Prospects Challenges and Sustainability of the Agri-Food Supply Chain in the New Global Economy II

Dear Colleagues,

A year ago, when we announced the first edition of the current Special Issue, the world was rapidly changing due to the coronavirus effect. The world was transformed into a new form of capitalism with a growing anti-consumer movement that included five types of anti-consumers: life simplifiers, degrowth activists, climate activists, food choosers and conservation activists. It was expected that citizens would re-examine what they ate, how much they ate and how all of this would be influenced by class issues, inequality and eating habits with a more equitable form of food consumption (in the post-COVID-19 era). The food supply chain was expected to adjust to these new attitudes, dramatically changing in order to meet the new challenges of the upcoming global economy, as had been predicted. 

However, a year later, the world is changing in an unpredictable and unprecedented way with unforeseen consequences. The agri-food supply chain is already at the center of these changes and worldwide studies due to the impending global economic crisis, with the added possibility of a food crisis.

Therefore, this second edition of the current Special Issue is now adapting to the present situation, recruiting papers not only concerning innovation, but also the prospects, challenges and sustainability of the agri-food supply chain, which can provide practical responses to the coming global tsunami. The scientific research concerning all aspects of the food chain are invited for submission, including technologies, new products, consumers’ perceptions, socioeconomic and environmental issues of conservation and sustainability, eco-innovation solutions and green transformative pathways in the agri-food sector.

Dr. Dimitris Skalkos
Guest Editor

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