Description: Sustaining the global agriculture supply chain ensures food security, economic stability, and environmental health in an interconnected world. As the global population grows and climate change becomes a new challenge, the agricultural sector must adapt to meet rising demand while minimizing environmental impact. This requires innovative solutions to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and promote sustainable farming practices across all levels of the supply chain, from production to distribution. By utilizing advanced technologies, ensuring collaboration, and implementing policies that prioritize environmental sustainability and social responsibility, organizations can build resilient and sustainable agricultural supply chains. Sustaining the Global Agriculture Supply Chain explores innovative solutions and best practices for advancing toward sustainable agriculture supply chains. It provides perspectives from professionals in various sectors and functional levels, from quality inputs to post-harvest management, storage, and processing. This book covers topics such as farming, quality assurance, and value chains, and is a useful resource for agriculturalists, farmers, business owners, environmental scientists, researchers, and academicians.
Brief description: V.G.Venkatesh is a corporate practitioner/ an academic specializing in Supply Chain Management and Logistics domain with versatile experience and background. He is a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) from APICS-USA and having International industry experience from Honduras, Sri Lanka, USA, Hong Kong and Bangladesh in international supply chain practices. He has over 17 years of experience from Industry and academics. His background is supported by Masters in Manufacturing Management from BITS-Pilani and MFTech from National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT), India and a qualified trainer in the commonwealth countries with PGCert Higher Education from NTU (UK) and He is also the visiting faculty for Auckland University of Technology - MBA and Professional master's programs for operations pathway courses.Professional Associations: Institute of Supply Management (ISM-USA) Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT-UK) - Life Time member American Production and Inventory control society (APICS- USA)International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA)