Reflection on Stepping out of Our Comfort Zones in India
Reflection on Stepping out of Our Comfort Zones in India By Rachael Jensen and Annie Stasaitis, College of Business Supply Chain Management students The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. As our trip comes to a close, we now have time to reflect […]
Other Localized Supply Chains: Observations from an Auto Plant Tour
Other Localized Supply Chains: Observations from an Auto Plant Tour By Daniel Bodemer and Cody Williams, Supply Chain Management students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. We spent the first six days of our trip […]
What We Found Different about Farming Systems in North versus South India
What We Found Different about Farming Systems in North versus South India By Joel Hood and Abby Sugar, Supply Chain Management students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. Today, the SCM group had the opportunity […]
Commissioner Commentary: Discovering the Roles of the Middleman
Commissioner Commentary: Discovering the Roles of the Middleman By Katie Janson and Elayna Kramer, Supply Chain Management students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. While interviewing the farmers in Chennai, we kept hearing about a […]
What Seeing a World Wonder was Like on Our First International Trip
Commissioner Commentary: Discovering the Roles of the Middleman By John Mueller and John Pease, Supply Chain Management students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. When we hopped on the bus for the fifth day of this […]
Contrasts in India, Day 4
Contrasts in India, Day 4 By Mary Happ, senior in Crop Science, and Cruz Xu, sophomore in Supply Chain Management, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The following post was written by students on an ADM Institute-sponsored observation study tour through India in March 2015. Stepping off the domestic flight to New Delhi, it was clear […]
Biosensing for Advancing Quality of Agricultural Produce in Bangladesh
Biosensing for Advancing Quality of Agricultural Produce in Bangladesh By Md. Abdul Momin, Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh This post is part of the ADM Institute’s #PreventPHL blog campaign, following up on the First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention. To read more posts in the series, click here. Firstly, I am truly grateful […]
Paddy drying in Bangladesh: learning better practices to prevent drying losses
Paddy drying in Bangladesh: learning better practices to prevent drying losses By Chayan Kumer Saha, Professor, Bangladesh Agricultural University; and Principal Investigator, drying component, USAID Postharvest Loss Reduction Innovation Lab (PHLIL), Bangladesh This post is part of the ADM Institute’s #PreventPHL blog campaign, following up on the First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention. To read […]
Bringing global expertise to solve local issues in postharvest losses?
Bringing global expertise to solve local issues in postharvest losses? By Smael Alaoui, PLANTAE, Morocco and Malika Bounfour, ONSSA, Morocco This post is part of the ADM Institute’s #PreventPHL blog campaign, following up on the First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention. To read more posts in the series, click here. Our participation to the congress allowed us […]
Postharvest loss prevention of horticultural crops for enhancing food security in Malawi
Postharvest loss prevention of horticultural crops for enhancing food security in Malawi By Jacinta Nyaika, lecturer, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources-Bunda Campus, Malawi This post is part of the ADM Institute’s #PreventPHL blog campaign, following up on the First International Congress on Postharvest Loss Prevention. To read more posts in the series, click here. The Department […]