
Darian PearceGhent University | UGhent · Department of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics
Darian Pearce
PhD Applied Operations Management
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This paper aims to understand the relationship between patterns of lean practice implementation, farm size and sustainable performance among fruit horticultural primary producers in South Africa. Utilizing a comprehensive lean framework, addressing 10 lean practice dimensions, the authors collected data from a sample of 132 fruit farming operations...
This case study is intended to contextualize and delineate a process for the development of heritage exemption areas. This case has been developed to support the adoption of this approach, as a means of unlocking latent development potential in and around urban districts with little to no heritage worthy resources presented within their boundaries....
The growing burden of food losses has intensified the need for reliable and comparable data. This study extends the application of lean manufacturing practices and uses Value Stream Mapping (VSM) analysis with the Food Loss and Waste (FLW) Accounting and Reporting Standard to identify hotspots and analyze the magnitude of both food and nutritional...
This study investigates the determining factors that drive sustainable performance through the application of lean methods in the primary production segment of the horticultural supply chain for apples and pears. The determining factors, identified through a systematic review of the available literature, are thematically synthesized, conceptually f...
The interest to reduce food losses and wastes has grown considerably in order to guarantee adequate food for the fast growing population. A systematic review was used to show the potential of Value Stream Mapping (VSM) not only to identify and reduce food losses and wastes, but also as a way to establish links with nutrient retention in supply chai...
The Mzimvubu Catchment, one of the poorest regions in South Africa, possesses untapped economic potential in the form its abundant water resources. The greater Transkei is the region in South Africa with the highest average rainfall and is host to the bulk of South Africa’s untapped water, a rare commodity in an otherwise resource abundant nation....
It is widely acknowledged that hygienic sanitation is necessary to sustain human life and to ensure good health and human dignity. As a result, the South African Government has committed itself to universal access to sanitation. As part of this commitment, poor households1 are provided various sanitation subsidies to gain access to a basic level of...
Contingent valuation study, linking citizen willingness-to-pay to the provision of public sector groundwater protection and management services.