Improving Food Bank Gleaning Operations: An Application in New York State

American Journal of Agricultural Economics

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 549-563

  Sönmez, Erkut ^a   Lee, Deishin ^a   Gómez, Miguel I ^b   Fan, Xiaoli ^b  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity planning; food bank operations; gleaning; stochastic optimization

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; STOCHASTICITY; VOLUNTARY APPROACH;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84966330207     PISSN: 00029092     EISSN: 14678276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aav069     Document Type: Article

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