Is Environmental Sustainability Also “Economically Efficient”? The Case of the “SOStain” Certification for Sicilian Sparkling Wines

Ingrassia, Marzia; Chironi, Stefania; Grasso, Giuseppe Lo; Gristina, Luciano; Francesca, Nicola; Bacarella, Simona; Columba, Pietro; Altamore, Luca

doi:10.3390/su14127359

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“…This motivational dimension emphasizes the pleasure that wine lovers find in learning and having new information from producers about production systems, types of wines, sustainability practices, and about wines. This evinces precisely the love for wine and the need to experience pleasant emotions: wine is the hedonic need [65,66].…”

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“…First, wineries should improve their performance by renewing their business models with a view to sustainability, in their interests, and meeting customer demand [78][79][80]. This should be done by individual companies using their financing or, if possible, taking governmental contributions (like in the UE under the Common Agricultural Policy funding for agro-environmental measures [66,79,80] or the Next Generation EU recovery plan) Thanks to these investments, it will be possible to carry out interventions in structural works at the firm and WRs level. These innovative business models oriented toward economic and environmental sustainability will be able to create value using the territorial asset and the sustainability production models [80][81][82] and at the same time help companies to be resilient in the long run given economic, health, and social crises [83][84][85][86][87][88].…”

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Visitor’s Motivational Framework and Wine Routes’ Contribution to Sustainable Agriculture and Tourism

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Wine Routes develop inside the larger context of wine tourism (WT), which is increasingly important for rural communities. Italy is one of the most important countries in the world for wine production and tourism. Sicily is one of the leading regions in Italy for wine production and wine tourists. This study focuses on the Sicilian wine routes (SWRs) and gives an excursus of their development during the last ten years, highlighting strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, the study wants to make an attempt to bridge the existing gap in the literature and highlight the nature and extent of the contribution of the SWR to the development of the WT ‘product’ from the perspective of the increasingly booming sustainable–rural tourism. Face-to-face interviews were conducted along the SWRs with 283 wine tourists, 65 wine enterprises, and eight expert stakeholders. The motivations for tourists to visit the first time and their intention to return were investigated by the explorative factor analysis. Moreover, the wine tourist profile was highlighted. Findings outline some specific features of the general experience economy model where visitors’ emotional involvement and local cooperation appear crucial for the integrated territorial development of the backward rural areas of wine regions in different parts of the world. Managerial implications of findings are discussed.

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“…Sustainability communication has garnered growing attention and importance across industries, including the food sector [28,31]. The food industry has already leveraged global sustainability initiatives and standards, such as sustainability reporting [32] and the implementation of labels and certifications [33,34], to communicate their commitments to sustainable practices and the sustainability attributes of their products. These initiatives and measures provide a framework for assessing and verifying sustainable attributes, encouraging food producers and suppliers to adopt sustainable practices, and facilitating consumers to make informed choices.…”

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Blockchain Traceability for Sustainability Communication in Food Supply Chains: An Architectural Framework, Design Pathway and Considerations

Cao,

Xu,

Bryceson

2023

Sustainability

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The increasing demand for sustainable and ethically sourced food products has highlighted the importance of effective sustainability communication within the food supply chain. Existing sustainability communication approaches encounter limitations such as a lack of standardised frameworks, information overload, greenwashing, and an absence of transparent reporting. These challenges hinder their effectiveness and reliability in communicating sustainability efforts and commitments to businesses and consumers in a food chain. Blockchain technology, with its transparent, traceable, verifiable, and immutable features, offers a promising solution to address these limitations and facilitate effective sustainability communication. This paper explores the benefits of applying blockchain traceability to enhance sustainability communication in food supply chains. Using the system architecture approach, this paper proposes a high-level architectural framework, which can navigate the design and development of a blockchain-enabled solution for food sustainability communication. To assist with the translation of the architectural framework into a tailored solution, this paper further presents an action design pathway and discusses the design considerations around organisation, technology, governance, cost, and the user interface. The discussions and insights offered by this study can guide system developers and business analysts in the design and development of industry-oriented solutions, helping them make informed decisions before and during the design process. This paper contributes to advancing and expanding blockchain applications with a particular focus on sustainability communication in food supply chains.

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“…Its requirements are connected to the new Common Agricultural Practices (CAP) 2023-2027 objectives 15 , and companies joining the foundation can green their production practices and prepare for the challenges of future winemaking. In 2022 they conducted a study [32] among producers and consumers, in order to gather opinions about motivations, difficulties, cost, and positive effects of the SOStain certification. In addition, they were interested also in their intentions to make ethical choices and their willingness to spend more for a wine with the SOStain certification.…”

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“…The Admin application was implemented in React 33 and uses the available MiB services with a corresponding JWT token for authorization purposes. 31 We are using the alpha snapshots of the 5.0 version that supports WebXR, and can be found here: https://www.babylonjs.com/ 32 Latest versions of Google Chrome do not allow the operation of the camera's autofocus functionality, which is crucial for the Image Tracking functionality.…”

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Message-In-A-Bottle: Engaging Stories Around Sustainable and Safe Wine Products

Papadakos,

Chrysakis,

Patkos

et al. 2023

Preprint

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The wine industry has evolved thanks to the introduction of digital technologies in every aspect of the wine production chain and the emerging need of the food industry for qualitative, sustainable, and safe products. As a result, the incorporation of digital services that facilitate access to related data of wine products is crucial for wine enterprises to increase their competitiveness, customer loyalty, and market share in this highly competitive domain. In this work, we present the Message-in-a-Bottle(MiB) ecosystem, which exploits multi-dimensional and multi-sourced data for creating engaging and interactive stories around wine labels. We especially focus on the sustainability and safety issues in the wine industry and showcase how MiB addresses them. The ecosystem is developed in the context of the MiB project∗ and has already started to be available in the market through the Lyrarakis† wine enterprise.

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Is Environmental Sustainability Also “Economically Efficient”? The Case of the “SOStain” Certification for Sicilian Sparkling Wines

Cited by 8 publications

References 77 publications

Visitor’s Motivational Framework and Wine Routes’ Contribution to Sustainable Agriculture and Tourism

Visitor’s Motivational Framework and Wine Routes’ Contribution to Sustainable Agriculture and Tourism

Blockchain Traceability for Sustainability Communication in Food Supply Chains: An Architectural Framework, Design Pathway and Considerations

Message-In-A-Bottle: Engaging Stories Around Sustainable and Safe Wine Products

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