Biochar and environmental sustainability: emerging trends and techno-economic perspectives

N Khan, P Chowdhary, E Gnansounou… - Bioresource …, 2021 - Elsevier
Environmental pollutants including emerging contaminants are a growing concern
worldwide. Organic wastes, such as food waste, compost, animal manure, crop residues …

Reinforcement learning for crop management support: Review, prospects and challenges

R Gautron, OA Maillard, P Preux, M Corbeels… - … and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reinforcement learning (RL), including multi-armed bandits, is a branch of machine learning
that deals with the problem of sequential decision-making in uncertain and unknown …

[HTML][HTML] Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter?

D Kangogo, D Dentoni, J Bijman - Land Use Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change poses significant challenges to agriculture, with serious impacts on
smallholder farmers' food security and livelihoods. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is being …

Efficient multi-objective metaheuristic algorithm for sustainable harvest planning problem

AM Fathollahi-Fard, G Tian, H Ke, Y Fu… - Computers & Operations …, 2023 - Elsevier
The shift towards sustainable and regenerative agriculture is being propelled by global
farmers due to increasing awareness of social inequalities and climate change. To make this …

Socially relevant and inclusive operations management

N Sunar, JM Swaminathan - Production and Operations …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Many parts of the world are experiencing extreme weather events, energy poverty, food
insecurity, and lack of access to basic healthcare. Moreover, concerns over socioeconomic …

Agricultural production system in arid and semi-arid regions

B Golla - International Journal of Agricultural Science and Food …, 2021 - agriscigroup.us
The arid and semi-arid regions comprise more than forty present of the Earth's land surface
on which a large number of people situated and largely engaged in agriculture to meet their …

The role of inclusive innovation in promoting social sustainability

B Kalkanci, M Rahmani… - Production and …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

The impact of contract farming on agricultural product supply in developing economies

J Chen, YJ Chen - Production and Operations Management, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Motivated by “company+ farmer” farming operations of Wens, New Hope Liuhe, and Huiren,
this study formalizes the impact of production‐management and resource‐providing types of …

Toward resilient agriculture value chains: challenges and opportunities

L Dong - Production and Operations Management, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

The reflection of competition and coordination on organic agribusiness supply chains

M Nematollahi, A Tajbakhsh, BM Sedghy - Transportation Research Part E …, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the social, environmental, and economic advantages of organic products compared to
their conventional counterparts, there has been a growing interest in improving agribusiness …