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Abstract
The worldwide demand for safe food is increased due to the population growth and the improvement of living standards. Different global standards are relevant in the food value chain including education and training of human resources, government regulations and surveillance. Different factors related to food safety risks in production can be taken into consideration in developing economies. Achieving food safety needs a highly integrated system in food supply and operations management. To meet demand for safe and higher quality food, food organisations especially in developing nations like Chile face numerous problematic issues. In terms of dynamic capabilities, this study takes account of supply chain re-conceptualisation, co-evolving and reflexive supply chain control. In this paper, we identify and prioritise key institutional and operational factors for improving the food safety in Chile. The factors were analysed using a Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for illustrating the significance of key criteria to food safety concepts under uncertain environment. We provides a detailed and prioritised criteria for improving food safety practices, helping managers to understand the operational and institutional environment and makes a contribution to inform food organisations and government policy-making to reduce food losses and improve sustainability of food chains under fuzzy situations.
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Haiyan Lu
Dr. Haiyan Lu is working in Shantou University Business School, China. She researches on sustainability practices in the food system in emerging economics. She works interdisciplinary to investigate multi-faceted issues in food supply chains at institutional, operational and cognitive levels, shedding the light on the discussions of food safety, traceability and food waste management. She adopts a mixed-method research approach to critically reflect and analyze evidence from theories, industries and polices, reproducing knowledge for making a positive impact on sustainable food practice in the real world. Funding acknowledgement: Shantou University Scientific Research Initiation Grant (STF19027).
Sachin Kumar Mangla
Dr Sachin Kumar Mangla is working as a Faculty of Knowledge Management and Business Decision Making, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. Dr Sachin is working in the field of Green and Sustainable Supply Chain and Operations; Industry 4.0; Circular Economy; Decision Making and Modelling. He is committed to do and promote high quality research. He has published/presented several papers in repute international/national journals (International Journal of Production Economics; International Journal of Production Research; Production Planning and Control; Business Strategy and the Environment; Journal of Cleaner Production; Annals of Operations Research; Transportation Research Part – D; Transportation Research Part – E; Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews; Resource Conservation and Recycling; Information System Frontier; Management Decision; International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications; Benchmarking an International Journal; Industrial Data and Management System; International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management) and conferences (POMS, SOMS, IIIE, CILT – LRN, GLOGIFT). He has an h-index 31, i10-index 60, Google Scholar Citations of more than 3000. He is involved in editing couple of Special issues as a Guest Editor in Production Planning & Control: The Management of Operations, and Resources, Recycling and Conservation, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Resource Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production, and ‘Technological Forecasting and Social Change’ on various issues of 'Industry 4 and Circular Economy' and Green and Sustainable Supply Chains Performance Improvement' and ‘Food Supply Chains’ ‘and ‘Industry 4.0, Cleaner Production, Circular Economy and Ethical Business Development’. Currently, he is also involved in several research projects on various issues and applications of Circular economy and Sustainability. Among them, he is responsible for knowledge based decision model in "Enhancing and implementing knowledge based ICT solutions within high risk and uncertain conditions for agriculture production systems (RUC-APS)", European Commission RISE scheme, €1.3M. Recently, he has also received a grant as a PI from British Council – Newton Fund Research Environment Links Turkey/UK – Circular and Industry 4.0 driven sustainable solutions for reducing food waste in supply chains in Turkey. He is also working with USERC (Uttarakhand Science Education & Research Centre), Govt of Uttarakhand, India for managing food waste in Circular Economy.
Jorge E. Hernandez
Dr. Jorge E. Hernandez is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) and module leader for Operations and Simulation Management and Business Analysis. This, by gathering current challenges, requirements and constraints from a variety of sector for which, Dr. Hernandez, is directly involved, such as Automotive Industry, HealthCare, and Agriculture. This is fully supported by the 15 years of successful professional experience before becoming an academic. As a researcher, he has been awarded, in 2016, with the ULMS researcher of the year award. In 2014, Universitat Politècnica de València conferred to him the extraordinary international award to the best Ph.D. Thesis dissertation. In 2009, he received a special award recognition in 2009 for his pioneering work on Collaborative Supply Chain Management on Reverse Logistics. His work can be found in more than 40 publications, covering International high rated Journals, Springer Books, Book Chapters and International Conferences and also through the supervision of Msc and Ph.D. Thesis. With more than 10 years of experience in running international and competitive research grants as Principal Investigator as well as Co-Investigator, currently he is the PI of a €1.3M H2020-MSCA-RISE project, RUC-APS: Enhancing and implementing Knowledge-based ICT solutions within high Risk and Uncertain Conditions for Agriculture Production Systems. This projects involve seven countries (UK, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Chile and Argentina), leading to international research and impact within an unprecedented innovative and multidisciplinary consortium cross faculty at the University of Liverpool Management School. He is also member of the recently created Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Food Systems. He is expert in modelling and simulation, skills highly required by industry from a variety of sectors. This makes him a genuine Operations Management expert, providing a relevant and unique contribution to the applied research and academia at the ULMS. The most of this work lead to him to get interested in the following areas Modelling and Simulation, MultiAgent System, Collaboration in the Supply Chain and Operational Research, within the main application to Manufacturing, Healthcare and Agribusiness industries.
