Circular Economy for a Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain: A Review for Current Trends and Future Pathways

Chiaraluce, Giulia; Bentivoglio, Deborah; Finco, Adele

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“…Agriculture is well adapted to the precepts of the CE as an economic concept included in the framework of sustainable development [16][17][18]. This comprises a set of human actions dedicated to the transformation of the natural environment to provide the world's food, which depends on both the climate and the techniques implemented to make the land fertile.…”

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An Evolutionary Approach on the Framework of Circular Economy Applied to Agriculture

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In this current and global context led by scarcity of resources, environmental degradation, global climate change, and a progressive demand for food, the circular economy (CE) represents a key economic model or framework for sustainable, restorative, and regenerative agriculture. Hence, CE applied to agriculture seeks to close the life cycle of products, services, waste, water, and energy to obtain a better use of resources and a reduction of the ecological impact. An initial review of the literature corroborates the hypothesis that the CE framework has not yet been comprehensively adapted to the field of agriculture. This research seeks to overcome this gap in relation to the performance of the circularity of agricultural production systems in support of decision-making processes. A bibliometric analysis of 1060 documents was carried to synthesize the knowledge base on this topic. The results show recent studies that identify weaknesses derived from food production, such as waste generation, biomass, water pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions. It has been identified how their analysis has developed to date and what terms allow us to visualize new approaches; consequently, it is a useful tool for researchers and sponsors who provide financial resources for the development of new lines of research.

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“…(Figure 6). The circular economy is a new economic model, in which the old "do-it-take-away" structure wants to be replaced by a circular approach based on the "3R" principles of "reductionreuse-recycling" (Chiaraluce et al, 2021). Regarding the frequency of co-authors, depending on the country, it is observed the degree of relationship between countries and the interest given to the concept of "circularity" (Figure 7).…”

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Durability, circularity and sustainability in the food market – bibliometric analysis

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Stoian

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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The circular economy deviates from the classical, economic, traditional, linear model, based on large amounts of materials and energy, easily accessibles Circular economy concept has become increasingly popular, gaining popularity among both researchers and practitioners. The transition to a circular economy is an opportunity to change the current economy and make it more sustainable, helping to achieve environmental and climate goals and principles and protecting existing resources. The aim of the paper is to highlight the importance of the concept of sustainability and circularity in the food market as well as to highlight the connection with other topics. To achieve this goal, a review of the literature was performed by querying Web of Science databases, while performing a bibliometric analysis. The results show a major interest for the sustainability and circularity concepts in the food market, due to the exponential growth of items in recent times. By searching the Web of Science database, 1793 scientific documents were found by the keyword “food sustainability”, 6354 documents containing the keyword “circularity” and over 33.3 thousand documents on the topic of “sustainability”. These keywords were found at least in the title, abstract, or keywords of the document.

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“…Chiaraluce et al ( 2021 ) concluded the circular economy is a concept that represents a novel economic model, where the old linear "make-use-dispose" wants to be replaced initially by a circular approach based on the “3R” principles “reduction-reuse-recycling”.…”

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Bioindicators for the Sustainability of Sugar Agro-Industry

Aguilar‐Rivera

2022

Sugar Tech

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The worldwide sugar industry presents a productive inertia and a fragile sustainability due to there are marginal advances in the productivity, productive diversification, and reduction of the environmental impact in cane crop fields, sugar factories, distilleries, and non-centrifuged sugar production. The complexity of sustainability evaluation in sugar industry is highlighted by the incorporation of many criteria including both quantitative and qualitative issues, measured by different units or at least the development of standards for benchmarking. The key to successful sustainability will ultimately depend on the progress in sugarcane productivity without increasing the cultivated area and decreases the environmental impacts without the lack of coordination between public policies, stakeholders, and markets which would have benefits and wellness on social, economic, and environmental aspects. The aim of this research was to carry out a review about the sustainability frameworks, indicators, constraints, and barrier to transit the sugar industry to sustainability. The results present opportunities and strengths of sugar industry related to 2030 agenda for sustainable development and circular economy as an useful guidance to formulate strategies to maximizing the potential of the sugar industry to a sustainable biofactory.

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Circular Economy for a Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chain: A Review for Current Trends and Future Pathways

Cited by 66 publications

References 58 publications

An Evolutionary Approach on the Framework of Circular Economy Applied to Agriculture

An Evolutionary Approach on the Framework of Circular Economy Applied to Agriculture

Durability, circularity and sustainability in the food market – bibliometric analysis

Bioindicators for the Sustainability of Sugar Agro-Industry

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