Circular economy practices in a developing economy: Barriers to be defeated

Gedam, Vidyadhar V.; Raut, Rakesh D.; Jabbour, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa; Tanksale, Ajinkya; Narkhede, Balkrishna E.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127670

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“…Indeed, various studies demonstrate that bio-based products continue to face technological and operational impediments (Gatto and Re, 2021), making access to product and process innovations inside food enterprises challenging. Several barriers include: high investment costs (Unay-Gailhard and Bojnec, 2016; Jaeger and Upadhyay, 2020); lack of appropriate technology (Borrello et al, 2016;Clark et al, 2019;Farooque et al, 2019;Sharma et al, 2019;Gedam et al, 2021); lack of financial and government support (Rizos et al, 2015;Urbinati et al, 2017;Kirchherr et al, 2018;Mangla et al, 2018;Ranta et al, 2018;Farooque et al, 2019;Sharma et al, 2019); administrative burdens (Rizos et al, 2015); inadequate information management systems (Romero and Molina, 2011;Rizos et al, 2015); social barriers related to lack of interest and awareness by enterprises and customers (Kirchherr et al, 2018;Singh and Giacosa, 2019;Singh et al, 2021); lack of qualified personnel (de Jesus and Mendonça, 2018; Korhonen et al, 2018a,b;Stewart and Niero, 2018;Guldmann and Huulgaard, 2020); lack of support from top management, lack of circular design (Lahane et al, 2020); lack of network support (Jabbour et al, 2020;Jaeger and Upadhyay, 2020;Chhimwal et al, 2021); lack of know-how (Farooque et al, 2019;Sharma et al, 2019;Unay-Gailhard and Bojnec, 2021); lack of reverse logistics management (Borrello et al, 2016;Clark et al, 2019;Gedam et al, 2021); lack of cross-sectoral cooperation (Rizos et al, 2016;…”

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Eco-Innovations Transition of Agri-food Enterprises Into a Circular Economy

Hamam

D’Amico

Zarbà

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Eco-innovations that reduce the environmental effect of manufacturing and consumption are seen as critical components of sustainable development and a critical component of the transition to a circular economy. Food systems address the issue of food waste, which is generally acknowledged as a cost to the economy, the environment, and society. Eco-innovations seem to be critical for the food system's transformation to a more circular model centered on sustainable food production and processing. The goal of this paper was to determine the variables that influenced the introduction of product, process, organizational, and marketing innovations in European Union agri-food enterprises between 2012 and 2014. According to a preliminary analysis of the data, 57.40% of agribusinesses did not implement any form of innovation, which prompted the authors to study the difficulties surrounding innovation development over the 3-year reference period. Several key factors emerge as significant influences on the introduction of product innovations (0.055**); contractual requirements as significant influences on the introduction of process innovations (−0.081***); and environmental incentives as significant influences on the introduction of marketing innovations (0.062***). Additionally, product (0.704***) and process (1.051***) innovations tend to have a greater influence on enterprises' views of circular benefits. The investigation also demonstrates how enterprises and end users interpret the effect of various forms of innovation differently. Indeed, end users, in contrast to how enterprises understand it, believe that organizational (0.611***) and marketing (0.916***) innovations are critical in pursuing circular benefits.

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Eco-Innovations Transition of Agri-food Enterprises Into a Circular Economy

Hamam

D’Amico

Zarbà

et al. 2022

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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“…There is a lack of research assessing the environmental impact of supply chains. There is an absence of studies that use the result of environmental impact assessment to identify operationally and resource efficiencies in the food supply chain to develop a sustainable framework (Boccia et al, 2021; Gedam et al, 2021; Krishnan et al, 2020). On the other hand, Boccia et al (2021) suggested more attention on the importance of waste from the citrus processing process and its use as an innovation model to address present and future challenges from an environmental sustainability and CE perspective and also for therapeutic purposes for prophylaxis and treatment of pandemics such as Covid‐19.…”

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Circular economy of waste in agrifood supply chain: A review

Ouro‐Salim

Guarnieri

2022

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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Through a systematic literature review (SLR), this study aims to analyze the progress achieved in international literature regarding the circular economy (CE) of food waste. As a result, we realized that most of the authors considered had proposed different mathematical models, chemical and thermal treatment methods, statistical, and conceptual frameworks, besides that quantitative and qualitative studies to explain the processes related to the waste and CE in the agrifood sector. Furthermore, in business, management, and accounting, the CE of food waste focuses on added value and optimizing energy use rather than approaching the principles of reduction, reuse, and recycling. This study constitutes a first attempt at understanding the CE of food waste in business, management, and accounting fields of knowledge. This SLR can assist decision-makers, managers, and governments to formulate policies and strategies to effectively implement CE in agrifood supply chains.

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“…Counterintuitively, the authors find that analyzing complex targets in the sustainability area with the wrong methodological tools and along a misunderstood scale may lead to trade-off acceleration or the interruption of existing synergies. This highlights the fact that practical allocation decisions to implement CE policies aiming for sustainability are generally disconnected from the socioeconomic and environmental context because of the systems' complexity [22][23][24][25]. For instance, bio-waste recovery may be necessary to compensate for the lack of organic carbon in agricultural soils, to provide phosphorus and nitrogen to these, and to produce locally renewable energy or molecules with higher benefit.…”

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Theoretical Research on Circular Economy and Sustainability Trade-Offs and Synergies

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Circular economy (CE) and sustainability are interrelated, without being exchangeable. While sustainability tries to reconcile the management of productive resources with their increasing consumption, CE aims to make the productive process more efficient, reducing, reusing and recycling the results of the productive process as much as possible. The aim of this paper is to ascertain the systemic structure of interactions between sustainability and CE through the analysis of the existing literature from 2004 to 2021. For this purpose, a computational literature review and a content analysis of the main contributions of CE and sustainability, within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), were conducted. The results show that there is a positive impact of the synergy between CE strategies and certain SDGs. Specifically, the circular strategies that generate the greatest synergies have to do with preserving materials through recycling, downcycling, and the measurement of indicators or reference scenarios. This is what has led to the inclusion of these concepts in the formulation of policies and strategies, as their multidisciplinary nature allows them to have an impact on areas such as agriculture or innovation, which currently lack specific measures. Therefore, the knowledge derived from this study will contribute favorably to future decisions and actions to be considered, as there is still the potential to legislate in favor of an even more sustainable framework.

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Circular economy practices in a developing economy: Barriers to be defeated

Cited by 110 publications

References 67 publications

Eco-Innovations Transition of Agri-food Enterprises Into a Circular Economy

Eco-Innovations Transition of Agri-food Enterprises Into a Circular Economy

Circular economy of waste in agrifood supply chain: A review

Theoretical Research on Circular Economy and Sustainability Trade-Offs and Synergies

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