Special issue call for papers: 

Impact of COVID-19 on Agri-Food Supply Chains: Safety, Technology, Economy, Policy (STEP)

Guest Editors:

• Dr. Rahul S Mor, Dept. of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat, India (dr.rahulmor@gmail.com, rahul.mor@niftem.ac.in) [Managing Guest Editor]

• Dr. Anupama Singh, Dept. of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat, India (anupama.singh@niftem.ac.in)

• Dr. Emel Aktas, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK (emel.aktas@cranfield.ac.uk)

• Dr. Riccardo Accorsi, Dept. of Industrial Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy (riccardo.accorsi2@unibo.it)

• Dr. Sunil Luthra, Government Polytechnic, Jhajjar, Haryana, India (sunilluthra1977@gmail.com)

Overview of Special Issue:

Today, globalization has escalated cross-border trade opportunities, interdependence of national economies, production of highly value-added and customized products, accessibility of goods, services and technology across all industries including the agri-food sector. However, in view of globalization, the 21st century witnessed various pandemics and the most recent Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has critically affected economic & technological structure of organizations and disrupted the lives globally. The nationwide lockdowns due to the spread of COVID-19 has forced most of the developed and developing nations to stop their economy. Irrespective of the industry type, it has contrived safety, technology, economy and policy of most of the organizations. The Agri-Food Supply Chains (AFSCs), linking the operations of food production with ‘farm to fork’, the agri-farming, food processing and the allied food sectors are not immune to this slowdown. The pandemic has caused vast uncertainties in demand and disrupted the agri-food sector (Cappelli and Cini, 2020) and it is a big challenge to keep AFSCs safe and secure (Hobbs, 2020). It has stressed the agricultural processes deprived of labour, affected the manufacturing capacity up, hoarding of food items causing bullwhip effects as well as the fragility of supply chains contributing to the overall economy in unforeseen ways. Transportation restrictions have resulted in an increased level of food wastage due to delays in food supply chains, particularly perishables. Furthermore, it is a challenge to meet customer demand for food given to prevailing situations arisen due to COVID-19 thus affecting overall food supply chain.

Agri-food industry needs unprecedented policy measures to manage the flow of produce throughout supply chain, particularly in such pandemics. Somehow, if the farm produce still manages to complete its journey from the farm to the food processing industry, still there are many challenges (Larue, 2020). The packaging industry is also reporting a decline because of customer’s evasion to accept ready to eat food packets soft drinks. Transportation restrictions primarily affects the small and marginal agri-food businesses. The farmers in the business of perishables are also facing the consequences due to drops in demand and export instability. The health of dairy animals as well as the quality of dairy products are also being hindered due to unavailability of appropriate equipment and facilities. Decreasing consumption of the meat and fish like non-vegetarian products due to infection fear has forced the slaughter businesses to be shut down (Mayurnikova et al., 2020; Mussel et al., 2020). The government agencies are suggesting to follow a single panacea tactic of social distancing to cope with these situations. But still, worrying and challenging questions are there that, what will happen if even a single farmworker gets affected? How will the chain break in such a situation? Although, till now the available stocks are being utilized. However, due to the disturbance in the farm, industrial processing, and the linking supply chain, there may be a stage of the recession and shortage of food supplies that will come after this disaster. A report of food and agriculture organization quoted by grain analysts indicates that ‘the problem is not the supply, but a behavioral change over food safety and security’ (UN News, 2020).

The disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are now threatening the food security of billions of people globally and the resulting threats to the supply chain have induced food distribution, higher demand, and food shortage issues (Zurayk, 2020). Thus, to overcome such challenges, the agri-food industry needs to manage its logistics, retail, manufacturing, ecommerce, food service, etc. activities with highly agile supply chains. Besides, the government, NGOs, and the food industry need partnering to speed up the procurement and manufacturing practices to cope with supply chain disturbances and market volatility. Although some businesses have been performing well in response to the disruptions via digital technology implementation, efficient logistics chain, and evolution of the business model. As the food safety is the major issue in agri food supply chain, the food industry must now emphasize the safety aspects and offer training regarding food hygiene ethics to eradicate the risk of containing food surfaces and food packaging materials (FAO, 2019; WHO, 2020). In this view, managing the agri-food industry including food procurement, processing and distribution, and catering have become priority industries and applied research is required to examine the impacts of COVID-19 on the AFSCs, considering the future crises, revealing weaknesses and opportunities of the sector. The current Special Issue (SI) attempts to report such questions and proposing a strategic AFSC system, planning models and tools and policy.

