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

• Main Author: XU, Jiahui
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: supply chain; farm; agriculture; Agricultural Economics; Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/etd_coll/284; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1289&context=etd_coll
• Institution: 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...