Introduction to food loss in the produce industry / Travis Minor and Suzanne Thornsbury -- Loss and waste: are we really measuring a problem? / Elise Golan, Travis Minor, and Suzanne Thornsbury -- Existing efforts in measuring and modeling early value-chain food losses / Brian E. Roe -- Economic...

"Food loss is a serious issue in the United States. It affects all aspects of the supply chain, from farmers to consumers. While much is already known about loss at the consumer level, our understanding of the amount of food that never makes it to this stage is more limited. The Economics of...

Worldwide, most farms are small and family-operated. This study discusses the future of smallholder agriculture in China, where most farms are small, and farms' parcels are fragmented. The study puts forward a framework of vertical division of labor and specialized production in agriculture. We...