Challenges and Opportunities of Circular Economy in Agri-Food Sector

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Circular Economy in the Agri-Food Sector: An Introduction

   • Rahul S Mor, Anupama Panghal, Vikas Kumar

   Pages 1-14

3. Mapping Facets of Circularity: Going Beyond Reduce, Reuse, Recycle in Agri-Food Supply Chains

   • Jelena V. Vlajic, Eoin Cunningham, Hsin-I Hsiao, Beatrice Smyth, Tim Walker

   Pages 15-40

4. A Conceptual Framework for Food Loss and Waste in Agri-Food Supply Chains: Circular Economy Perspective

   • Yaşanur Kayıkcı, Nazlıcan Gözaçan, Çisem Lafcı, Yiğit Kazançoğlu

   Pages 41-53

5. Circular Economy in Agri-Food Sector: Food Waste Management Perspective

   • Umair Tanveer, Shamaila Ishaq, Andrew Gough

   Pages 55-75

6. Sustainable Food Value Chains and Circular Economy

   • Simmi Ranjan Kumar, Saugat Prajapati, Jose V. Parambil

   Pages 77-92

7. Rethinking the Physical Losses Definition in Agri-Food Chains from Eco-Efficiency to Circular Economy

   • Ricardo Alberto Cravero, María de las Mercedes Capobianco-Uriarte, María del Pilar Casado-Belmonte

   Pages 93-117

8. Can CE Reduce Food Wastage? A Proposed Framework

   • Rohini Sharma, Anjali Shishodia, Tavishi Tewary, Rohit Sharma

   Pages 119-132

9. Modeling the Causes of Post-harvest Loss in the Agri-Food Supply Chain to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals: An ISM Approach

   • Mukesh Kumar, Vikas Kumar Choubey

   Pages 133-149

10. From the Vine to the Bottle: How Circular is the Wine Sector? A Glance Over Waste

    • Patricia Calicchio Berardi, Luciana Stocco Betiol, Joana Maia Dias

    Pages 151-175

11. Carbon Footprint of Raw Milk and Other Dairy Products

    • Rishabh Sahu, Tripti Agarwal

    Pages 177-189

12. Valorization of By-Products from Food Processing Through Sustainable Green Approaches

    • Deepak Kumar, Md. Shamim, Santosh K. Arya, Mohammad Wasim Siddiqui, Deepti Srivastava, Shilpa Sindhu

    Pages 191-226

13. Applying Circular Economy Principles to Agriculture: Selected Case Studies from the Indian Context

    • Vaibhav Aggarwal, Ritika Mahajan

    Pages 227-243

14. Transition Toward a Circular Economy Through Surplus Food Management

    • Anuj Mittal, Caroline C. Krejci, Michi Lopez, Jake Kundert, Carter Oswood, Jason Grimm

    Pages 245-260

Global population by 2050 is predicted to be over 9 billion and accordingly, the production systems will demolish about 140 billion tons per year of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass, i.e., thrice of the current need, and the food production itself has to be doubled. Optimized resource usage, lifecycle management, and reduced carbon emission have become a priority for agri-food businesses today, and circular economy (CE) helps for a sustainable and flexible way to grow without exhausting primary materials, and it thinks beyond recycling and resource usage. The word CE best relates to the resource and efficiency management, 6Rs, closed-loop production systems, zero waste and lifecycle engineering, reduced overconsumption of resources and waste generation, enriched system redesign and business model innovation, thereby leading to sustainable development goals. In this light, the book calls for theoretical and empirically sound contributions that are focused on the different aspects of the circular economy, 6R’s, sustainable production and consumption, closed-loop systems, etc. in the agri-food sector.

