June 30th Meeting¶

Attending: Viki, Abie, Tim, Hector

Agenda¶

We need to define “measurable outcomes”, and identify 3 components on each:

What to do
Who will do it
How to make sure it’s done (accountability)

Wants¶

Viki: Economic components, network social relationship component, and especially transaction cost analysis component

Abie: Build experience working on applied projects like this

Tim: Grow Growing Washington

cases per mile
value per delivery
grow the network
And develop transferable results

Hector: Contribute to solving a real problem
Combine models with data

WSU BioAg / CSANR – traditionally has been focused more on the farm side of farm production, this is a big chance to switch to the business system view. Key question they will need answered: “What is specific to BioAg in this project?”
Potential Answers:

Variety and diversity
Small lot distribution
Realize farm values in market

Growing Washington¶

A non-profit, farm of farms. Our primary goal could be network design for growing the GW network.

Tasks¶

Basic Data

Sales
Customers
Deliveries
- How
- When
- Trucks
- Routes
Storage Facilities

Basic Model

Objectives
- Fuel / Fuel per lb
- cases per mile
- transaction value
- data-driven approach (e.g. from Buy It Like You Mean It)
- Energy per mile (Kumar and CleanMetrics)
- Social Wealth
- Time
- Other approaches from literature search/past work, NGOs, etc
Constraints
- Locations
- Demands
- supplies
- food storage
- hub locations
  - current
  - potential
- farmer’s markets
- hours
- harvest times
- delivery times

Other discussion¶

Connection to Farmers
Maybe Restaurants do not want to give up connection to farmers

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