Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Agricultural supply chains are vulnerable to disruptions through linked biophysical and economic systems. We develop a novel AI-powered tool that integrates economic models (GTAP) with biophysical models (APSIM) to analyze supply chain shocks, enabling policymakers and market participants to assess cross-disciplinary impacts through queries and responses written in natural language. We present a conceptual vulnerability framework that categorizes the agricultural supply chain as a social-ecological system with biophysical and economic exposures and a working prototype that couples domain models through a lightweight AI orchestration layer. Our framework is an important first step in orchestrating existing domain models to illustrate the power of model coordination. An empirical example illustrates both the power of the tool and remaining gaps.
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,353
Funder: National Science Foundation
OpenAlex ID: W7214069486