Abstract
Today, with the daily increase in population, the demand for agricultural and/or, in general, food products continuously raises and so does the natural resources consumption which induces challenges to the supply chain management of important food products. In the present study, drivers as well as barriers of the agriculture sustainable supply chain are identified and ranked with the help of multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. We identify six drivers and seven barriers with the help of experts’ opinions in the field and apply ranking methods including TOPSIS-AHP, AHP, and COPRAS-AHP as well as Borda rule and Copeland method to merge the ratings. The results highlight that the economic dimension of sustainability is more important than the environmental and social dimension. Distrust of consumers, lack of understanding and awareness of managers, and performance appraisal problems were found to be the most important barriers. Furthermore, informing the community by the media, entering the global market, exporting products, and producing sustainable products as a competitive advantage were identified to be the most important drivers. The study also shows that public awareness and demands can push the food supply chains toward sustainability goals with the cooperation of governments and suppliers.
Highlights
Population growth raises the demand for food and the consumption of natural resources. e same is valid for growing emerging economies that have unprecedentedly improved the quality of life across the world while putting exceptional pressure on natural resources and the environment [1]. is influences the provision or production and supply of food and reveals problematic factors including food price variations, climate change induced growth problems, food waste, and food security, as well as inadequate governmental policies [2, 3]
E list of elements is provided in Table 3. ese elements have been derived by reviewing the literature, by observation, as well as expert interviews. e ranking methods AHP, TOPSIS-AHP, and Complex proportional assessment (COPRAS)-AHP are used within the
As described in detail in the previous section, three multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches, AHP, TOPSISAHP, and COPRAS-AHP, have been used in this study. e results of these methods are presented in the following
Summary
Population growth raises the demand for food and the consumption of natural resources. e same is valid for growing emerging economies that have unprecedentedly improved the quality of life across the world while putting exceptional pressure on natural resources and the environment [1]. is influences the provision or production and supply of food and reveals problematic factors including food price variations, climate change induced growth problems, food waste, and food security, as well as inadequate governmental policies [2, 3]. Population growth raises the demand for food and the consumption of natural resources. According to the Food Summit Meeting in 1991, food security is the case when the entire world population has physical, social, and economic access to sufficient healthy and nutritious food at any time for the conduct of active and healthy lives [4]. We understand sustainability as the quality that permits to preserve, to keep, and to maintain something [6] and, according to the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), using resources to meet the present needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own demands. Is involves a variety of economic, environmental, and social objectives [8] which companies need to equilibrate in order to attain higher levels of performance with respect to sustainability. Many trade-offs exist between the dimensions and objectives with different drivers
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