Includes bibliographical references and index.

Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides an up-to-date and interdisciplinary framework for designing and operating sustainable supply chains for agri-food products. Focus is given to decision-making procedures and methodologies enabling policy-makers, managers and practitioners to design and manage effectively sustainable agrifood supply chain networks. Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Food Networks provides a useful resource for researchers, practitioners, policy-makers, regulators and C-level executives that deal with strategic decision-making. Post-graduate students in the field of agriculture sciences, engineering, operations management, logistics and supply chain management will also benefit from this book.

1.Sustainable Agrifood Supply Chain Management 2.Precision Agriculture: Crop Management for Improved Productivity and Reduced Environmental Impact or Improved Sustainability 3.Agricultural Waste Biomass 4.Maintaining Momentum: Drivers of Environmental and Economic Performance, and Impediments to Sustainability 5.A Hierarchical Decision-Making Framework for Quantitative Green Supply Chain Management: A Critical Synthesis of Academic Research Efforts 6.Safety and Traceability 7.Information Technology for Food Supply Chains 8.Carbon Footprint Management for Food Supply Chains: an Integrated Decision Support System 9.Quality Management Schemes and Connections to the Concept of Sustainability in the Food Chain 10.Risk Management for Agri-food Supply Chains 11.Regulatory Policies and Trends.