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A food value chain (FVC) consists of all the stakeholders who participate in the coordinated production and value-adding activities that are needed to make food products. A sustainable food value chain is a food value chain that: • is profitable throughout all of its stages (economic sustainability);
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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
What is a Food Value Chain? Values-based supply chain or food value chain is defined as A strategic alliance between farmers or ranchers and other supply-chain partners that deal in significant volumes of high-quality, differentiated food products that distributes rewards equitably across the chain
Figure B10.2 illustrates the FAO sustainable food value chain development (SFVCD) framework. The SFVCD framework takes a dynamic, systems-based approach to measuring, understanding and improving the sustainability performance of the food value chains that make up food systems.
The food value chain is the network of stakeholders involved in growing, processing, and selling the food that consumers eat—from farm to table This includes
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.
Aimed at policy-makers, project designers and field practitioners, this publication defines the concept of a sustainable food value chain, presents a development paradigm that integrates the multidimensional concepts of sustainability and value added, highlights ten guiding principles, and discusses the potential and limitations of the approach.