Food security, safety, and sustainability—getting the trade-offs right

I Vågsholm, NS Arzoomand, S Boqvist - Frontiers in sustainable food …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The United Nations sustainable development goals include eradication of hunger. To feed
10 billion persons 2050, we need to get the trade-offs right between sustainability, food …

Agri-food loss and waste management: Win-win strategies for edible discarded fruits and vegetables sustainable reuse

F Facchini, B Silvestri, S Digiesi, A Lucchese - Innovative Food Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the world, a large amount of food is lost or becomes waste along the agri-food supply
chain. Circular Economy models in the agri-food systems can reduce the amount of food …

Redesigning a food bank supply chain network in a triple bottom line context

CL Martins, MT Melo, MV Pato - International Journal of Production …, 2019 - Elsevier
We address the problem of redesigning a multi-echelon food bank supply chain network for
the collection of food donations and their distribution to charitable agencies. Strategic …

A systematic literature review of food banks' supply chain operations with a focus on optimization models

AF Rivera, NR Smith, A Ruiz - Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Food banks play an increasingly important role in society by mitigating hunger and
hel** needy people; however, research aimed at improving food bank operations is …

[HTML][HTML] Dealing with donations: Supply chain management challenges for food banks

R Akkerman, M Buisman, F Cruijssen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Food banks redistribute food donations that would otherwise be lost for consumption by
humans to people in need. As such, food banks play an important role both in addressing …

Decision support models for managing food aid supply chains: A systematic literature review

M Mahmoudi, K Shirzad, V Verter - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
We review existing decision support models (including statistical, simulation, and
optimization models) aimed at addressing chronic food insecurity issue by enhancing the …

A study of barriers for adoption and growth of food banks in India using hybrid DEMATEL and Analytic Network Process

N Dubey, A Tanksale - Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Food banks play a significant role to ensure food security through surplus food recovery and
redistribution to economically deprived and marginalized people. Food bank is a recent …

A multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time windows, split pickup and split delivery for surplus food recovery and redistribution

N Dubey, A Tanksale - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
The problem faced by the food banks operating on the front-end model is the collection of
surplus food from donation points and re-distribution of it to the demand points using a fleet …

Estimating surplus food supply for food rescue and delivery operations

DJ Nair, TH Rashidi, VV Dixit - Socio-economic planning sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
Hunger remains a largely hidden social problem in many developed nations. The not-for-
profit food rescue organizations, aid in alleviating hunger, by rescuing the surplus food from …

Achieving equity, effectiveness, and efficiency in food bank operations: Strategies for feeding America with implications for global hunger relief

I Sengul Orgut, LG Brock III, LB Davis, JS Ivy… - Advances in managing …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract One in six Americans (14.3% of households) reported being food insecure at some
time during the year 2013 (ie, they lacked access to enough food for an active, healthy life …