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Peri-urban regions, especially in the Mediterranean, face challenges like farmland loss due to urban pressure. This study emphasizes retail stores as strategic focal points for evaluating societal, economic, and production systems. It hypothesiz[...]Article
H. Helander ; S. Schnepf ; T. Stetter ; F. Ferrara ; S. Leipold |Supermarkets play an important role in industrialized food systems, which is why many in academia, politics, industry, and civil society view them as key players in transforming the food system toward greater sustainability. We analyse narrative[...]Article
The inward flows of fruits and vegetables in the European Union are regulated by the import regime, consisting of a system of quotas and Entry Prices. The effectiveness of this trade policy has been under investigation since the early 2000s and [...]Article
We are currently witnessing a global transition (albeit slow) towards new, more sustainable models of development and consumption. This transition activates and highlights a series of discrepancies between the various actors in agri-food marketi[...]Article
The subject of this article is the issue of short food supply chains. The research problem formulated in the paper aims to address whether short food supply chains ensure the sustainable development of rural areas and whether they are being disp[...]Article
Intermediaries play a crucial role in the functioning of agricultural and food markets in developing countries through linking production, imports and storage with consumption. We analyse how competition in the intermediary sector and alternativ[...]Article
In the last decade, agricultural cooperatives have become increasingly popular in the food industry. This paper aims to shed light on the extensive literature on agricultural cooperatives. Design/Methodology/Approach: In conducting this review, [...]Article
F. Jia ; G. Shahzadi ; M. Bourlakis ; A. John |Purpose This review aims to comprehensively analyze the Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) model, which connects local food producers directly with consumers. By exploring participation factors, sustainable practices, challenges, economic impacts, a[...]Article
The stability and long-term viability of agri-food supply chains are at risk due to factors such as rapid population growth and global disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic. This study develops a multi-objective robust fuzzy stochastic programm[...]Article
This study utilises structural gravity models to examine the impact of globalisation on distance in agricultural and processed food trade, the relative effects of international distance and home bias effects. The results show that larger interna[...]E-Book
Où et comment ferons-nous nos courses demain ? Avec lessor des plateformes numériques, le libre-service est remis en cause, dans lalimentaire comme ailleurs. Et le parcours client dhier se réinvente à tâtons. Ce livre imagine quatre scénario[...]Article
Le contexte international et les préoccupations environnementales ne sont pas favorables à la signature daccords commerciaux. En outre, ils sont suspendus aux futures échéances politiques de lUnion européenne.Article
The covid-19 pandemic has shown how an unpredictable event may affect the sustainability of the entire food supply chain highlighting the need for a sustainable approach to food logistics. While existing literature has focused on production and [...]Article
Online presence is essential for companies operating in the social economy. The health crisis resulting from Covid-19 has reinforced the need to access the Internet and develop online commerce. This paper analyses the online presence of Catalan [...]Article
D. Vackárová ; H. Medková ; P. Krpec ; J. Weinzettel |Agricultural activities utilize provisioning ecosystem services while degrading nature?s contributions to people of natural ecosystems. These impacts are partly driven by international trade and consumption abroad. The objective of this Communic[...]Article
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L'article explore les tensions entre les objectifs économiques et les objectifs sociaux et environnementaux dans un processus de mise à l'échelle d'un business model durable. Une étude de cas qualitative et séquentielle de l'entreprise Biocoop, [...]Article
The RussianUkrainian conflict has led to the disruption of global supply chains, thus posing a threat to food security. The study aimed to assess the short-term impact of the conflict on food supply and global retail food prices resulting from [...]Article
In recent years, scholars and practitioners have discussed several challenges related to the fresh-food supply chains (SCs). One of these challenges is the lack of availability of curated, clean, and processed market information for the SC parti[...]Article
A. Bertossi ; S. Troiano ; F. Marangon |The agribusiness sector needs substantial funding to initiate an ecological transition involving healthy diets and the creation of local circuits and linkages. One sector that has yet to be studied from this perspective is vending, whose importa[...]Article
Climate change and trade are closely related. Climate may alter the comparative advantages across countries, which may in turn trigger changes in trade patterns. Trade itself may constitute an adaptation strategy, moving excesses of agri-food su[...]Article
Cet article étudie le soutien aux circuits courts alimentaires de proximité (CCAP) dans la politique de développement rural. Nous interrogeons la portée des actions CCAP créées par et pour les territoires à travers les groupes dactions locaux ([...]Article
F. Cirone ; M. Masotti ; P. Prosperi ; S. Bosi ; G. Dinelli ; M. Vittuari |Short food supply chains play a vital role in connecting local producers with consumers, promoting sustainability, supporting local economies, and providing access to fresh, high-quality products. However, their market is still underdeveloped du[...]Article
Civic crowdfunding (CiC) and matchfunding (MF) are innovative private-public financing tools that can back projects with positive social and environmental characteristics. The purpose of this study is to analyse the potential opportunities and c[...]Article
In the last two decades, Portugal suffered the effects of two global crises, the financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the Common Agriculture Policy reforms. These crises had a great impact on the Portuguese economy, but it is c[...]Article
Short food supply chains (SFSCs) are advocated as strategies to improve the sustainability of the agro-food system. The recent literature claims that SFSCs are examples of social experimentation and innovation. By scaling up the positive element[...]Article
Since the establishment of the World Trade Organization (WTO) also the number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) has risen strongly, from less than 50 in 1995 to more than 350 in 2022. Increasingly overlapping RTAs imply challenges and can rais[...]Article
In recent times, there has been a growing interest in the role of food trade in achieving food security. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between food trade and food security within the context of the Belt and Roa[...]Article
I.A. Elshaer ; A.M.S. Azazz ; S.S. Hassan ; S. Fayyad |In recent years, there has been growing interest in promoting sustainable agriculture and reducing the environmental impact of the food system. One approach to achieving these goals is through farm-to-Fork (FTF) sourcing, which involves direct p[...]Article
Food price bubbles are a phenomenon in which the cost of some food items or food commodities climbs quickly and unreasonably before collapsing due to reasons such as speculation, supply and demand imbalances, meteorological occurrences, and gove[...]