Colluding firms often exchange private information and make transfers within the cartels based on the information. Estimating the impact of such collusive practices— known as the “lysine strategy profile (LSP)â€â€” on cartel duration is difficult because of endogeneity and...

The design and planning of more sustainable supply chains should take into account several impacts for a proper assessment of the environmental performance of the logistic activities. Unfortunately, minimizing several environmental objectives simultaneously leads to hard optimization problems....

This manual is intended for maize breeders who would like to start developing quality protein maize (QPM) cultivars. It is a compilation and consolidation of several breeding protocols successfully used at CIMMYT over two decades of QPM development and breeding. A brief background and the basic...