Combining eco-social and environmental indicators to assess the sustainability performance of a food value chain: A case study

Gaëlle Petit, Caroline Sablayrolles () and Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris ()
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Gaëlle Petit: GENIAL - Ingénierie, Procédés, Aliments - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroParisTech
Caroline Sablayrolles: CAI - Chimie Agro-Industrielle - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - ENSIACET - Ecole nationale supérieure des ingénieurs en arts chimiques et technologiques - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse - Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) - UT - Université de Toulouse
Gwenola Yannou-Le Bris: LGI - Laboratoire Génie Industriel - EA 2606 - CentraleSupélec, GENIAL - Ingénierie, Procédés, Aliments - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AgroParisTech

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Abstract: Stakeholders are increasingly demanding transparency on food value chain sustainability performance. Today there is no standard framework to meet this demand and support defining indicators to be used to conduct an overall sustainable performance assessment. This paper mobilizes existing frameworks and indicators to build new sustainable performance metrics for actors willing to work together for their value chain sustainability. Popular methods or tools for assessing dimensions of agrifood products or activities are selected and analyzed to determine how they could contribute to this metric. The analysis aims to distinguish the sustainable development pillars addressed (economic, environmental and/or social), the frames concerned (life cycle thinking or not; multi-actor or not), and the focus of performance measured (drivers, pressures, states, impacts, responses). This categorization is then used to develop a proposal for specifications adapted to food value chain sustainability performance assessment. The applicability of the framework is demonstrated through a case study in a pork agrifood value chain.

Keywords: Framework; Life cycle assessment; Indicator; Sustainability; Pork value chain; Metrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018, 191, pp.135-143. ⟨10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.156⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.04.156

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