IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/lnechp/978-3-319-09578-3_19.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Evaluating Scenarios for Upgrading Sustainability of the Meat Supply Chain

In: Advances in Artificial Economics

Author

Listed:
  • Eva Broek

    (LEI Wageningen UR)

  • Tim Verwaart

    (LEI Wageningen UR)

Abstract

This paper proposes a multi-agent simulation that incorporates the characteristics of pork supply chain actors. The purpose is to support policy makers and supply chain actors in designing long term strategies towards sustainability. The agents represent diverse types of producers, consumers and intermediate supply chain actors. Through brand positioning, societal pressure and opinion dynamics, patterns of sustainable meat production and distribution emerge. The model is applied in four realistic scenarios, implementing business models and interventions grounded in empirical research on meat supply chains. Outcomes differ greatly across scenarios with respect to consumption of sustainable meat and producer welfare. The market oriented scenarios result in a faster transition towards sustainability. The simulation offers insights into the effects of interactions between consumer demand, societal pressure, brand positioning, and investments by producers.

Suggested Citation

  • Eva Broek & Tim Verwaart, 2015. "Evaluating Scenarios for Upgrading Sustainability of the Meat Supply Chain," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Frédéric Amblard & Francisco J. Miguel & Adrien Blanchet & Benoit Gaudou (ed.), Advances in Artificial Economics, edition 127, pages 231-243, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-319-09578-3_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-09578-3_19
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-319-09578-3_19. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.