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Enhancing value creation in short food supply chains through digital platforms

Agricultural and Food Economics
The digital transition toward sustainable food systems is a key challenge, boosted by recent policy initiatives to build up digitalized and sustainable business models at farm and territorial levels, which may address new opportunities for alternative ...
Margherita Masi, Marcello De Rosa, Chrysanthi Charatsari, Evagelos D. Lioutas, Yari Vecchio   +4 more
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A Provisional Framework for Studying Information Connectivity in Food Networks [PDF]

Through a discussion of peculiarities of food supply, involving focus on information connectivity, a preliminary framework is sought that underlines joint responsibility in a complete supply chain of actors working in network context to achieve safe ...
Engelseth, Per, Karlsen, Anniken
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Business process modelling in demand-driven agri-food supply chains : a reference framework [PDF]

, 2010
Keywords: Business process models; Supply chain management; Information systems; Reference information models; Market orientation; Mass customisation; Configuration; Coordination; Control; SCOR; Pot plants; Fruit industry Abstract The increasing ...
Verdouw, C.N.
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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inovação Social e Tecnologia Social. O Caso da Cadeia Curta de Agricultores Familiares e a Alimentação Escolar em Porto Alegre/RS

Desenvolvimento em Questão, 2016
In the global scenario, social and environmental problems are challenges that mobilize the searchfor alternatives to the current paradigm, such as social innovation and social technology.
Gabriel Borela Franzoni, Tania Nunes da Silva   +1 more
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An Integrated Oxygen‐Supplying Device and Predictive Multiphysics Model for Extended Ambient Transport of Insulin‐Producing Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cell therapies typically rely on cold‐chain logistics and cryopreservation, limiting access and compromising cell quality. Here, a dual‐chamber device separates an oxygen‐supplying chamber from a hyaluronic acid cargo chamber, sustaining oxygen delivery for over 70 h and enabling ambient‐temperature shipment.
Daniel A. Domingo‐Lopez, Ruth Tarpey, Benjamin Brennan, Bryan D. Boyle, Amir M. Alsharabasy, Abhik Mallick, Gabriella Bellavia, Abhay Pandit, Garry P. Duffy, Ruth E. Levey   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food and Wine Value Chains: The Fearne Residency in the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence Program [PDF]

Andrew Fearne, Professor of Food Marketing and Supply Chain Management and a Director of the dunnhumby Academy of Consumer Research at Kent University, UK, is a current Thinker in the Adelaide Thinkers in Residence (ATIR) program. Professor Fearne is the
Ronan, Glenn
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A Holistic Platform Approach for Developing Robust Pulmonary mRNA Delivery: Integrating Novel Phenolic Acid‐Derived Ionizable Lipids and Device Engineering

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An integrated pulmonary mRNA delivery platform combining novel biodegradable syringic acid‐derived ionizable lipids, design‐of‐experiments formulation optimization, and vibrating‐mesh nebulizer engineering enabled stable aerosolization and efficient lung delivery.
Neha Kaushal, Younan Ma, Asad Khanmohammed, Dipen Parande, Hanming Zhang, Saket Dolare, Juliet Chen, Apiwat Wangweerawong, Saswata Karmakar, Hongfeng Deng, Frank Koppenhagen, Shraddha Sharma, Eric Reyes, Sherry He, Lianne Boeglin, Caroline Woo, Azadeh Paksa, Ayed Allawzi, Anusha Dias, Gregory Troiano, Shrirang Karve, Frank DeRosa   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

RURAL SUSTAINABILITY THROUGH SHORT SUPPLY CHAINS [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development
This research focuses on consumers' level of interest and perception regarding short supply chains of local agri-food products in the context of rural development.
Florin PUIU, Adrian TUREK-RAHOVEANU
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Staging value creation processes in short food supply chains of Italy

Agricultural and Food Economics
Farmers’ markets, as a short food supply chain system, are considered schemes that can contribute to local development, producing economic, environmental, and social value. These three facets of value can set the stage for building up the farmers' market
Marcello De Rosa, Chrysanthi Charatsari, Evagelos D. Lioutas, Yari Vecchio, Margherita Masi   +4 more
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