Abstract
The agri-food logistics chains face guarantee the greatest extending of sustainability practices in the management of the entire supply chain. The use of management and marketing tools and of innovative legal and economic institutes, also in the agri-food sector, is fundamental to guaranteeing an increasingly “cleaner” agriculture, in order to introduce more and more organic and eco-sustainable food products and safe for the health and well-being of living beings on the market. However, the joint use of these tools does not yet seem to be fully exploited, particularly in South-Italy. In this sense, the territories limit of potential eco-sustainable development tools deriving from the agri-food logistics chains, also in terms of territorial and tourism development of entire areas. Drawing upon the experiences of innovative projects oriented to eco-sustainability that have implemented mechanisms of continuous improvement in the agri-food sector, through the achievement of high levels of technological, methodological and organizational innovation, some implications for how to implement territorial development policies guided by sustainability can be found. In this paper, the changes that the agri-food sector has undergone will be discussed and possible scenarios of territorial and tourism development supported by the agri-food logistics chains will be suggested, two macro areas covered by the three pillars of sustainability, environmental, economic and social.
Highlights
In the last twenty years, the theme of sustainability has assumed great importance and has strongly changed the economic, social and environmental status quo on a global level (Pope, Annandale, & Morrison-Saunders, 2004; Rama et al, 2020)
It would be interesting to design an agri-food tourist attraction centre in Southern Italy. It would be interesting even for agricultural businesses in the area to replicate these innovative models contextualized in the various reference sectors and, to evaluate the opportunity to integrate activities and services other than those of the agri-food production sector, in order to expand the territorial tourist offer from a sustainable perspective. The goal of this analysis was to understand and explore how the implementation of innovative tools for eco-sustainability within the agri-food logistics chain is spreading throughout the Italian national territory
Logistics has become a real strategic endeavour, especially in the competitive context of agri-food companies. The deepening of these concepts in both a theoretical and entrepreneurial vision allowed us, firstly, to identify the methodologies already applied on the Italian territory, and secondly, to examine the implications of state-of-the-art literature in the fields of management, marketing, and economic law for the sustainable development of agri-food logistics systems
Summary
In the last twenty years, the theme of sustainability has assumed great importance and has strongly changed the economic, social and environmental status quo on a global level (Pope, Annandale, & Morrison-Saunders, 2004; Rama et al, 2020). It has been recognized that the implementation of these strategies in certain territories will play a central role These regions are called to face important challenges for their sustainable development (Barile et al, 2013; Paniccia et al, 2017; Ugolini, 2010) so that they guarantee a vigorous resilience to future adversity the populations residing there (De Rosa, 2019; Mazzeo, 2018). In this context, territorial systems must be able to withstand the complexity and speed of socio-economic, technological, and environmental changes that are taking place to ensure their survival (Colella, 2019). Considering the objectives set in the 2030 Agenda action plan, these regions must take care to implement fruitful development policies that integrate the concept of sustainability from different points of view, such as production, consumption, infrastructure, and innovation, so as to make them real sustainable communities
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