Achievements in the Agri-Food Supply Chain Leading to Sustainable Foods IV
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Food".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 May 2025 | Viewed by 46
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Interests: food business management of innovation
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Dear Colleagues,
We started the series of these Special Issues on the agri-food supply chain (AFSC) in 2021, promoting innovative methods and research for a sustainable chain in view of the foreseen economic and social changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which had ended then. The first Special Issue in 2021 was indeed entitled “Innovative Agrifood Supply Chain in the Post-COVID 19 Era”. Contrary to the predictions of 2021 for a termination of changes caused by the pandemic, in the next year, 2022, the war in Ukraine caused a new global crisis not only in energy but in food too. The second Special Issue in 2022, a continuation of the first one, was therefore entitled “Prospects Challenges and Sustainability of the Agri-Food Supply Chain in the New Global Economy II”. In the first part of 2023, no major global events were recorded, predicting normal global growth, and it was for that reason we opened the third Special Issue, a continuation of the second one, entitled “Scientific Advancements for an Innovative Agri-Food Supply Chain towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals III”. The war in the Middle East, which started at the end of 2023 and continues in an unpredictable way, indicates that the world is constantly changing from now on with no realistic expectation for the future! Therefore, we are now opening the fourth Special Issue, on the same research and innovation topic of the AFSC, with no specific future forecast limiting the expectations to “sustainable foods”, entitled “Achievements in the Agri-Food Supply Chain Leading to Sustainable Foods IV”.
In this fourth volume of the Special Issue on the AFSC, at the center of recruiting papers is therefore contributions to “sustainable foods” at the end of the chain, and all the intermediary parameters that lead to them. Creativity, knowhow, research and technology, financial resources, and innovation in all aspects of the chain achieving sustainable foods is welcomed. Emphasis is given to research contributions and reviews on the sustainability of the food chain, which can be derived from results and achievements in innovation pathways, innovative foods, food safety, new technologies, food processes, consumers’ perceptions of foods, etc. Submissions can also include research topics on innovative food solutions tackling environment issues and conservation, climate changes, and crises.
Dr. Dimitris Skalkos
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- agri-food supply chain (AFSC)
- global economy
- food products
- technologies and innovation
- consumers’ attitudes and perceptions towards foods
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- Prospects Challenges and Sustainability of the Agri-Food Supply Chain in the New Global Economy II in Sustainability (13 articles)
- Scientific Advancements for an Innovative Agri-Food Supply Chain towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals III in Sustainability (13 articles)
