A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade
Global food trade is crucial for food security and availability. Trade is typically optimized to promote efficiency, whereas resilience is increasingly being recognized as another important objective. However, it is not clear if prioritizing resilience comes at the expense of efficiency or if the tw...
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| description | Global food trade is crucial for food security and availability. Trade is typically optimized to promote efficiency, whereas resilience is increasingly being recognized as another important objective. However, it is not clear if prioritizing resilience comes at the expense of efficiency or if the two objectives can be promoted simultaneously. We develop a complex network framework to assess the relationship between efficiency and resilience of food trade for the last half century. There is a competitive relationship between efficiency and resilience when only network topology is considered. However, a cooperative relationship between efficiency and resilience exists when the intensity of trade connections is accounted for. Policy makers can use this framework to evaluate the relationship between efficiency and resilience in critical supply chains. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5063cdf5c71d4800b35259be847ac7642023-08-09T15:03:51ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262021-01-01161010500310.1088/1748-9326/ac1a9bA complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food tradeDeniz Berfin Karakoc0Megan Konar1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0540-8438Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 205N Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, United States of AmericaDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 205N Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801, United States of AmericaGlobal food trade is crucial for food security and availability. Trade is typically optimized to promote efficiency, whereas resilience is increasingly being recognized as another important objective. However, it is not clear if prioritizing resilience comes at the expense of efficiency or if the two objectives can be promoted simultaneously. We develop a complex network framework to assess the relationship between efficiency and resilience of food trade for the last half century. There is a competitive relationship between efficiency and resilience when only network topology is considered. However, a cooperative relationship between efficiency and resilience exists when the intensity of trade connections is accounted for. Policy makers can use this framework to evaluate the relationship between efficiency and resilience in critical supply chains.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a9bfood tradenetworksefficiencyresiliencetrade-off |
| spellingShingle | Deniz Berfin Karakoc Megan Konar A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade Environmental Research Letters food trade networks efficiency resilience trade-off |
| title | A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade |
| title_full | A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade |
| title_fullStr | A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade |
| title_full_unstemmed | A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade |
| title_short | A complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade-off in global food trade |
| title_sort | complex network framework for the efficiency and resilience trade off in global food trade |
| topic | food trade networks efficiency resilience trade-off |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1a9b |
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