• Agri-Food Sector
• Circular Economy and Sustainability
• Environmental Footprints and Eco-design
• Lifecycle Engineering and Zero Waste
• Digital Transformation and Innovation
• SWOT Analysis
• Supply Chain Modelling
• Climate Change Policy and Adaptation
• Future Eco-Factory
• 6Rs (Reuse Recycle Redesign Remanufacture Reduce and Recover)
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems
• Sustainable Production and Consumption

• Department of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Kundli, Sonepat, India

  Rahul S Mor

• Department of Food Business Management and Entrepreneurship Development, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM), Kundli, Sonepat, India

  Anupama Panghal

• Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

  Vikas Kumar

Dr. Rahul S Mor is a researcher of operational design & development, agri-food supply chain, manufacturing strategies, etc., and works as Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Food Engineering, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, Sonepat, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Production Engineering, specializing in Supply Chain & Operations Analytics. He has authored/co-authored over 50 publications in international refereed SCI, ABDC, ABS ranked journals of high impact factor and Chapters & Conference papers with Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, IGI Global, etc. His recent research focuses on ‘Managing supply chain disruptions, Benchmarking, Performance measurement, Digital technologies, etc. He has the exposure of executing R&C projects in the manufacturing and food sector.
Dr. Mor is the Area Editor and Managing Guest Editor: Operations Management Research (Springer Nature), Int. J. Logistics Research & Applications (Taylor & Francis); Guest Editor: IEEE Trans. on Engg. Mgmt. (IEEE); Associate Editor: Supply Chain Forum: An Int. J. (Taylor & Francis); Editor: Int. J. Supply & Opr. Mgmt. (KU); Editorial Board: J. Dairy Science (Elsevier), FSFS, IJCEWM, IJLT, etc., and reviewer of many international journals. Currently, Dr. Mor is editing various books on ‘Agri-Food 4.0, ‘Circular Economy’, ‘OSCM in Food Industry’, ‘Industry 4.0’ with Springer, Emerald, EAI-Springer. He is a member of many professional societies. 

Dr. Anupama Panghal is Assistant Professor at the Dept of Food Business Management & Entrepreneurship Development, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Kundli, Sonipat, India. Prior to that she has worked  with Thapar University, Patiala, India, and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India, New Delhi. She was also selected byGoI, under the Faculty Secondment Scheme of MHRD, as a visiting professor for the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, for the semester of January 2020. Her academic specialisation is agriculture business management and currently her research interests are in the domain of agri-food supply chain management, technology inclusion in agri-food value chains and agri-food entrepreneurship management. She has authored books, more than 20 research papers in reputed journals, which include Scopus and ABDC indexed ones. Also, she has contributed chapters in the edited books. She has deep interest in carrying out research and consultancy projects in the areas of agri-food supply chain and agri-food entrepreneurship. Currently, she is working on one project funded by MoFPI on "Development of blockchain based traceability solution for agri-food supply chains" and another one on " Promotion of local food entrepreneurship and value chain development". She is also a master trainerfor trainers under the PMFME scheme of MoFPI for the domain of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) for agri-food entrepreneurs. For her work in past 15 years, she has traveled to Australia, Cambodia, Netherlands, Belgium, and Thailand. 

Prof. Vikas Kumar is a Director of Research and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Bristol Business School, University of the West of England, UK. He is also a visiting Professor at Tong Duc Trang University, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. He holds a PhD in Mgmt. Studies from the University of Exeter, UK. He serves on the editorial board of several international journals including J. of Business Logistics (Q1), Sustainability (Q1), and Int. J. of Mathematical, Engineering and Management (Q3). He has guest-edited a number of special issues in high impact journals including Int. J. of Production Research, J. of Info. Tech., Supply Chain Mgmt. an Int. J., Production, Planning & Control, Int. J. of Productivityand Performance Mgmt., and J. of Mfg. Tech. Mgmt. He is also a reviewer of more than 15 int. journals including ABS 4/4* and ABS 3* journals such as Int. J Production Research, Int. J of Production Economics, Production Planning and Control, Supply Chain Mgmt. an Int. J, Expert Systems with Application, Int. J of Production and Operations Management, J of Intelligent Mfg. Systems and Computers and Industrial Engg. He has published 5 books and more than 2 0 0 articles in leading international journals and int. conf.
He has generated research income in the excess of £1 million from research agencies such as Innovate UK, EPSRC, British Council, British Academy, Newton Fund, and Science Foundation of Ireland. He is currently working on two research projects funded by the British Academy/Newton Fund and Royal Academy of Engg.

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