Local food systems: Reviewing two decades of research

Enthoven, Laura; Broeck, Goedele Van den

doi:10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103226

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“…The farmers or small-and medium-sized firms with limited technological expertise and financial resources may encounter the inability to adopt blockchain [106]. Moreover, the other challenge is related to the efficiency of governance since the LFSC could take a range of various forms of organization and selling arrangements between producers and buyers, different forms of interaction between consumers and producers, and different levels of commitment from consumers [107].…”

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Blockchain Technology toward Creating a Smart Local Food Supply Chain

Sekuloska

Erceg

2022

Computers

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The primary purpose of the supply chains is to ensure and secure the availability and smooth flow of the necessary resources for efficient production processes and consumption. Supply chain activities have been experiencing significant changes due to the importance and creation of the integrated process. Blockchain is viewed as an innovative tool for transforming supply chain management’s (SCM’s) actual business model; on the other hand, the SCM provides an applicative value of blockchain technology. The research is focused on examining the influence of blockchain technology on the increasing efficiency, transparency, auditability, traceability, and security issues of the food supply chain (FSC), with particular attention to the local food supply chain (LFSC). The main objective of the research is to suggest the implementation of blockchain technology in the local food supply chain as a niche of the food industry. The result of the research is the identification of a three-layers model of a smart local food supply chain. The model provides efficient and more transparent tracking across the local food supply chain, improving food accessibility, traceability, and safety.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Blockchain Technology toward Creating a Smart Local Food Supply Chain

Sekuloska

Erceg

2022

Computers

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“…According to the literature on the "local food system", there are two types of the supply chain used by this system, (i) direct-to-retail and (ii) direct-to-consumer [41]. We compared two aspects of resilience as mentioned above and three aspects related to local food systems, namely, producer-buyer selling arrangement [42,43], producer-consumer interaction [44,45], and proximity, which are further categorized into three domains as follows: geographical proximity (e.g., physical locality, the distance between the food production site and consumption site), relational proximity (e.g., close relationship between the buyers and the producers within the agri-food system) and proximity in values (e.g., place of origin, traceability, freshness, quality [46].…”

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Shared Logistic Service for Resilient Agri-Food System: Study of E-Commerce for Local and B2B Markets in Japan

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Escalating intensification and homogenization occurring throughout the supply chain poses serious challenges to the global food supply. Several approaches have been developed to shift the food systems to a more resilient path; however, the high unit costs of shipping impede its development. This paper proposes a shared logistic service supported by E-commerce as a solution to this problem. It analyzes the shared logistic system developed by Vegibus Ins. in Japan which has unique features, such as fixed routes. It argues that the logistic service has the ability to connect different scales while supporting flexible transactions leading to the construction of a resilient agri-food system. At the same time, the paper points out the need for subsidies from the governments to facilitate this kind of shared logistic service at the initial stage as one limitation to this approach.

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“…(2) producer and consumer interactions, including social, cultural, environmental and other values that motivate and influence or motivate the production and consumption of local food; and (3) consumer commitment, consumer involvement, prosumption and non-economic values embedded in certain types of local food (Enthoven and Van den Broeck, 2021).…”

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“…, 2003). The local food discussion includes three main furrows: (1) producer–buyer selling arrangements, food schemes, sales channels and organizational solutions in the establishment of short food chains; (2) producer and consumer interactions, including social, cultural, environmental and other values that motivate and influence or motivate the production and consumption of local food; and (3) consumer commitment, consumer involvement, prosumption and non-economic values embedded in certain types of local food (Enthoven and Van den Broeck, 2021).…”

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Bringing innovation back in–strategies and driving forces behind entrepreneurial responses in small-scale rural industries in Sweden

Rytkönen

Oghazi

2021

BFJ

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PurposeThe paper contributes to the debate about local food and conceptualization of rural entrepreneurship by analysing the performance of small-scale dairies departing from their relation to innovations, innovative activities and risk.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use phenomenography to identify representative categories, and to draw conclusions about how these are consistent or different from dominant definitions of rural entrepreneurship and self-employment. The authors conducted semi-structured interviews, participatory workshops and compiled a database of all small-scale dairies established between 1968 and 2020.FindingsA focus on innovations contributes to differentiate between rural entrepreneurship and self-employment and how these interact in the process of economic growth. Innovations are seldom disruptive. Instead, innovative behaviour is strongly related to business models and to imitation. Social capital and collective action play a key role for the innovative capacity of small businesses, especially to realize disruptive innovations, such as the establishment of a new market.Research limitations/implicationsThe innovative capacity of rural businesses can be understood through their ability to break patterns, alter institutions and turn embededdness into assets. Rural entrepreneurship and self-employment are intertwined in the economic growth process.Practical implicationsInnovative behaviour is a significant aspect for firm survival over time, and it is also strongly related to new business models. Most rural firms can be characterized as self-employment, the latter are essential because they provide rural livelihoods and help bring maturity to newly established markets.Social implicationsThe right type of support, e.g. adopting enabling industrial regulations and granting access to constructive experiences of others, contributes to the innovative behaviour of small-scale rural firms.Originality/valueThis study differentiates rural entrepreneurship from rural self-employment by analysing the role of innovation. The authors show how innovations and innovative behaviour work their way through the process of economic growth and how innovation can break patterns by turning rural embeddedness into assets; and how innovative behaviour related to self-employments contributes to the creation of value and interacts with entrepreneurship in the process of economic growth.

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Local food systems: Reviewing two decades of research

Cited by 153 publications

References 136 publications

Blockchain Technology toward Creating a Smart Local Food Supply Chain

Blockchain Technology toward Creating a Smart Local Food Supply Chain

Shared Logistic Service for Resilient Agri-Food System: Study of E-Commerce for Local and B2B Markets in Japan

Bringing innovation back in–strategies and driving forces behind entrepreneurial responses in small-scale rural industries in Sweden

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