scholarly journals Blockchain as a sustainability-oriented innovation?: Opportunities for and resistance to Blockchain technology as a driver of sustainability in global food supply chains

2022 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 121403
Author(s):  
Nicola Friedman ◽  
Jarrod Ormiston
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

scholarly journals The Impact of Resource and Nutritional Resilience on the Global Food Supply System

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne Martindale ◽  
Mark Swainson ◽  
Sonal Choudhary
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food System ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Critical Control Points ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

Pressure points in global food supply where resilience in supply chains can be limited or controlled are the equivalent of Critical Control Points in food safety systems. The approach of using critical control in supply chains can provide insights for nutritional improvement, sustainable food trade and food waste reduction. The pressure points determine the provision of a secure and sustainable food system where the outcomes of reducing their criticality are identified in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and other international programmes. These seek to reduce climate change impact and improve public health provision. While policy makers are rightly focussed on these targets, the data analysis methods required to rank and associate resource flow pressure points with commercial food supply chains and nutritional goals remain untested. Here, we show how methodologies can identify where opportunities to tackle future criticality exist, and where they are currently being overlooked for food categories that have the greatest consumer and dietary protein demand. The analysis provides insights that identify where latent restrictions in resilience can occur, so that the future risk of food insecurity is reduced.

scholarly journals Voiceless but empowered farmers in corporate supply chains: Contradictory imagery and instrumental approach to empowerment

Organization ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy McCarthy ◽  
Anne Touboulic ◽  
Lee Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Sustainable Farming ◽  
Large Organization ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

There have been calls for a shift of focus toward the political and power-laden aspects of transitioning toward socially equitable global supply chains. This article offers an empirically grounded response to these calls from a critical realist stance in the context of global food supply chains. We examine how an imaginary for sustainable farming structured around an instrumental construction of empowerment limits what is viewed as permissible, desirable, and possible in global food supply chains. We adopt a multimodal critical discourse analysis to examine the sustainable farming imaginary for smallholder farmers constructed by one large organization, Unilever, in a series of videos produced and disseminated on YouTube. We expose the underlying mechanisms of power and marginalization at work within the sustainability imaginary and show how ‘empowerment’ has the potential to create new dependencies for these farmers. We recontextualize the representations to show that while the imaginary may be commercially feasible, it is less achievable in terms of empowering smallholder farmers.

scholarly journals Sustainability Performance of Local vs Global Food Supply Chains: The Case of Bread Chains in Italy

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Galli ◽  
Fabio Bartolini ◽  
Gianluca Brunori ◽  
Andrea Marescotti ◽  
Oriana Gava
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Sustainability Performance ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

Optimizing global food supply chains: The case for blockchain and GSI standards

2020 ◽  
pp. 171-204
Author(s):  
John G. Keogh ◽  
Abderahman Rejeb ◽  
Nida Khan ◽  
Kevin Dean ◽  
Karen J. Hand
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

Managing Risk in Global Food Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
pp. 239-264
Author(s):  
Marco A. Miranda-Ackerman ◽  
Citlali Colin-Chávez ◽  
Irma Cristina Espitia-Moreno ◽  
Betzabé Ruiz-Morales ◽  
Karina Cecilia Arredondo-Soto
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Cold Chain ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Managing Risk ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply

Supply chains have inherent risk given the number of actors that interface. While there are some chains that have low frequencies of unfavorable events, many continuously face uncertainty. Food production has many uncertainties along the global supply chain. The global nature of the large logistical networks increases its complexity. Two main sources of uncertainty arise: External and internal to the SC. External factors mainly come from nature (such as “El Niño” phenomenon) and from human activities (such as food and nutrition policy and standards). Internal factors mainly come from operations such as a cold chain disruption. Thus, one needs to minimize risk and improve resilience in order to achieve food security and sustainability. It is then imperative that risk management practices be integrated into the supply chain design and management process. This chapter presents an overview of the main risks involved in global food supply chains, as well as some techniques for risk management.

Global Food Supply Chains

2014 ◽  
pp. 499-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.H. Trienekens ◽  
J.G.A.J. van der Vorst ◽  
C.N. Verdouw
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Global Food ◽  
Global Food Supply
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