Abstract
BackgroundFood supply chain companies are major link for safe food production and distribution. Food safety ensures reduced food losses and, therefore, contributes to food security. Although there have been extensive studies on the food industry with different perspectives, no study has so far been conducted on the challenges in terms of the food security. The present study is a qualitative one conducted in 2019 in one of the largest agricultural production chain companies in Khorasan Razavi province, Iran.ResultsThe research method was based on the conventional content analysis. Triangulation method was used for the data collection being a combination of the participant observations, focus group discussions (17 managers) and semi-structured interviews with the president of the company. Participants believed that their company plays an important role and has a prestigious position in the food security of Iran. However, the main challenges of the company are regulatory system, food safety risks, market unpredictability, traditional management and sanctions.ConclusionsThe company is highly resilient to all these challenges; however, the traditional management is still a serious disadvantage. This leads to the managers’ burnout along with the company survival problem, removing unfair sanctions and protecting agricultural development in developing countries is a necessity. In general, paying attention to the modern organizational management of these companies and their survival is an essential policy. For this reason, it is suggested that trust must be established between policymakers and companies on one hand and relationship between the academia and such companies to promote the organizational management on the other hand.
Highlights
Food supply chain companies are major link for safe food production and distribution
An adequate food security is the main issue [33,34,35] because there is a global demand for food [14]
Due to the importance and status of these industries, the present study aims to evaluate the meaning and concept of food security from the perspective of managers of one of the major poultry industries in Iran
Summary
Food supply chain companies are major link for safe food production and distribution. Four main elements of Whether we can feed the world is a question arising in the food security [16, 40] especially in developing countries In these countries, food insecurity is so vital since it is related to the intake of a number of unhealthy dietary items among the poorest households in urban India [30]. One of the new agricultural threats to Africa is that farmers are turning into non-agricultural activities such as illegal small-scale mining [2] It seems that the commercial and trade interest in a few countries hamper the welfare of millions of poor people living in developing ones [37]. Food security is linked to the consumption, production, and marketing of food, the functioning of factor markets especially for labor social safety nets, governmental and nongovernmental assistance agencies, initial asset and income distributions, and myriad other subjects across several disciplines [6]
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