Sustainability risk management in the agri-food supply chain: literature review

Abstract

Maintaining an effective risk management procedure can counterbalance a critical effect on supply chains. The Agri-food supply chain has characteristics that are unique and complex if compared with a conventional supply chain. Sustainability risk management in the supply chain is the key to a competitive organisation in the long term. The aim of this paper is to review current research on sustainable risk management in the Agri-food industry chain. These reviews were arranged in steps systematically, ranging from searching related to review of supply chain sustainability risk management (SCSRM), reviewing the general framework of SCSRM and the framework of Agri-food SCSRM. Selection of literature review papers in the period 2010-2019, and obtained 30 papers. Risk aspects were analysed using a multi-dimensional approach (economic, social, environmental, technical, and institutional) that influences the sustainability of the Agri-food industry. The results show that there are few studies focusing on risk management to achieve a sustainable supply chain system. Some studies only focus on Triple Bottom Line elements (economic, social, and environmental). Sometimes, these studies do not consider risks from other elements such as technical and institutional aspects that can be influence the sustainability of the Agri-food industry. Technical aspects such as the reliability of technological systems and institutional aspects as policymakers support sustainability in a business process. The contribution of this paper is to provide an initial theoretical framework to guide researchers in analysing risk through a multi-dimensional approach to sustainability.

La prise en compte des risques ESG dans les entreprises agroalimentaires québécoises

“…Dans de nombreux pays en développement, le secteur agroalimentaire représente l'une des principales sources d'emplois et, à l'échelle internationale, une forte proportion des problèmes concernant les droits des travailleurs -travail forcé, travail des enfants, esclavage économique -concerne les activités agricoles et agroalimentaires (Centre international de solidarité ouvrière, 2020). Les activités de ce secteur peuvent également avoir des impacts significatifs sur la santé et sur divers enjeux environnementaux saillants, comme les changements climatiques, la perte de biodiversité, la contamination des sols, la pénurie d'eau potable ou encore la prolifération des emballages plastiques (Choirun et al, 2020;Maloni et Brown, 2006;Rajic et al, 2022). Par exemple, on estime que la production alimentaire est responsable d'environ 37 % des émissions de GES dans le monde (Charles, 2021).…”

Food Safety in Foreign Trade of Agricultural and Food Products: Evaluation of Risk Analysis Stages and Process

“…For effective and accurate risk management businesses should do to follow the supply chain, which includes the production, processing, and distribution process, with traceability (Yaralı 2019). The agriculture and food industry must be sustainable to essential because they have a complex structure supply chain (Choirun et al 2020). For this purpose, it is aimed to control the comprehensive and complex food supply chain by evaluating the danger with traceability and scientific data thanks to food safety management systems, especially HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) (Walsh and Leva 2019).…”

Supply chain sustainability risk decision support model using integrated Preference Selection Index (PSI) method and prospect theory

“…In assisting to a better understanding of supply chain risk typologies, several taxonomies of supply chain risks have been earlier reported by Rangel et al (2015), Hudnurkar et al (2017), Shahbaz et al (2019) and Imbiri et al (2021). Meanwhile, considering the categorization of sustainability supply chain risks, a classification model of sustainability risk taxonomy can be referred to in the work of Choirun et al (2020). Considering its growing importance in affecting enterprise business continuity and increasing complexities of supply chain structure, by adopting multi-criteria risk decision-making tools classification model presented in the work of Gugaliya et al (2019) and supply chain risk decision-making model of Anilkumar and Sridharan (2019), scientific studies devoted to improving methodologies in evaluating sustainability risks in the supply chain area are growing as represented in Table 1.…”

“…(2021). Meanwhile, considering the categorization of sustainability supply chain risks, a classification model of sustainability risk taxonomy can be referred to in the work of Choirun et al. (2020).…”