Economic and environmental consequences' of postharvest loss across food supply Chain in the developing countries

Cited by 42 publications

References 45 publications

Problems and explorations of the fresh supply chain in China context

Problems and explorations of the fresh supply chain in China context

Does E-commerce participation increase the use intensity of organic fertilizers in fruit production?–Evidence from China

Exploring Egyptian Youth’s Awareness towards Food Waste

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