Subjects covered:

The following subjects connecting COVID-19 and AFSCs are welcome, but not restricted to:

• Competition modeling, forecasting and long-term strategies in food SMEs
• Dynamics of zoning the food harvesting, processing, supply, storage and distribution systems
• Factors attributing to market growth in the food safety testing industry
• Food safety management systems
• Operational costs, retail value chain and bullwhip effects in AFSCs
• Policy interventions and recommendations in AFSCs
• Price volatility, demand, hoarding and trade restrictions
• Restoring the production capacity in AFSCs post COVID-19
• Role of Internet-of-Things (IoT), self-adaptive optimization methods and artificial intelligence in AFSC decisions
• Planning methods toward resilient, environmental- and social-friendly AFSC and AF ecosystems
• Short food supply chains and local productions
• Technological innovations and emerging digital technologies affecting AFSCs
• Transportation & trade restrictions, inventory and freight issues
• Processing technologies for traceability in food supply chain and quality assurance systems
• Communicative packaging concepts in AFSCs
• Consumers behaviour for food safety and ethical issues during pandemics

Scope of Subjects:

The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented and once in a century situation that points towards the need to explore the issues that provide innovative solutions through empirical modeling approaches and their optimization and validation to improve AFSCs. The SI is aimed to get insights on how the managing of safe & hygiene practices, technological innovations, sustainable business policy along the optimization methods can help the agri-food industry to cope with the

pandemic and sustaining organizational & national economy. The issues may consist of supply chain network designing, modeling the demand and supply systems, transportation scheduling, distribution management, etc. in the agri-food sector (Stauffer et al., 2020). Further, the SI will conclude on the following points given the theme:

• Benefits of innovative supply chains and perspectives of coping with disruptions
• Selection and management of safe food processing technology
• Selection and management of safe, resilient and sustainable food networks
• Long-term impacts of COVID-19 on global AFSCs
• Implementation of emerging digital technologies to ensure food safety and improve productivity of AFSCs
• Preventive measures and steps in risk management systems
• Strategic positioning of major AFSC players post Covid-19

Thus, the special issue will be beneficial for the agri-food industry as well as for academia through exploring the research opportunities linked with different aspects of AFSCs. Prerequisite for Empirical Research: The studies should be focused on the link between the COVID-19 pandemic and the AFSCs and aimed at assessing the role of empirical models and information systems affecting food quality, safety, wastages, and demand/supply system are equally welcome. Authors are encouraged to implement empirical methodologies, exhaustive case-studies and proposing innovative solutions on how to build quick-recovery systems for agri-food business models globally. Authors wishing to submit papers to this special issue must ensure that their work offers insights into promoting innovative and sustainable AFSC practices and the research must include organizational strategy as a central part. The studies having a theoretical base but lacking the managerial implications as well as the review articles may not be considered for this special issue. The study should provide solid bases to come across the advanced fields of AFSCs for enhanced operational and technological innovations. The methodologies, including analytical modeling, simulation, operations management, quantitative and qualitative empirical studies, and multimethod articles with proper validation are especially welcome. This kind of reinforcement will help recover the AFSCs currently/after the conclusion of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Important dates (tentative):

The following important dates will guide the development of this SI:

• Full paper submission by: 30/09/2020
• First review outcome by: 30/11/2020
• First revised manuscript submission by: 30/12/2020
• Second review outcome by: 30/01/2021
• Second revised manuscript submission by: 28/02/2021
• Final decision outcome by: 30/03/2021

Papers will be subject to a rigorous review process under the supervision of the Guest Editors and Editor-in-Chief, and accepted papers will be published online before print publication. Regarding the submission guidelines and other details, authors should refer to the IJoL homepage.

Special Issue Guest Editors:

Dr. Rahul S Moris Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial & Production Engineering, specialized in Food Supply Chain Management. His research, particularly in agri-food sector, has appeared in many esteemed international journals & conferences, and Chapters/Books in CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, Springer, IGI Global, etc. His recent research focuses on Benchmarking, and Developing the framework to assess food supply chains. He has the exposure of executing R&C projects in manufacturing sector. He is also serving as the Managing Guest Editor, Operations Management Research: Advancing Practice through Theory journal (Springer Nature); Associate Editor, Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal (Taylor & Francis), Int. Journal of Supply & Operations Management (KU); Editorial Board Member, Journal of Dairy Science (Elsevier), Int. Journal of Lean Thinking (SU), etc., and reviewer of many international journals. His research interest includes operations management, food supply chain management, lean production, supply chain modeling, global manufacturing strategies, etc. He is the managing guest editor of this special issue.

