Collaborative Organization Models for Sustainable Development in the Agri-Food Sector

Salvatore Ammirato,Antonio Violi,Cinzia Raso,Massimiliano Ferrara,Alberto Michele Felicetti

doi:10.3390/su13042301

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Abstract

It is widely recognized that the adoption of collaborative organization models in the agri-food sector can help farmers in rural areas to reach sustainable development goals. In any case, a holistic and coherent view of sustainability, organizational models and supporting technologies in the agri-food sector is still not present in the scientific literature. With this paper, we aim to fill this gap and to propose a framework that is useful to help scholars and practitioners in analyzing and designing sustainable Collaborative Networks in the agri-food sector

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Many farmers have been forced to sell their farms and seek other jobs elsewhere, shifting economic activities and population to urban areas and exposing rural areas and rural communities to the risk of an economic, social and environmental decline [1]. Development strategies were mainly based on economic growth pathways and the assumption that urban areas provide higher standard of living than rural ones [2,3]. Several authors recognized the important role of agri-food sector in promoting sustainable development [4,5], highlighting the multifunctional contribution of agriculture in indicating evolutionary paths of differentiation and integration of revenues for farmers operating in areas characterized by evident territorial structural weaknesses [6]

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