Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Food Supply Chain Continuum
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: food sustainability; food safety and quality; life cycle assessment of food; environmental footprints in the food supply chain; sustainable diets; sustainable food production; food modeling
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Interests: nonthermal and advanced thermal processing technologies; green processing; Industry 4.0; sustainability; sustainable development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
From the moment the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been accepted, food has been recognized as one of the cornerstones for their achievement. Different steps of the food supply chain can be targeted, from the way food is grown or produced to technologies used for its processing, distribution, and storage, and means for its transportation to retail stores and the consumers. The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations identified “eliminating hunger and malnutrition by 2030” as top priority, also highlighting the need of reaching all the other SDGs.
One of the challenges lies in the fact that we need to produce more food using less resources, namely, water and land, preserving biodiversity, preventing environmental pollution during food production, and decreasing all possibilities of food waste and losses in the food supply chain continuum. Last, but not least, we also need to find solutions to decrease the effect of climate change on food production, without jeopardizing food safety. That is why it is necessary to quantify and describe various factors linked to the food supply chain, such as carbon, water, and waste footprints.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect research papers related to various sustainable development goals from a food supply chain perspective. We especially welcome review articles that describe the current state of the art in relation to food sustainability.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Perspectives of ending poverty through sustainable food systems
- Role of sustainable diets in decreasing the number of the undernourished and in preventing malnutrition
- Sustainable food production and sustainable food consumption
- Trust in the food supply chain from a sustainable point of view
- Consumer perceptions related to sustainable food consumption
- Risks and benefits of using oceans, seas, and marine resources in food sustainability
- Food–water–energy nexus
- Climate change and food safety
- Combating climate change effects on food production
- Perspectives for decreasing the effects of climate change on sustainable food production
- Food and environmental law in promoting sustainable development goals
- Food waste and losses and SDGs
Prof. Dr. Ilija Djekic
Prof. Dr. Anet Režek Jambrak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability
- sustainable development
- SD goals
- 2030 Agenda
- life-cycle sustainability assessment
- food sustainability
- sustainable food systems
- sustainable diets
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