Zia Taqueria is a full-service restaurant in Durango, Colorado whose owners have steadily increased the proportion of local vegetables, grains and meats they source and serve to their customers. They created new supply chains that add value to heritage products grown in the Four Corners area,...

This study analyzes U.S. cocoa bean imports from twenty-one major cocoa-producing and exporting countries during the pre- and post-liberalization period of 1970-2008 using the gravity equation and a linear one-way fixed effects model. The objective was to measure trade creation for a World Trade...

Sets the groundwork for discussion of the subject: eliminating roadblocks to productivity.

Discusses the "productivity crisis" in the food industry and suggests positive and negative fluences on the situation during the 1970's.

Discusses the need for cooperation between all segments of the logistic system of the food delivery system.

The author outlines reasons for the declining capital productivity in the Supermarket Industry, present cash flow generated inadequate to sustain desired growth rate.

Now that the era of cheap energy is over what approaches does the food processing industry need to take to improve productivity.