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...