"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 Food Loss in the Produce Industry focuses on the economics of food …

-- Agrifood chain -- Value added and employment growth in EU primary agriculture and food processing / Trevor Donnellan and Kevin … Hanrahan -- EU food quality policy and rural employment / Liesbeth Dries, Jack Peerlings and L. van de Pol -- Post …

-- Empirical modeling of food loss in the produce sector / Timothy J. Richards and Ashok K. Mishra -- USDA and EPA estimation …Introduction to food loss in the produce industry / Travis Minor and Suzanne Thornsbury -- Loss and waste: are we … early value-chain food losses / Brian E. Roe -- Economic trade-offs in food loss policies / Fred Kuchler and Travis Minor …

the effects of contract farming (vertical coordination) on productivity, food security indicators (yield, consumption … institutional changes, like contract farming, on income and food security of smallholder households. The core of the book will … Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute, South Asia Office, New Delhi, India. Pramod K. Joshi is former Senior …

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling … estimation and ii) identifying the channels through which food aid influences conflict. We argue that future work should contain …