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Food commodity supply chains at risk?

Have the prices gone up at your local supermarket recently? Maybe your favorite chocolate is suddenly a lot more expensive? Do you wonder why? You may not think much about it, but the bigger picture that lays behind is grim-looking, to say the least.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Supply Chain Security Management
Security concerns are an issue that has gained increased importance in supply chains. While accident[...]
Infrastructure Vulnerability
This is a paper that has been collecting dust in my articles archive for quite a while, but it is in[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis
This book, Cost Benefit Analysis: Concepts and Practice (3rd Edition), by Anthony Boardman et al. is[...]
Book Review: Procurement Risk
"Do yo like living dangerously? Then you should read this book. It exposes you to over seventy types[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Risk management - Vocabulary
What is risk management in supply chains? The more I study supply chain risk management, the more co[...]
When disaster strikes...
...how does the transportation network recover? And why are transportation networks so essential to [...]
from HERE and THERE
Why we need to think the unthinkable
Immediately after September 11, 2001, "critical infrastructure" and "vulnerability" seemed to be the[...]
The European Supply Chain & Logistics Summit
In the current financial downturn what should be - or what will be - on the mind of supply chain and[...]