Are Short Food Supply Chains More Environmentally Sustainable than Long Chains? A Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the Eco-Efficiency of Food Chains in Selected EU Countries [PDF]
Energies, 2020 Improving the eco-efficiency of food systems is one of the major global challenges faced by the modern world. Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are commonly regarded to be less harmful to the environment, among various reasons, due to their organizational
Edward Majewski +12 more
doaj +5 more sources
In This Issue: Short Supply Chains [PDF]
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 Full text of this issue's editorial: In this issue that completes our sixth volume, we present several papers on short supply chains: food hubs, farm-to-grocers, farmers markets, local grains (in Ethiopia), and, interestingly, two different takes on ...
Duncan Hilchey
doaj +4 more sources
Exploring regulatory obstacles to the development of short food supply chains: empirical evidence from selected european countries [PDF]
International Journal of Food Studies, 2022 This paper explores the challenges in meeting the regulatory requirements of short food supply chains in 9 European countries based upon findings from the European H2020 3-year project "SMARTCHAIN".
Lazar Živković +3 more
doaj +3 more sources
Short Food Supply Chains: rebuilding consumers’ trust. [PDF]
New Medit, 2021 Whereas population is showing increasing distrust rates in the regular agri-food system, Alternative Food Networks (AFN) are gradually gaining space.
José Luis Cruz +3 more
doaj +4 more sources
Short Supply Chains - a New Paradigm of Agricultural Marketing [PDF]
Revista de Management Comparat InternationalShort supply chains are a new approach to agricultural marketing, responding to the challenges posed by globalization and the complexity of traditional supply chains, and changing the way agrarian producers market their products and interact with ...
Florin PUIU, Adrian TUREK-RAHOVEANU
doaj +6 more sources
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 IntroductionThe COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges to global food supply chains. Since the beginning of the pandemic researchers have studied various food supply chain issues influenced by the COVID-19 crisis, including impacts on consumer ...
Maija Ušča, Talis Tisenkopfs
doaj +4 more sources
Examination of Short Supply Chains Based on Circular Economy and Sustainability Aspects
Resources, 2019 The sustainability of global food chains and intense agricultural production has become questionable. At the same time, the consumers’ interest in short supply chains (SSCs) and direct sales from producers has increased.
Konrád Kiss +2 more
doaj +4 more sources
Nurturing Sustainability and Health: Exploring the Role of Short Supply Chains in the Evolution of Food Systems—The Case of Poland [PDF]
Foods, 2023 Over the last few decades, short food supply chains and local food markets, where farmers either sell their products directly to consumers or use a limited number of intermediaries, have developed worldwide in rural and urban areas.
N. Drejerska, Wioleta Sobczak-Malitka
europepmc +2 more sources
Business, Management and Economics Engineering, 2022 Purpose – This paper aims to reveal potential research possibilities for enhancing climate-smart agriculture through short supply chains. Research question – How can short supply chains assure food security and the promotion of climate-smart ...
Mangirdas Morkūnas +2 more
doaj +2 more sources
A Bibliometric Analysis of Short Supply Chains in the Agri-Food Sector
Sustainability, 2023 Short supply chains have recently gained increased attention because of the turbulence in the global environment caused by exogenous influences that create unstable and uncertain conditions.
Giannis T Tsoulfas +2 more
exaly +2 more sources