Towards a Sustainable Agri-Food Chain: Safety Concerns and Green Solutions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2023) | Viewed by 14784
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food contamination; food safety; plasticizers; bisphenols; environmental pollutants; toxic and potentially toxic elements; pesticides; risk assessment
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Interests: characterization of food bioactives; food contaminants; analytical methods in food analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The modern agri-food chain involves multiple actors with different interests, multiple stages, and, not least, multiple risks requiring complex, multilateral, and multilevel governance on a large scale. In recent years, diverse chemical, biological, and environmental risks (e.g., natural toxins, anthropogenic pollutants, food-borne pathogens, GHG emissions, and resource depletion) to or caused by the agri-food chain, due to accidents, process and waste mismanagement, and internal/external contamination sources, have inevitably treathened the sustainability and the healthiness of the chain itself.
Against this background, and in line with the Farm to Fork Strategy, which represents the core of the European Green Deal, the agri-food system requires major transformations on behalf of promoting sustainability, reducing waste, and stimulating a change toward healthy and safe diets.
Hence, review and original research articles on innovative and green approaches/solutions aiming at the (i) reduction in food contamination, (ii) minimization of food loss and waste, and (iii) change toward plant-based diets are of great interest to this Special Issue.
The hope is that this Special Issue will emphasize the potential for multidisciplinary approaches to the complex set of challenges observed in the multiple processes and stages of the agri-food chain, in the perspective of achieving a more productive agri-food system without compromising the sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Giuseppa Di Bella
Dr. Ambrogina Albergamo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food waste
- food contamination
- sustainable agri-food chain
- circular economy
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