Food and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 April 2023) | Viewed by 23114
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food choice; consumer behavior; behavioural change and marketing
Interests: sustainability in business and tourism; business and environmental ethics; entrepreneurship and pro-environmental behaviour change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
- This Special Issue will focus broadly on how the food and drink industry can meet the challenge of embedding sustainability into its business strategies and operations as well as nudging consumers towards making more sustainable food choices. Many food businesses today are under pressure to demonstrate how their products and services are making a positive contribution towards society. However, one of the biggest challenges for businesses is progressing sustainability initiatives from an added benefit view to an integrated, value-driven to business approach.
- Embedding a sustainability focus into the business can present new market opportunities to develop products that consumers value and are willing to pay for. In helping to define the breadth of sustainability, The United Nations designed seventeen goals, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and 169 targets. However, the challenge for businesses is understanding how to adapt and embed these goals into their business. The SDGs can offer businesses a useful framework for understanding the type of contribution or impact their business can have on society. Some examples of topics relating to how businesses can embed the SDGs into their business might include the following: SDG1—No Poverty and SDG2—Zero Hunger (food redistrubtion, food poverty and insecurity), SDG3—Health and Wellbeing (development of healthy food products and food labelling), SDG12—Responsible Consumption and Production (ethical eating, food production and food manufacturing), SDG13—Climate Action (food waste, waste symbiosis and carbon emissions) and SDG14—Life below Water and SDG15—Life on Land (animal welfare and maritime welfare).
- The purpose of this issue is to explore how food and drink businesses can successfully embed the SDGs into their current strategies and shape future impacts on society.
- This Special Issue will seek to advance the literature beyond embedding the SDGs into management education (Dean et. al., 2019, Junior et. al., 2019 and Setó-Pamies, D. and Papaoikonomou, 2020) by addressing the how they can be embedded within an industry, particularly the food and drink industry.
Dean, B. A., Gibbons, B. and Perkiss, S. (2018) An Experiential Learning Activity for Integrating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Into Business Education. Social Business, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 387–409.
Junior, R.M., Fien, J. and Horne, R. (2019) Implementing the UN SDGs in Universities: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned. Sustainability.Vol 12, No, 2, pp.129–133. http://doi.org/10.1089/sus.2019.0004
Setó-Pamies, D. and Papaoikonomou, E. (2020) Sustainable Development Goals: A Powerful Framework for Embedding Ethics, CSR, and Sustainability in Management Education, Sustainability, 12, 1762; doi:10.3390/su12051762 file:///C:/Users/e10415544/Downloads/sustainability-12-01762-v2.pdf
Dr. Lynsey Hollywood
Dr. Susann Power
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development goals
- food and drink
- strategy
- market opportunities
- business sustainability
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