Impeding Future Perils via Social, Agri-Food and Ecosystem Interlinkages
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 76
Special Issue Editors
Interests: agri-food policy; sustainability; rural development; ecosystems economics
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Interests: food marketing; supply food chain analysis; management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers from the 188th EAAE Seminar on “Reorienting Agri-Food Chains to Hinder Climate Change and Food Security Threats” to be held on 12–13 September 2024, in Chania, Greece. The 188th EAAE Seminar’s objectives are to bring together scholars and researchers in the field, as well as stakeholders from supply chains, that will exchange ideas, practices and research initiatives that cover most of the current food systems, biodiversity, and agri-food chain developments for assisting policy-making decisions in agriculture and the agri-food industry.
Food systems’ failures may depend on consumer choices and the extent to which consumers can influence these systems. In this framework, the reorientation of the agri-food value chain, by mobilizing the market and social drivers (including processors, retailers and consumers), could be a possible solution in supporting sustainable agri-food systems with reduced vulnerability, which, in turn, can result in substantial benefits at economic, social and environmental levels, such as climate change and food insecurity mitigation.
In this context, this Special Issue aspires to create a forum for the promotion of food systems’ resilience through biodiverse supply chains in the global agri-food sector. Therefore, both empirical and methodological research papers are equally welcome. Papers selected for this Special Issue will be subjected to a rigorous peer-review process with the aim of a wide dissemination of valuable research results.
Prof. Dr. Konstadinos Mattas
Dr. George Baourakis
Dr. Christos Staboulis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biodiverse supply chains
- climate change and food insecurity mitigation
- environmental policy impact assessment
- emerging policy-related sustainability issues
- resilient food systems
- sustainable agro-food chains
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