Sebastian Elgueta
Sebastian Elgueta is a Researcher and Head of the Laboratory of Pesticide Residues and Environment at Agricultural Research Institute INIA, Centre La Platina Santiago-Chile where he has been working since 2016. As well, he is an Associated Professor at Faculty of Veterinarian and Agronomic Sciences at University Las Americas, Santiago-Chile since 2018. He obtained a BSc (2002), MSc (2009) and PhD (2013) in the field of environmental sciences at University La Frontera Chile and University Federico II Naples Italy. His research interests are related to pesticides residues in food, water and soil as well their impacts in the environment and human health. One of his main research is the health risk assessment due to pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables. He published over 20 scientific papers and chapter books in different editorial such as ScienceDirect, Springer, Taylor & Francis Group, MDPi. In his professional carrier he coordinated/collaborated in national and international projects dealing with chemical contaminations in the environment, food safety and management in the agri-food value chain, and spent >20 months at different eminent research and academic institutions in Europe. Currently, he works in the Horizon 2020 RUC-APS project. (1) Laboratory of Pesticide Residues and Environment, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIA Centro Regional La Platina, 8820000 Santiago, Chile. (2) Núcleo de Investigaciones Aplicadas en Ciencias Veterinarias y Agronómicas, Universidad de las Américas, Sede Providencia, 7500000 Santiago, Chile.
Guoqing Zhao
Guoqing Zhao is a PhD student at University of Plymouth, UK. He obtained his Master’s degree from Cardiff University, UK. His main research interests including knowledge management, agri-food supply chain resilience, and agri-food supply chain risks. He has published several research papers including those on high quality international journals such as Computers in Industry, Production Planning & Control, and International Journal of Sustainable Agricultural Management and Informatics. Currently, he works in the Horizon 2020 RUC-APS project.
Shaofeng Liu
Shaofeng Liu is Professor of Operations Management and Decision Making at Plymouth Business School in University of Plymouth. She obtained her PhD degree from Loughborough University, UK. She worked for Bath University and Strathclyde University in the UK and Hunan University in China before joining Plymouth. She has undertaken a great number of influential research projects funded by UK research councils and European Commission with a total value of over €40M. Through the cutting edge research over the last twenty years, she has steadily established her international reputation in the areas of knowledge management and decision making for business operations and supply chain management. She has published over 160 peer-reviewed research papers and the sole author for the book ‘Knowledge Management: An Interdisciplinary Approach for Business Decisions’. She is a regular keynote speaker at relevant international conferences. She sits on the Management Board for Euro Working Group on Decision Support Systems, an international professional society dedicated to decision making and support systems. She is the Associate Editor for International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (IJDSST) since 2015 and for Journal of Decision Systems (2013–2018). For more details, please refer to her professional website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/sliu1.
Lise Hunter
Dr Lise Hunter, Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management, University of Plymouth, UK. She started her career in the financial sector where she worked for 8 years with the African Development Bank. This was followed by a 10-year span with the Foreign and Commonwealth office where she managed trade and investment projects in French speaking West Africa as part of former UK Trade and Investment, now Department of International Trade. Following a move to Devon, she worked as a Management Consultant for SERCO delivering the European Regional Development Fund for SMEs under the Competitiveness programme. She joined Plymouth University Business School in August 2012. Her teaching interest includes Trade Operations, Shipping Finance, Management Research, Managerial Accounting and Decision Making. Her research interests cover Entrepreneurship and SMEs competitiveness particularly in the food sector, Entrepreneurship Education, Trade Facilitation and Trade Competitiveness. She has also published working papers on enabling trade, including a DFID policy paper on entrepreneurship education in eastern Africa. Her strong engagement with professional bodies and industry practitioners informs her pedagogic approach to teaching and enhancing students outcomes. She has led the development and delivery of two programmes designed for people in work. She is an advisor to the Business Forum South West and the Plymouth International Trade Club.