Contemporary Issues in Food Supply Chain Management

Audience: undergraduate and postgraduate students studying towards a hospitality, tourism management and food related qualifications

Key Selling Points:

- Examines the issues facing the food industries in current times

- Offers an integrated and holistic approach to the issues facing the food supply chain

- Would be of interest to a range of undergraduate courses both in the UK, EU and globally

- Examines key areas of food security, traceability of food, environmental impact of food production and health

Description:

This vital new text offers a holistic view of the factors affecting the different tiers of sustainability, public health, poverty, security and production within the food supply chain. With contributions from international experts in the field, it takes particular emphasis on growing populations and the deployment of agricultural land for uses other than food.

Designed to examine issues facing the food supply chain, including food supply and security, Contemporary Issues in Food Supply Chain Management considers supply security in terms of food availability, traceability, the delivery of a sustainable diet, technological changes and the impact of current governance structures. It revolves around the central theme of supply chains and the management of supply, but notes that a safe, effective food supply system is fraught with complexities, dichotomies and paradoxes.

Divided into three parts it tackles issues in the following areas:

- The supply chain — problems and dilemmas

- Food security and sustainability;

- Case studies and new areas of research

It examines issues within these areas and highlights to the reader the level of interconnectivity and tensions in the delivery of food security and economic, social and environmental sustainability and the provision of safe and nutritious diets.