×B5. Sustainable and resilient agrifood value chains

A succession of shocks to both demand and supply over the last decade has challenged agri-food supply chains. These shocks are in many cases associated with broader trends such as climate change, expanded biosecurity threats, more fickle consumer demand, changes in labour mobility, and a concentrated retail environment. Together they have created an increasing interest in supporting resilient supply chains. In this regard, modeling and simulations are a crucial method to strategically plan for food system transformation and resilience. They can aid the design of sustainable outcomes, increase food security and reduce the vulnerability of value chains.

This session invites papers that connect conceptual models and simulation studies that are based on principles of sustainability and resilience with specific application to agrifood industries, particularly those that are related to:

• Modeling the propagation of environmental variability risks within food systems
• Decision support tools for planning resilient food supply chains
• Designing resilient/sustainable food supply chains
• Modeling the effectiveness of strategies to increase resilience and mitigate risks in food supply chains
• Exploring global food system shocks, scenarios and outcomes used to improve the production and profitability of an agricultural industry
• Modelling and understanding the transformability and the adaptiveness of agrifood systems
• Empirical research to parameterise these models.

Key topics: Resilient food systems, Value chain, Sustainable behaviour, Capacity for adaptation