Dr. Anupama Singhcurrently works as full Professor and Head of the Department of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat, India. She holds 27 years of vast research and teaching experience. She has published over 250 research articles, 6 Books/Chapters in various peer-reviewed international and national journals & conferences. She is recipient of Norman Borlaug Fellowship award by USDA and ICAR, National Fellow Award by ICAR Delhi, India, and numerous other recognitions, fellowships and awards at the international and national levels. She has the exposure of executing various R&D and Consultancy projects in the agri-food sector. She has guided 4 research at the doctorate level, over 28 research at the masters level, and 13 projects at the graduate level. Her research interest includes process & food engineering, food supply chains, analytical techniques in food technology, advances in food processing, biotechnological applications in food processing, etc.

Dr. Emel Aktasholds a Chair of Supply Chain Analytics at Cranfield School of Management, specialising in mathematical modelling for decision analysis in transport, retail, and manufacturing sectors. She was a co-investigator in U-TURN, a recently completed Horizon 2020 Project which focused on collaborative freight practices for urban distribution of food, specifically groceries purchased online. She was responsible for data collection, mathematical model building and solution as well as analysis of results.

Dr. Riccardo Accorsiis Senior Researcher and Assistant Professor at the University of Bologna’s Department of Industrial Engineering since 2015. He teaches classes on Industrial Logistics and Production Management and Optimisation. His research fields lie in operations management with particular focus on the food industry. His efforts are intended for developing decision-support models and tools to aid design, planning and optimisation of sustainable production and distribution systems for food and perishable products. Leading member of the Food & Wine Supply Chain Council (FWSCC), he was recipient of the 2018 Sustainability Young Investigator Award for the contribution to the advancement of food supply chain management as an important area in the field of sustainability. He has written numerous applied research papers on food supply chain operations (80 ISI/Wos/Scopus papers; H-index – 18 on Scopus) and has been involved in many funded research projects and consulting for industry. So far, he published the book Sustainable Food Supply Chains: Planning, Design, and Control through Interdisciplinary Methodologies (Academic Press Elsevier), and has served as Guest Editor for the Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Food Engineering and Sustainability.

Dr. Sunil Luthrais working at Government Polytechnic, Jhajjar, Haryana, India. He is also working as Honorary Research Fellow at Bradford School of Management, University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom. He has contributed over 180 research papers in international referred and national journals, and conferences at international and national level. He has an excellent research track record (over 310 cumulative research impact points; received more than 4,100 citations on Google Scholar; H-index – 32 on Google Scholar). He has received many Awards and Honours for the research and teaching. He is Guest Editor of many reputed journals such Journal of Cleaner Production, Technology Forecasting & Social Change, Production Planning & Control, Resources Policy, Resources, Conservation and Recycling and Annals of Operations Research etc. He is reviewing papers for more than 50 reputed journals. He is on editorial board of many reputed journals. He has published 7 books with reputed publishers such as CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC and New Age International Publisher (P) Ltd. etc. His research interests are: Productions & Operations Management; Sustainable Production and Consumption; Green/Sustainable/Circular Supply Chain Management (GSCM/SSCM/CSCM); Agri-food supply chains; Digitization in Supply Chain; Industry 4.0; Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Cities etc.

References:

Cappelli, A., & Cini, E. (2020). Will the COVID-19 pandemic make us reconsider the relevance of short food supply chains and local productions?. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 99, 566-567.

FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, & WHO. (2019). The state of food security and nutrition in the world (SOFI) 2019: Safeguarding against economic slowdowns and downturns. Rome: FAO. Retrieved from: https://www.wfp.org/publications/2019-statefood-security-and-nutrition-world-sofi-safeguarding-against-economic.

Hobbs, J. E. (2020). Food supply chains during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1-6, DOI: 10.1002/cjag.12237.

Larue, B. Labour issues and COVID‐19. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. Forthcoming, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12233.

Mayurnikova, L. A., Koksharov, A. A., & Krapiva, T. V. (2020). Food safety practices in catering during the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Foods and Raw Materials, 8(2), 197–203. DOI: http://doi.org/10.21603/2308-4057-2020-2-197-203.

