This book focuses on three essential elements of agricultural supply chains: Planting and Growing, Processing and Selling, and Government Interventions. For decades, most agricultural economists applied macro-economic theory in decisions pertaining to the optimization of food production and distribution. However, examining challenges in agricultural supply chain operations through the lens of micro-economic theory by considering how individual farmers and food processors respond to changes in market conditions is imperative because it can enable policymakers and social enterprises to develop and design market information provision policy, incentive contracts and market structures for improving farmer, processor, and consumer welfare.

In each chapter, contributing authors motivate their research questions by providing the context and articulating the importance of their questions. They present their analysis to examine the respective research questions and explain their results. At the end of each chapter, they provide a short list of future research questions.

"The authors of this book showed us how, through the use of information technology, appropriate government intervention, public-private sector partnerships, and the application of digital smartness, innovations can occur and great potentials can be realized." Hau Lee, Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

"Food security, supply and sustainability is and will be a defining global issue in the decades to come... It is essential reading for policy makers, practitioners and scholars interested in understanding and tackling the critical challenge of ensuring a sustainable food supply." Brian Tomlin, Josephine Buchanan Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College

"A perfect example of how academic research benefits the private sector... The wine industry will benefit from this insightful use of data for the entire supply chain." Steven Becker, Executive Vice President and Treasurer, Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits "This book is an invaluable reference for global policy makers, developmental organizations, and industry leaders seeking to transform the food system to be more sustainable, nutritious and equitable." Emily Ma, Head, Food for Good, Google

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Onur Boyabatli is an Associate Professor of Operations Management and the holder of DBS Sustainability Fellow at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He is the Chair of the iFORM (Interface of Finance, Operations and Risk Management) Special Interest Group in the MSOM society. His research interests include socially-responsible supply chains, supply chain risk management, agricultural operations and supply chain finance. He is the co-editor of Handbook of Integrated Risk Management in Global Supply Chains (2011, Wiley).

Burak Kazaz is the Steven Becker Professor of Supply Chain Management and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management. He is the Executive Vice President and President Elect of the MSOM Society, and serves as the Director of the Brethen Institute at Syracuse University. Dr. Kazaz's research interests include risk mitigation, supply chain finance, and socially-responsible supply chains.

Christopher S. Tang is a UCLA Distinguished Professor and the holder of the Edward W. Carter Chair in Business Administration. His research interests include Supply Chain Risk Management and Socially Responsible Supply Chains.

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Part A: Planting and Growing.- Chapter 1: Dynamic Crop Allocation in the Presence of Two-Season Crop Rotation Benefits.- Chapter 2: Agricultural Production Planning under Yield-Dependent Cost and Price.- Chapter 3: Mechanisms for Effective Sharing of Agricultural Water Between Head-Reach and Tail-End Farms.- Chapter 4: Portfolio Management Issues in the Commercial Seed Industry: A Modeling Framework and Industry Implementation.- Part B: Processing and Selling.- Chapter 5: Procurement Management in Agricultural Commodity Processing.- Chapter 6: The Influence of Yield-Dependent Trading Costs on Pricing and Production Planning under Supply Uncertainty.- Chapter 7: Capacity Management in Agricultural Commodity Processing.- Chapter 8: A Prescriptive Model for Selling Wine Futures to Mitigate Quality Uncertainty.- Chapter 9: Wine Analytics: Futures or Bottles.- Part C: Government Interventions.- Chapter 10: Implications of Farmer Information Provision Policies: Heterogeneous Farmers and Market Selection.- Chapter 11: Agricultural Market Information: Economic Value and Provision Policy.- Chapter 12: Knowledge Sharing among Smallholders in Developing Economies.- Chapter 13: Policy Interventions for an Agriculture-Based Malaria Medicine Supply Chain.- Chapter 14: The Impact of Crop Minimum Support Price on Crop Production and Farmer Welfare.- Chapter 15: Input- vs. Output-Based Farm Subsidies in Developing Economies: Farmer Welfare and Income Inequality.