由于市场、产出双方面的风险以及落后的生产技术，农户在农业供应链中处于弱势地位。鉴于此，很多国家的NGO免费提供市场信息、生产技术指导和农业补贴等，以期改善农户的生产效率及其在供应链中的地位。但是，到目前为止，NGO援助的效果仍然模糊不清，需要系统建模研究。本项目综合运用信息推断、非凸分析、机制设计，Nash讨价还价博弈等手段，从运营决策、供应链结构和协调机制三个角度对NGO农业援助进行研究，厘清其对“公司+农户”和“公司+合作社+农户”这两种主要农业供应链模式的影响，及其各自的适用条件。项目有良好的研究基础，已经得到了较高质量的前期研究成果。研究的最终成果将有助于平息关于NGO援助措施的争议、改善农业供应链效率，并对我国三农问题的解决提供新的思路和方法。

Due to lack of farming skills and abilities to deal with price and yield uncertainty, farmers normally are in a weak position in an agricultural supply chain. In view of this, many NGOs try to improve farmers’ productivity and increase their power by providing market information, agricultural advice and subsidies. However, the effect of NGO aid is still ambiguous, which creates new research opportunities. To fill this research gap, we adopt many operations management tools such as information inference, nonconvex analysis, mechanism design and Nash bargaining game, to examine the impact of NGO aid on operational strategies, channel structure and coordination mechanisms of two typical agricultural supply chains: “firm+farmer” and “firm+ cooperative +farmer”. Preliminary analysis has generated interesting results and great research potential exists in the future research. The possible outcomes and managerial insights will help people to better understand the effect of NGO aid and shed important light on how to alleviate farmers’ poverty in China.