Innovation and Sustainability in the Agro-Food System

Dear Colleagues,

The importance of sustainability across all aspects of the agro-food system has never been so important. Sustainability is increasingly impacting all players within the agro-food system and will continue to influence the structure, nature and innovations in supply chains into the future. The unsustainable patterns of producing, consuming and disposing food in contemporary global society results in complex multi-layered challenges that are reflected in the overall health of our planet, bottlenecks in modern agro-food supply chains, increasing household costs and waste, widening disparities between the “big” and “small” and the “rich” and “poor”, and the deteriorating diversity of the plant and animal worlds.

This Special Issue of Sustainability titled “Innovative Strategic Approaches to Sustainability in the Agro-Food System” will explore innovative approaches to sustainability within food systems by including the perspectives of all players, from primary producers to consumers, and from economic, social and environmental angles. The aim of this Special Issue is to explore new and innovative ways to advance sustainability across the agro-food system. It will bring together original high-quality papers that offer quantitative and/or qualitative accounts of innovative sustainability applications as well as theoretical and conceptual papers that will present advances and best practices for innovative sustainable solutions. This Special Issue will cover key sustainability topics across the domains of business, economics, social science, technology and agriculture. For this Special Issue, original empirical research or theoretical articles and reviews are welcome, as are multidisciplinary approaches to the topics.

The following themes will inform the Special Issue:

• Producers, processors, retailers and consumers innovating and responding to sustainability across supply chains
• Economic, social or environmental innovations to advance food sustainability
• Innovations in sustainable agriculture, fisheries and rural development in advanced, emerging and developing economies
• Smart and new technologies in agriculture
• Food waste, recycling and upcycling
• Changing consumer behaviour
• Advancing sustainable food packaging
• New approaches to policies and incentives

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Joe Bogue
Dr. Lana Repar
Guest Editors

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