Sustainability in Food Supply Chain and Food Industry

Dear Colleagues,

In the next few decades, the global food demand will grow and stress food supply chains. The increasing relevance of processing, storage, and logistic activities within the food supply chain mandate a new systemic perspective for addressing sustainability. While these processes are typically tailored to reduce costs, their environmental and social sustainability are not accounted for. Therefore, reconciling economic growth of food supply chain ecosystems with environmental and social sustainability is mandatory for the future generation of politician, planners, entrepreneurs, and consumers.

This Special Issue is seeking original, unpublished papers that describe recent advances in various field of food industry and food supply chain ecosystems toward economic, environmental and social sustainability. The required target is to provide evidences of where and how quantitative models, methods and support-decision tools, as well as advanced technology, can aid the design and management of more sustainable food operations from-farm-to-fork, throughout cropping, processing and packaging, storage and distribution activities.   

This Special Issue invites timely and advanced research papers, but even case studies supported by multi-disciplinary quantitative approaches for an effective assessment of the as-is food operations and a pro-active re-design toward sustainability.

Dr. Riccardo Accorsi
Prof. Riccardo Manzini
Guest Editors

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