A new multidimensional indicator to measure the agrifood sustainability

Andrea Mecca (), Emanuele Giordano () and Francesca Gagliardi ()

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: The main objective of the paper is to provide a step-by-step procedure for the construction of a multidimensional indicator for measuring the sustainability of businesses and food chains. We first propose a short review of the literature on composite sustainability indicators and a theoretical overview of the statistical methods used in the various phases of their construction, such as topic-modelling techniques and multivariate methods for identifying latent dimensions and defining appropriate weights for aggregation. We adopt a multidimensional double fuzzy set approach, widely used in poverty measurement. The indicator is then applied to the 20 Italian regions with reference to a special data set of 2021, which is the last available survey year

Keywords: agrifood; sustainability; measures; fuzzy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C83 Q01 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04
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