Agriculture value chains are going through a paradigm shift, from efficiency‐driven industrial
agriculture to resilience‐focused eco‐friendly agriculture. The nature of the paradigm shift is …

Logistical activities have a significant global environmental impact, necessitating the
adoption of green logistics practices to mitigate environmental effects. The COVID-19 …

This special issue implores us to address sustainability from the lens of emerging
economies and the role that innovation can play in this context. We posit that, for sustainable …

Problem definition: It is estimated that one third of the food produced worldwide is wasted.
This has been recognized as a critical problem by the United Nations, the US Environmental …

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 …

This paper presents a solution of a generalized newsvendor problem with supply disruption
and dual sourcing, where the underlying product price and demand are correlated and …

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 …

Nonprofit crowdsourcing platforms such as food recovery organizations rely on volunteers to
perform time-sensitive tasks. Thus, their success crucially depends on efficient volunteer …

The rise of contract farming has transformed millions of farmers' lives. We study a new class
of contract farming problems, where the farmer holds superior information and can invest …

Nonprofit organizations have adopted online scheduling platforms that give autonomy to
volunteers in the scheduling process. However, this strategy can create imbalances in task …