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A sustainable food value chain is a food value chain that: • is profitable throughout all of its stages (economic sustainability); • has broad-based benefits for society (social sustainability); • has a positive or neutral impact on the natural environment (environmental sustainability)
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SFVC development is a market-oriented and systems-based approach for measuring, analysing and improving the performance of food value chains (FVCs) in ways that help ensure their economic, social and environmental sustainability.
More sustainable and responsible food supply chains are a powerful tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Food supply chains connect billions of consumers to producers around the world, creating livelihoods for people in farming, fishing, and many other stages of the supply chain.
For the purposes of this publication, a sustainable food value chain (SFVC) is defined as: the full range of farms and firms and their successive coordinated value-adding activities that produce particular raw agricultural materials and transform them
sustainable food system lies at the heart of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Adopted in 2015, the SDGs call for major transformations in agriculture and food systems in order to end hunger, achieve food security and improve nutrition by 2030.
5 sty 2024 · The global food system has been undergoing significant transformations in recent years, with an increasing emphasis on sustainability, local sourcing, and direct producer-consumer relationships. At the heart of these changes is the concept of the Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC).
The approach takes a systems perspective, analysing the behaviour and performance of value chain actors influenced by a complex environment. Value chain upgrading is based on the identification of systemic causes of value chain bottlenecks and centres on the development of systems-based solutions.