Estimating available supermarket commodities for food bank collection in the absence of information

Brock, Luther G.; Davis, Lauren B.

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2014.11.068

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“…Moreover, food banks have usually limited economic resources for transportation and storage of foods. The biggest challenge for food banks are predicting their food supplies, which impair their ability to transport, store, and distribute donated foods cost efficiently (Brock and Davis, 2015). Moreover, to ensure a wholesome diet for their clients the food banks often need to purchase complementary foods.…”

Section: Food Donations-resilience and Novel It Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Security, Safety, and Sustainability—Getting the Trade-Offs Right

Vågsholm

Arzoomand

Boqvist

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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The United Nations sustainable development goals include eradication of hunger. To feed 10 billion persons 2050, we need to get the trade-offs right between sustainability, food security, food safety, and make better use of food already produced. The hierarchy of strategies for reducing food losses and waste are in descending order source reduction, reusing or reprocessing surplus foods, recycle food as feed for animals, recover the energy as biofuels, nutrients as compost, or raw materials for industry, while as last resorts one may consider recovering the energy by incineration or dumping as garbage in landfills. This paper will explore the trade-offs inherent when aiming at triple goals of sustainability, food security, and safety looking at these strategies for reducing food losses and waste and resource footprints. Intensification of food production and circular food systems could be parts of these solutions to future food security. In this regard could our future trade-offs be informed by the experiences from the use of antimicrobials to intensify food production and from the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in terms of circular food production? There is no trade-off between intensification of food production aided by antimicrobials and the public health risks from antimicrobial resistance due to the zoo-technical use of antimicrobials. A sustainable future requires control of antimicrobial resistance. If one avoids that cycles of nutrients become cycles of pathogens and/or hazards, circular food production systems will a major contribution to the future sustainable food security. Source reduction i.e., limiting food losses and waste appears to the strategy most promising for achieving sustainability. By using artificial intelligence and intelligent packaging major progress is possible, with the added benefit of better control of food fraud. A changed diet-eating more plant-based foods and not eating animal protein produced by edible feedstuffs, and source reduction of the food lost or wasted should enable us to feed at least an additional billion persons. Solutions to sustainability and food security should integrate food safety considerations from the start.

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Section: Food Donations-resilience and Novel It Solutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Food Security, Safety, and Sustainability—Getting the Trade-Offs Right

Vågsholm

Arzoomand

Boqvist

2020

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

194

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“…A significant function of humanitarian organizations is providing aid (i.e., relief items or supply) during natural disasters. Aid can take the form of food (Wang 2013;Brock and Davis 2015) or non-food items like medical supplies or money (Ülkü et al 2015; Özpolat et al 2015). Many of the papers have focused on demand forecasting (Van der Laan et al 2016;Law et al 2019;Kim et al 2019;Singh et al 2006;Sarhani and El Afia 2014;Syntetos et al 2016).…”

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An ensemble forecasting model for predicting contribution of food donors based on supply behavior

Paul

Davis

2021

Ann Oper Res

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Food banks are nonprofit hunger relief organizations that collect donations from donors and distribute food to local agencies that serve people in need. Donors consist of local supermarkets, manufacturers, and community organizations. The frequency, quantity, and type of food donated by each donor can vary each month. In this research, we propose a technique to identify the supply behavior of donors and cluster them based on these attributes. We then develop a predictive ensemble model to forecast the contribution of different donor clusters. Our study shows the necessary behavioral attributes to classify donors and the best way to cluster donor data to improve the prediction model.

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“…A logistic regression model was developed to predict whether a person will donate or not to a humanitarian agency during natural disasters. Brock and Davis (2015) used neural network models to forecast inkind donations from retail donors for a food bank. Nuamah et al (2015) have developed a state-space based simulation model for exponential smoothing to determine the expected quantity of food donations received per month in a multi-warehouse distribution network.…”

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confidence: 99%

Development of a Dashboard for a Local Food Bank

Desai¹,

Jiang²,

Davis³

2017

American Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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Abstract:Hunger relief is one of the major needs during humanitarian emergencies. It presents significant challenges to aid organizations trying to manage data, information and knowledge about the situation or event. Food banks receive donations from a variety of sources to meet their demand. The distribution of donated food to meet the unmet hunger needs is a critical issue faced by the food banks across the nation. This paper presents a methodology to apply interactive dashboards to a food bank's decision making process. The first step of this research focuses on understanding the existing decision making process of a food bank. Data from a local food bank was used for this research. Data mining tools were employed to develop predictive models for food bank decision making. Appropriate visualization techniques were identified that can be used to visualize the data mining results. An interactive dashboard was developed and evaluated to enable effective decision making. The results indicated that interactive dashboards were highly effective as compared to the traditional data retrieval system for decision making in food bank operations. The new methodology can be extended to other food banks and hunger-relief organizations which deal with big data.

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Estimating available supermarket commodities for food bank collection in the absence of information

Cited by 33 publications

References 37 publications

Food Security, Safety, and Sustainability—Getting the Trade-Offs Right

Food Security, Safety, and Sustainability—Getting the Trade-Offs Right

An ensemble forecasting model for predicting contribution of food donors based on supply behavior

Development of a Dashboard for a Local Food Bank

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