Mussell, A., Bilyea, T., & Hedley, D. (2020). Agri-food supply chains and Covid-19: Balancing resilience and vulnerability. Independent Agri-Food Policy Note, Agri-Food Economic Systems, 1-6 (http://www.agrifoodecon.ca).

Stauffer, J. M., Pedraza-Martinez, A. J., Yan, L. L., & Van Wassenhove, L. N. (2018). Asset supply networks in humanitarian operations: A combined empirical-simulation approach. Journal of Operations Management, 63(1), 44-58.

UN News, Peace and Security, 3 April 2020. COVID-19: The global food supply chain is holding up, for now. Retrieved from: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/04/1061032.

World Health Organization (WHO). Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Situation report-108. May 7, 2020. Retrieved from: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situationreports/20200507covid-19-sitrep-108.pdf?sfvrsn=44cc8ed8_2.

Zurayk, R. (2020). Pandemic and Food Security. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(3), 1-5.

特刊征集论文：

COVID-19对农业食品供应链的影响：安全、技术、经济、政策（STEP）

特邀编辑：

• Dr. Rahul S Mor, 国家食品技术学院创业与管理学院食品工程系, 印度，索尼帕特(dr.rahulmor@gmail.com, rahul.mor@niftem.ac.in) [执行特邀编辑]

• Dr. Anupama Singh, 国家食品技术学院创业与管理学院食品工程系, 印度，索尼帕特(anupama.singh@niftem.ac.in)

• Dr. Emel Aktas, 克兰菲尔德大学克兰菲尔德管理学院, 克兰菲尔德, 英国(emel.aktas@cranfield.ac.uk)

• Dr. Riccardo Accorsi, 博洛尼亚大学工业工程系, 博洛尼亚, 意大利(riccardo.accorsi2@unibo.it)

• Dr. Sunil Luthra, 政府理工学院, 贾贾尔，哈里亚纳邦，印度(sunilluthra1977@gmail.com)

特刊概况：

今天，全球化增加了跨界贸易机会、各国经济的相互依存、高附加值和定制化产品的生产、包括农业食品部门在内的所有行业的商品、服务和技术的可及性。然而，在全球化的背景下，21世纪出现了各种各样的流行病，最近的冠状病毒病（COVID-19）严重影响了组织的经济技术结构，扰乱了全球的生活。由于COVID-19的传播，全国范围内的封锁迫使大多数发达国家和发展中国家停止经济发展。不分行业类型，它为大多数组织设计了安全、技术、经济和政策。将食品生产的运作与“农场到叉子”联系起来的农业食品供应链（AFSCs），农业、食品加工和相关食品部门也无法幸免。大流行造成了需求的巨大不确定性，并扰乱了农业食品部门（Cappelli和Cini，2020），保持AFSCs的安全和可靠是一个巨大的挑战（Hobbs，2020）。它强调了农业过程被剥夺了劳动力，影响了生产能力的提高，食品囤积导致牛鞭效应，以及供应链的脆弱性以不可预见的方式促进了整个经济。由于食品供应链，特别是易腐食品供应链的延误，运输限制导致了食品浪费水平的增加。此外，由于COVID-19的出现，满足消费者对食品的需求是一个挑战，从而影响到整个食品供应链。

农业食品工业需要前所未有的政策措施来管理整个供应链的农产品流通，特别是在这种流行病的情况下。不知何故，如果农产品仍然能够完成从农场到食品加工业的旅程，仍然存在许多挑战（Larue，2020）。包装行业也报告了下降，因为顾客逃避接受即食食品包装软饮料。运输限制主要影响小型和边缘农业食品企业。从事易腐食品生意的农民也面临着需求下降和出口不稳定的后果。由于缺乏适当的设备和设施，乳制品的质量和乳制品动物的健康也受到妨碍。由于对感染的恐惧，肉类和鱼类非素食产品的消费量减少，迫使屠宰企业被迫关闭（Mayurnikova等，2020；Mussel等，2020）。政府机构建议采取一种单一的策略，即保持社会距离，以应对这些情况。但是，仍然存在着令人担忧和挑战性的问题，即使是只有一个农场工人受到影响，会发生什么？在这种情况下，这条链条将如何断裂？不过，到目前为止，可用库存仍在利用中。然而，由于农场、工业加工和连接的供应链中断，这场灾难之后可能会出现一个经济衰退和食品供应短缺的阶段。粮食分析师援引粮农组织（food and agricultural organization）的一份报告指出，“问题不在于供应，而在于食品安全和保障方面的行为变化”（联合国新闻，2020）。

