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Moving towards Sustainability in Food Chains: Dealing with Costs and Benefits

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

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Title Moving towards Sustainability in Food Chains: Dealing with Costs and Benefits
 
Creator Schiefer, Gerhard
Deiters, Jivka
 
Subject Supply chain; sustainability; price formation
 
Description Sustainability concerns are receiving increasingly attention by society and in turn, the food sector and consumers as the food sector’s final customers. Investments towards improvements in sustainability along the chain are usually not evenly distributed along the chain which affects the balance in the distribution of costs and returns. Transparency is a means for supporting an appropriate link between costs and returns. Various alternatives are being discussed. The chapter utilizes a case study approach for elaborating on the possibilities of regaining costs through price premiums, the communication of sustainability to consumers and the cooperation through horizontal and vertical networking alternatives that could support developments towards sustainability through gains in efficiency and concerted engagements in dealing with sustainability, costs and returns along the chain
 
Publisher CentMA
 
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Date 2015-03-03
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/615
10.18461/ijfsd.v6i1.615
 
Source International Journal on Food System Dynamics; Vol 6, No 1 (2015); 50 - 61
1869-6945
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://centmapress.ilb.uni-bonn.de/ojs/index.php/fsd/article/view/615/442