This paper studies the financial and risk management specific to agricultural cooperatives (co-ops). In order to acquire the necessary risk capital to implement competitive strategies, like value-added processing, many agricultural co-ops are adopting capital structure innovations. Fonterra, a...

Resilience, defined as the ability to recover quickly and effectively from a disruption, is critically important for supply chains. Yet, it has not been quantified as frequently as supply chain robustness. In this paper we review the existing metrics for supply chain resilience and introduce a...

Supply chain risk management is a large and growing field of research. However, within this field, mathematical models for agricultural products have received relatively little attention. This is somewhat surprising as risk management is even more important for agricultural supply chains due to...