Assessment of the economic and environmental sustainability of a food cold supply chain

Bottani, Eleonora; Casella, Giorgia; Nobili, Majcol; Tebaldi, Letizia

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.11.150

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“…We provide a narrative literature review resuming our findings by Tables 1 and 2. Moreover, we also consider neighboring areas of food supply chains, e.g., new energy technology products (see Malik et al [16] and Bottani et al [26]), CO2 emissions (see Hofmannet al [17]), and ready-made garments (see Kumar et al [15]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…e authors argue that, to overcome these barriers, there is a need for political intervention and economic support. Similarly, Bottani et al [26] explore barriers and drivers in the commercialization of sustainable energy technologies by small and medium companies (SMEs) in the Netherlands. e latter are especially capable of commercializing sustainable technologies by developing innovative products as well as envisioning new organizational forms and business models.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…e latter are especially capable of commercializing sustainable technologies by developing innovative products as well as envisioning new organizational forms and business models. Although they are best suited to bring forward renewable energy products, there are drivers and barriers in the Netherlands that are interesting to study to bring forward the energy transition [26]. e authors list four barriers that seem to limit the commercialization of technology products for renewable energy, i.e., limited financial resources, technological complexity of solutions, significant market competition, and low legitimacy of solutions.…”

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“…Sustainability in food supply chains is mostly studied with respect to the economic and environmental dimension (see [12,[16][17][18]) which includes either increasing profitability or reducing costs as well as reducing pollutants, e.g., CO 2 emissions (see [26]). However, the long-term perspective of sustainability, such as caring for resources, so that they are available to future generations, e.g., reducing water consumption and reducing soil pollution (see also Mehmood et al [36]), and the social dimension including goals like increasing social health or improving the unemployment rate have not been extensively and sufficiently addressed in available studies; see also the special issue paper of Hebinck et al [37] that highlights the need for life cycle analysis (tools) especially regarding water and land use.…”

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Evaluating Barriers and Drivers to Sustainable Food Supply Chains

Mohseni

Baghizadeh

Pahl

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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Today, with the daily increase in population, the demand for agricultural and/or, in general, food products continuously raises and so does the natural resources consumption which induces challenges to the supply chain management of important food products. In the present study, drivers as well as barriers of the agriculture sustainable supply chain are identified and ranked with the help of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. We identify six drivers and seven barriers with the help of experts’ opinions in the field and apply ranking methods including TOPSIS-AHP, AHP, and COPRAS-AHP as well as Borda rule and Copeland method to merge the ratings. The results highlight that the economic dimension of sustainability is more important than the environmental and social dimension. Distrust of consumers, lack of understanding and awareness of managers, and performance appraisal problems were found to be the most important barriers. Furthermore, informing the community by the media, entering the global market, exporting products, and producing sustainable products as a competitive advantage were identified to be the most important drivers. The study also shows that public awareness and demands can push the food supply chains toward sustainability goals with the cooperation of governments and suppliers.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Evaluating Barriers and Drivers to Sustainable Food Supply Chains

Mohseni

Baghizadeh

Pahl

2022

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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“…For the multiobjective assessment of the FCCL life cycle, researchers have assessed the impact of accounting for carbon emissions resulting from the transportation and storage of cold items for a multistage supply chain, and a hybrid economic and EI minimization model has been proposed (Hariga et al., 2017). Similarly, other researchers have discussed the optimization of economic and environmental sustainability assessments for the refrigerated food supply chain (Bottani et al., 2019). To focus on both quality and EI, a computational method combining LCA with a virtual cold chain has been proposed (Wu et al., 2019).…”

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Sustainable food cold chain logistics: From microenvironmental monitoring to global impact

Chen

Qian

Yang

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Comp Rev Food Sci Food Safe

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Food cold chain logistics (FCCL) is a systematic engineering process involving the use of a low-temperature environment to maintain the quality and safety of perishable food and reduce food loss and waste (FLW). From a mechanism perspective, FCCL must balance resource costs for a required level of food quality and safety with the costs of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the context of global warming, the sustainability trade-off between FLW and environmental impact has recently become an important topic in research on efficient, green FCCL. This is mainly reflected in technological innovation, management optimization, and policy responses. With a focus on three levels (micro, meso, macro), this review analyzes current research areas and the gaps and challenges of FCCL in microenvironmental monitoring, life cycle assessment (LCA), and global impact. Future trends pertaining to FCCL in technology, management, and industry and sustainable development are also summarized. Future trends involving sustainable FCCL must be intelligent, systematic, and low carbon.Industry empowerment through next-generation information technologies (e.g., IoT, AI, big data, blockchain) will promote the multidimensional perception, real-time information transmission, and sustainable control of microenvironmental monitoring, as well as support LCA management transformation from fragmentation to system integration. From a macro level, due to the serious global loss of perishable food, the FCCL scale demand is growing greatly, causing a huge environmental burden. Global cooperation, low-carbon consensus, and appropriate policies will become the basis for promoting sustainable FCCL development.

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