Life cycle thinking is increasingly seen as a key concept for ensuring a transition towards
more sustainable production and consumption patterns. As food production systems and …

Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

The global agri-food sector is in a dire need of transitioning into sustainable consumption
and production patterns. The circular economy concept offers a viable pathway to improve …

Purpose This article introduces the special issue “LCA of nutrition and food consumption”
and 14 papers selected from the Ninth LCA Food Conference in San Francisco in October …

Most existing life cycle assessment studies that have compared the sustainability of organic
and conventional pork supply chains are environmental assessments. The economic and …

Biodiversity is vital in the functioning of ecosystems, but it's permanently being threatened by
anthropic impacts derived from productive activities. Thus, conservation has become a …

Cashew consumption has been increasing globally, but environmental issues through the
whole cashew supply chain, from production, processing and transportation, have been …

Food production has put enormous strain on the environment. Supply chain network design
provides a means to frame this issue in terms of strategic decision making. It has matured …

The aim of this study is to analyze the perception of the meaning of sustainability in the food
sector. A sample of 268 University students belonging to the Millennial generation was …

The challenge of feeding nine billion people by 2050, in a context of constrained resources
and growing environmental pressures posed by current food production methods on one …