Too good to eat? Cosmetic standards and waste in agricultural supply chain

• المؤلف الرئيسي: XU, Jiahui
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• الموضوعات: supply chain; farm; agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/284; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1289&context=etd_coll
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

There is a significant amount of food wasted at the farm level due to high cosmetic standards adopted by retailers. We examine the economic incentives for retailers to adopt such high cosmetic standards and their impact on food loss. We build a sequential game between a retailer and a farmer, where...