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Title:
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The Complexity of Food Systems: Defining Relevant Attributes and Indicators for the Evaluation of Food Supply Chains in Spain
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Author:
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Gamboa, Gonzalo; Kovacic, Zora; Di Masso, Marina; Mingorría, Sara; Gomiero, Tiziano; Rivera-Ferre, Marta G.; Giampietro, Mario
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Other authors:
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Universitat de Vic - Universitat Central de Catalunya. Facultat de Ciències i Tecnologia |
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Notes:
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The wide-ranging literature on food systems provides multiple perspectives and world
views. Various stakeholders define food and food systems in non-equivalent ways. The perception of
the performance of food systems is determined by these specific perspectives, and a wide variety of
policies responding to different aims are proposed and implemented accordingly. This paper sets
out to demonstrate that the pre-analytical adoption of different narratives about the food system
leads to non-equivalent assessments of the performance of food supply chains. In order to do so,
we (i) identify a set of relevant narratives on food supply chains in Spanish and Catalan contexts;
(ii) identify the pertinent attributes needed to describe and represent food supply chains within the
different perspectives or narratives; and (iii) carry out an integrated assessment of three organic
tomato supply chains from the different perspectives. In doing so, the paper proposes an analysis of
narratives to enable the analyst to characterize the performance of food supply chains from different
perspectives and to identify the expected trade-offs of integrated assessment, associating them with
the legitimate-but-contrasting views found among the social actors involved. |
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Subject(s):
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-Aliments
-Aliments -- Abastament |
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Rights:
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Aquest document està subjecte a aquesta llicència Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/es/
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Document type:
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Article
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Published by:
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Molecular Diversity Preservation International
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