The Application of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) in Agribusiness Strategic Decision Making: Narrative Review
Abstrak
Strategic decision-making in the agriculture and agribusiness sectors generally involves many criteria that are qualitative, subjective, and full of uncertainty. This condition encourages the use of a multi-criteria decision-making method based on fuzzy logic, one of which is the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP). However, the literature review related to the use of FAHP in the scope of agriculture and agribusiness is still very limited. s. . Articles must be related to agriculture or agribusiness management. A total of 14 relevant articles were obtained from scientific databases and open online sources such as Google Scholar, sciencedirect and Semantic Scholar.The results of the review show that FAHP has been widely used in various strategic decisions, such as the selection of superior commodities, the suitability of production sites assessment, the evaluation of technologies and production systems, and risk mitigation in the supply chain and marketing. However, most studies still place FAHP as a weighting and ranking tool for criteria or alternatives, with relatively limited discussion of strategic implications. This article concludes that FAHP has great potential to be further developed within a more comprehensive strategic decision-making framework, especially through integration with sustainability approaches, real-time data, and other analytical methods.
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