COVID-19流感大流行造成的破坏现在正威胁着全球数十亿人的粮食安全，由此对供应链造成的威胁导致了粮食分配、需求增加和粮食短缺问题（Zurayk，2020）。因此，为了克服这些挑战，农业食品工业需要以高度敏捷的供应链管理其物流、零售、制造、电子商务、食品服务等活动。此外，政府、非政府组织和食品工业需要合作，以加快采购和生产实践，以应对供应链中断和市场波动。尽管一些企业通过数字技术的实施、高效的物流链和商业模式的演变，在应对中断方面表现良好。由于食品安全是农业食品供应链中的主要问题，食品工业现在必须强调安全方面，并提供有关食品卫生伦理的培训，以消除包含食品表面和食品包装材料的风险（粮农组织，2019；世卫组织，2020）。因此，管理农业食品行业，包括食品采购、加工和配送以及餐饮业已成为优先行业，需要进行应用研究，以检验COVID-19对AFSCs的影响，同时考虑到未来的危机，揭示该行业的弱点和机遇。本期特刊（SI）试图报道这些问题，并提出战略AFSC系统、规划模型、工具和政策。

涉及主题：

以下连接COVID-19和AFSCs的主题是受欢迎的，但不限于：

• 食品中小企业的竞争建模、预测和长期战略
• 粮食收获、加工、供应、储存和分配系统的分区动态
• 食品安全检测行业市场增长的因素分析
• 食品安全管理制度
• AFSCs的运营成本、零售价值链与牛鞭效应
• AFSCs的政策干预和建议
• 价格波动、需求、囤积和贸易限制
• 恢复AFSCs在COVID-19后的生产能力
• 物联网、自适应优化方法和人工智能在AFSC决策中的作用
• 有弹性、环境友好和社会友好的AFSC和AF生态系统的规划方法
• 短食品供应链和本地生产
• 影响AFSCs的技术创新和新兴数字技术
• 运输和贸易限制、库存和货运问题
• 食品供应链和质量保证体系中可追溯性处理技术
• AFSCs中的交流包装概念
• 大流行期间消费者的食品安全行为与伦理问题

主题范围：

COVID-19大流行是前所未有的，也是百年一遇的情况，这表明有必要探索通过实证建模方法及其优化和验证来提供创新解决方案的问题，以改进AFSCs。本期特刊旨在了解安全卫生实践管理、技术创新、可持续经营政策以及优化方法如何帮助农业食品工业应对大流行和维持组织和国民经济。这些问题可能包括农业食品行业的供应链网络设计、需求和供应系统建模、运输调度、配送管理等（Stauffer等，2020）。此外，鉴于给定的主题，该特刊将总结以下几点：

• 创新供应链的好处和应对中断的观点
• 安全食品加工技术的选择与管理
• 选择和管理安全、有弹性和可持续的食品网络
• COVID-19对全球AFSCs的长期影响
• 实施新兴数字技术，确保食品安全，提高AFSCs的生产力
• 风险管理体系中的预防措施和步骤
• Covid-19后AFSC主要参与者的战略定位

因此，本特刊将有助于农业食品工业和学术界通过探索与农业食品供应链不同方面相关的研究机会。实证研究的先决条件：研究应侧重于COVID-19大流行与AFSCs之间的联系，旨在评估影响食品质量、安全、浪费和需求/供应系统的实证模型和信息系统的作用的研究都受欢迎。作者被鼓励使用实证方法，详尽的案例研究，并就如何建立全球农业食品商业模式的快速恢复系统提出创新的解决方案。希望向这一特别问题提交论文的作者必须确保他们的工作提供了促进创新和可持续的AFSC实践的见解，研究必须包括组织战略作为核心部分。有理论基础但缺乏管理学意义的研究以及综述性文章可能不被考虑此特刊。这项研究将为深入了解AFSCs的先进领域，加强业务和技术创新提供坚实的基础。方法论，包括分析建模，仿真，运作管理，定量和定性的实证研究，以及有适当的验证的多方法的文章是特别受欢迎的。这种强化将有助于在COVID-19大流行结束后恢复AFSCs。

