The increase in population, high standards of living and rapid urbanization has led to an increasing demand for food across the globe. The global trade has made it possible to meet this demand by enabling transport of different food products from one part of the world to another. In this trade, refrigerated …

Lupineschillen (lupine zaadhuid) zijn een reststroom van lupineverwerking. Lupineschillen vormen 25% van de totale biomassa van de lupineboon, terwijl sojaschillen slechts 5% van de totale biomassa van de sojaboon zijn. Er zijn onvoldoende rendabele toepassingen voor lupineschillen waardoor de rentabiliteit …

This chapter presents the currently not established and identifies design requirements for new systems to address this challenge and provide directions for possible improvement. As a result, this chapter introduces the concept of SamenMarkt®, a participatory system in which multi-agent system technology …

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact that unevenly allocating buffer capacity has on throughput and average buffer level regarding unreliable lines to better understand the relevant factors in supply chain design. Results show that the best patterns for unreliable merging lines in terms …

Côte d’Ivoire produces about 42 percent of the world’s total Cocoa but processes only a very few amount of the production. A big part of the country depends on the commercial benefits of the Cocoa production and supply chain of it. For that reason, the World Bank asked the simulation group of the Amsterdam …

Making interorganizational cooperation successful proves a daunting task. While cur- rent approaches to interorganizational performance management (PM) highlight why interorganizational cooperation matters and which phases are required, it remains silent on the dynamics of interorganizational PM. …

The theme of the research is “Moving dairy farmers from informal to formal milk supply chain” A case study of Tanga Dairy Cooperative Union in Tanga district, Tanzania”. The study was carried out in two wards of Tanga district namely Pingon and Pongwe, between the end of June and the fist half of August …

This study was conducted in Ziway - Hawassa milk shade, found in Oromia administrative region, Ethiopia with the objective to design suitable business models through quantifying greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from smallholder milk producers. Five districts (Shashemane, Arsi - Negelle, Kofelle, Adami …

Linking farmers to markets widely viewed as a milestone towards promoting economic growth and poverty reduction. The vast opportunity in agriculture, tourism and light industries is available in Zanzibar will help to boost poverty reduction and sustainable development of the nation. However, the weak …