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Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to propose a fresh perspective to effectively adopt leagility in supply chain. The research adopts Theory of Constraints (TOC) methodology and amalgamates it with design thinking process, people's opinion and mathematical approach to help achieve supply chain leagility.


Design/methodology/approach
– The proposed framework is a seven stepped approach to achieve supply chain leagility combination analytical and mathematical procedures. Data enveloping analysis (DEA) is used to identify high level constraint. The new designed thinking process is used to further evaluate the constraints. Nominal group technique (NGT) is used to help build the current reality tree and identify detail level constraints.


Findings
– The framework application on a case supply chain improves various parameters of leanness and agility over a period of one year. Improvements include reduced rework, improved cash flow, reduced operating cost, reduced order backlog and better customer interaction.


Research limitations/implications
– This research opens up TOC application in a totally new area of leagility adoption in supply chain. The framework needs to be explored with more implementation in various business scenarios.


Practical implications
– The proposed framework is extremely intuitive and pragmatic in approach. The case application demonstrates the framework can be easily adopted by supply chain managers to improve leagility.


Social implications
– The current study attempts to diversify the TOC application. Using thinking process, DEA and NGT in TOC parlance brings in objectivity and employees together for improvement.


Originality/value
– Amalgamating the mathematical approach of DEA, design thinking process and NGT within the TOC framework for supply chain leagility is new and novel.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Editors -- 1: Ecological Footprints in Agroecosystem: An Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Concept of Ecological Footprint -- 1.3 Ecological Footprint and Sustainability -- 1.4 Ecological Footprint Analysis -- 1.5 Forms of Footprints -- 1.5.1 Water Footprint -- 1.5.2 Energy Footprint -- 1.5.3 Climate Footprint -- 1.5.4 Land Footprint -- 1.5.5 Nutrient Footprint -- 1.6 Carbon and Water Footprint in Agroecosystems -- 1.7 Research and Development in Ecological Footprint -- 1.8 Future Roadmap of Ecological Footprint in Agroecosystems -- 1.9 Policy and Legal Framework for Managing Footprint in Agroecosystem -- 1.10 Conclusion -- References -- 2: Natural Resources Intensification and Footprints Management for Sustainable Food System -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Major Components of Agroecology in South Asia -- 2.2.1 Diversity -- 2.2.1.1 Diversity in Land Resources -- 2.2.1.2 Diversity in Water Resources -- 2.2.1.3 Diversity in Climate Change -- 2.2.1.4 Crops Diversification -- 2.2.1.5 Land Diversification -- 2.2.2 Establishment and Disseminate of Experiences -- 2.2.3 Government Policies, Institutions, and Public Goods -- 2.2.4 Synergies -- 2.2.5 Resource Use Efficiency -- 2.2.6 Recycling -- 2.2.7 Resilience Building -- 2.2.8 Social and Human Values -- 2.2.9 Tradition of Culture and Food -- 2.3 Impacts of Intensive Agriculture and Climate Change on Agroecology -- 2.3.1 Global Warming and Weather Migration -- 2.3.2 Land Value Degradation -- 2.3.3 Deterioration of Soil Quality -- 2.3.4 Worldwide Water Scarcity -- 2.3.5 Impact on Crop Production and Associative Environment -- 2.3.6 Occurrence of Extreme Events on Human -- 2.4 Natural Resources and Footprints in South Asia (SA) -- 2.4.1 Natural Resources of South Asia -- 2.4.2 Different Footprints -- 2.4.2.1 Carbon Footprint -- 2.4.2.2 Water Footprints.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- About the Editors -- Contributors -- 1: Sustainable Intensification for Agroecosystem Services and Management: An Overview -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Sustainable Intensification in Agroecosystem -- 1.3 Sustainable Intensification Toward Agroecosystem Services -- 1.4 Challenges for Ecointensification Toward Sustainability -- 1.5 Agricultural Intensification and Environmental Sustainability -- 1.6 Agroecosystem Management -- 1.6.1 Management of Crop Ecosystem -- 1.6.2 Management of Soil Ecosystem -- 1.7 Addressing Food Security Through Sustainable Agriculture -- 1.8 Policy and Legal Perspectives -- 1.9 Conclusions -- 1.10 Future Perspectives -- References -- 2: Food and Nutrition Security in India Through Agroecology: New Opportunities in Agriculture System -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 India´s Rank in Global Hunger Index 2018 -- 2.3 Climate Change -- 2.3.1 Drivers of Climate Change -- 2.3.1.1 Variation in Temperature -- 2.3.1.2 Volcanic Eruptions -- 2.3.1.3 Role of Greenhouse Gases -- 2.3.2 Climate Change: World Scenario -- 2.3.3 Climate Change: Indian Scenario -- 2.4 Food Security -- 2.4.1 How Can Food Security Be Ensured? -- 2.4.2 Effects of Food Crisis -- 2.4.3 Food Security: World Perspective -- 2.4.4 Food Security: Indian Perspective -- 2.4.5 Food Security and Climate Change -- 2.5 Climate Change and Food Production -- 2.6 Climate Change and Nutritional Deficiency of Crops -- 2.6.1 Effect of Temperature on Agriculture -- 2.6.2 Effect of Rainfall and Drought on Agriculture -- 2.6.3 Effect of Carbon Dioxide Concentration on Agriculture -- 2.6.4 Impact of Salinity on Agriculture -- 2.6.5 Climate Change and Food Accessibility -- 2.6.6 Climate Change and Food Absorption -- 2.6.7 Case Study -- 2.7 Ecological Footprint Under Changing Climate.