From freight trains to cold chains : Building China's new supply chains for fresh food
De baten van digitaal zakendoen worden sterk bepaald door de breedte en intensiteit van het gebruik van elektronische berichten. Een brede acceptatie en invoering van digitaal zakendoen bij de verschillende partijen in potplantenketens is dan ook cruciaal. Together 4 Better (T4B) Plantcenter Europe heeft de afgelopen jaren hierin belangrijke slagen...
The project goal is to link significant inhibitors with existing or custom build solutions, adapted to local circumstances, to improve efficiency in Indian postharvest fresh food chains.
Challenged by the increasing scale of environmental degradation and corresponding stakeholders’ pressure, firms are increasingly integrating environmental concerns into their operations and into the relationships with external partners. Mainly through the theoretical lens of the Resource-based view and its spins-offs, this dissertation focuses on e...
Can agri-food companies do it all? Develop new markets, secure supply, protect reputations, ensure profits and reduce poverty, create jobs and guarantee food supplies? Company strategies now commonly refer to ‘creating shared value’ and ‘inclusive business’. But with growing pressure on resources, a billion hungry people and some four billion peopl...
Setting up biobased production chains, from biomass feedstock to final biobased product (energy, chemicals, materials) is a complicated process in which a whole range of decisions have to be made. Choices include what feedstocks to use, arranging logistics and most important of all the locating facilities to compact and dewater and convert the biom...
The present study is to investigate the commitment of potential participants to contribute to these opportunities and what their conditions are to the 3 main activities.