Background: Brazil is one of the largest consumers of fertilizers and is highly dependent on the international market to meet its demand for agricultural production inputs. The complexity of the fertilizer supply chain motivated us to carry out this study on redesigning the fertilizer logistics...

Reducing post-harvest loss (PHL) is an important way to increase food availability without pressure from additional production resources. Although the subject has several dimensions, the literature has analyzed the problem unilaterally without estimating the determinants of post-harvest loss...

The main objectives are to evaluate the performance of the cut flower sector, concerning supply chain integration and foreign market competitiveness, and to heighten the understanding of the contributions and obstacles of logistics in floriculture. An IO model developed proved to be an important...

The frequent occurrence of cargo theft in Brazil has considerably affected the highway transport mode. The utilization of these insurance have some relation with characteristics of transport companies (carriers), as well with the kind of service they sell. The main goal of this paper is to...