Sustainability in Food Supply Chains: Case of Southeast Asia

Abstract

AbstractFood products go through a chain of various markets and companies to be approachable for human consumption; this phenomenon is termed as food supply chain. With the demands of information about the food from farm till it gets to consumers, food supply chains worldwide have opted newer ways to function, allowing consumers to control what they eat. Most of the Southeast Asian countries are making their way toward getting into the race of developed economies, where food supply chains contribute to the countries’ economies by the export business. With the food chains, food safety is one of the major concerns that can bring damage to whole export systems; therefore, various technologies and better practices are introduced. In this chapter, a study was conducted at a coffee and bakery shop in Bangkok, Thailand, to understand the supply chain and various food safety measures being taken at its scale. Moreover, every resource has limits, and if exploited, it can result in scarcity of the same resource. Careless production and processing practices of food products can pose threats to the sustainability of various other natural resources; food waste is one of such major threats; therefore, various possible ways of food waste management from various literature are enlisted in this chapter.KeywordsSustainabilityFood supply chainsCoffee and bakeryFood waste management