Moving towards Sustainability in Food Chains: Dealing with Costs and Benefits

Gerhard Schiefer and Jivka Deiters

International Journal on Food System Dynamics, 2015, vol. 06, issue 01, 12

Abstract: Sustainability concerns are receiving increasingly attention by society and in turn, the food sector and consumers as the food sector’s final customers. Investments towards improvements in sustainability along the chain are usually not evenly distributed along the chain which affects the balance in the distribution of costs and returns. Transparency is a means for supporting an appropriate link between costs and returns. Various alternatives are being discussed. The chapter utilizes a case study approach for elaborating on the possibilities of regaining costs through price premiums, the communication of sustainability to consumers and the cooperation through horizontal and vertical networking alternatives that could support developments towards sustainability through gains in efficiency and concerted engagements in dealing with sustainability, costs and returns along the chain

Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Agricultural Finance; Demand and Price Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.199409

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