This paper proposes a template to assist food value chain actors in their collaborative efforts to develop common sustainable strategies and business models. Inspired by the simplicity of the Business Model Canvas, the template reintroduces sustainable practices as a support for management solutions for sustainable food value chains. The template requires cooperation between actors and stakeholders and comprises three steps: (1) identification of needs for sustainability; (2) development of value chain practices aimed to deliver sustainable value, and assignment of responsibilities to actors for these practices; and (3) formulation of a sustainable value proposition. The template also allows a simple graphical representation of sustainability in value chains, which helps improve communication between actors, and allows stakeholders to be kept informed. The template is applied to a sustainable pork value chain to illustrate how it captures various aspects of sustainability in the pork industry.
RESEARCH ARTICLE
A template for sustainable food value chains
Elena Monastyrnaya Related information
*Corresponding author: elena. monastyrnaya@usys. ethz. ch
aPhD student, Laboratoire Genie Industriel, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, 3 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences and Technologies, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30 Avenue Lenin, 634050 Tomsk, Russia.
, Gwenola Yannou Le Bris Related informationaPhD student, Laboratoire Genie Industriel, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, 3 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland; Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences and Technologies, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 30 Avenue Lenin, 634050 Tomsk, Russia.
bAssociate Professor, Laboratoire Genie Industriel, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, 3 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France; UMR GENIAL, AgroParisTech, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91300 Massy, France.
, Bernard Yannou Related informationcProfessor, Laboratoire Genie Industriel, CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, 3 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
, Gaëlle Petit Related informationdPhD student, UMR GENIAL, AgroParisTech, INRA, Université Paris-Saclay, 91300 Massy, France.
International Food and Agribusiness Management Review: 20
(4)- Pages: 461 - 476
Published Online: May 30, 2017
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