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This article is based on a qualitative focus group study regarding consumer perceptions about the sustainability of … locally produced food supply chains. Sustainability perceptions were analyzed through thematic content analysis, where the … findings, the socio-cultural aspects encompassing locally produced food form the most important sustainability dimension for …
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As many of us begin to embrace the concept of sustainability, we realize that it is not simply something that we ‘do ….’ Rather, sustainability is a destination that we aspire to reach with the selection of the sustainable pathways that we choose … as we proceed along the journey. We are embarking on a new journey with the creation of <i>Sustainability</i>, an on …
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Despite the plethora of literature in sustainability and supply chain management in the recent years, a quantitative … tool that measures the sustainability performance of an industrial supply network, considering the uncertainties of … existing data, is hard to find. This conceptual paper is aimed at establishing a quantitative measure for the sustainability …
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The necessity of sustainability evaluation is rapidly growing alongside the expansion of civilization. Likewise, the … organizational sustainability. This proposal was applied to evaluate a representative set of companies, which are suppliers of the … companies have not yet reached an advanced level of maturity in the sustainability context. In a comprehensive vision of …
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Sustainability is significantly important for fashion business due to consumers’ increasing awareness of environment …. When a fashion company aims to promote sustainability, the main linkage is to develop a sustainable supply chain. This …
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cereals and some vegetables. According to the literature, urine fertilised plants may have produced higher, similar or …
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Previous studies have shown that organically produced food has lower risks of pesticide contamination than food that is not organically produced. However, organically produced food is not entirely free of pesticide residues. A large, high-quality U.S. Department of Agriculture database reports...
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were embedded in a supermarket distribution system and they provided the same amount of comparable vegetables at the …
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and financial sustainability of organic farming respect to conventional farming. The higher profitability of organic … Mediterranean tree crops. In this paper we have evaluated the economic and financial sustainability of lemon production, both in … price respect to conventional prices. Moreover, greater profitability of organic farming and use of environmentally friendly …
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the cereal steppes of Castile, Spain. An indicator based on each production system’s profitability threshold was built …
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