重要日期（暂定）：

以下重要日期将指导本特刊：

• 论文全文提交时间：2020年9月30日
• 第一次审查结果：2020年11月30日
• 第一次修改稿提交时间：2020年12月30日
• 第二次审查结果：2021年1月30日
• 第二次修订稿提交时间：2021年2月28日
• 最终决策结果：2021年3月30日

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特刊特邀编辑：

Dr. Rahul S Mor是印度国家食品技术创业与管理学院食品工程系助理教授。他拥有工业与生产工程博士学位，专攻食品供应链管理。他的研究，特别是在农业食品领域，已经出现在许多受人尊敬的国际期刊和会议上，以及CRC出版社、Taylor&Francis、Springer、IGI Global等的章节/书籍上。他最近的研究集中在对标和开发评估食品供应链的框架上。他有在制造业执行研发项目的经验。他还担任《运营管理研究：通过理论期刊推进实践》（Springer Nature）的执行特邀编辑；供应链论坛副主编：国际期刊（Taylor&Francis）、国际供应与运营管理杂志（KU）；乳品科学杂志（Elsevier）、国际精益思维杂志（SU）等编辑委员会成员，多家国际期刊审稿人。他的研究兴趣包括运营管理、食品供应链管理、精益生产、供应链建模、全球制造战略等。他是本期特刊的执行特邀编辑。

Dr. Anupama Singh目前担任印度索尼帕特国家食品技术创业与管理学院的全职教授和食品工程系主任。她拥有27年丰富的研究和教学经验。她在各种同行评议的国际和国内期刊和会议上发表了超过250篇研究文章，6本书/章。她获得了美国农业部和ICAR颁发的诺曼·博洛格奖学金、印度德里ICAR颁发的国家研究员奖，以及许多其他国际和国家级别的认可、研究金和奖项。她有在农业食品领域执行各种研发和咨询项目的经验。她指导了4项博士级研究，28项硕士研究，13项研究生项目。她的研究方向包括过程与食品工程、食品供应链、食品技术分析技术、食品加工的进展、生物技术在食品加工中的应用等。

Dr. Emel Aktas在克兰菲尔德管理学院担任供应链分析学教授，专攻运输、零售和制造业的决策分析数学模型。她是U-TURN的联合研究员，最近完成的Horizon 2020 Project， 该项目专注于城市食品配送的合作货运实践，特别是在线购买的食品杂货。她负责数据收集、数学模型建立和求解以及结果分析。

Dr. Riccardo Accorsi自2015年起担任博洛尼亚大学工业工程系高级研究员和助理教授。他教授工业物流、生产管理和优化课程。他的研究领域是经营管理，特别是食品工业。他的工作旨在开发决策支持模型和工具，以帮助设计、规划和优化食品和易腐产品的可持续生产和配送系统。作为食品和葡萄酒供应链委员会（FWSCC）的主要成员，他获得了2018年可持续性青年调查员奖，以表彰他对食品供应链管理作为可持续性领域的一个重要领域所做的贡献。他撰写了大量关于食品供应链运作的应用研究论文（80篇ISI/Wos/Scopus论文；Scopus上H-index–18），并参与了许多受资助的研究项目和行业咨询。迄今为止，他出版了《可持续食品供应链：通过跨学科方法进行规划、设计和控制》（学术出版社爱思唯尔），并担任《清洁生产杂志》、《食品工程和可持续发展杂志》的特邀编辑。

Dr. Sunil Luthra在印度哈里亚纳贾贾尔的政府理工学院工作。他还担任英国布拉德福德大学布拉德福德管理学院名誉研究员。他在国际参考期刊和国内期刊以及国际和国家级会议上发表了180多篇研究论文。他有着出色的研究记录（累计超过310个研究影响点；在Google Scholar上获得4100多个引用；在Google Scholar上获得了32个H-index）。他在研究和教学方面获得了许多奖项和荣誉。他是《清洁生产杂志》、《技术预测与社会变革》、《生产计划与控制》、《资源政策》、《资源、保护与循环利用》、《运筹学年鉴》等多家知名期刊的特邀编辑，为50多家知名期刊撰写论文。他是许多著名期刊的编辑委员会成员。与CRC出版社、Taylor&Francis Group，LLC和New Age International Publisher（P）Ltd.等知名出版社出版了7本书，主要研究方向：生产运营管理；可持续生产与消费；绿色/可持续/循环供应链管理（GSCM/SSCM/CSCM）；农业食品供应链；供应链数字化；工业4.0；物联网、智慧城市等。

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