Sustainability assessment of food supply chains: an application to local and global bread in Italy

Agricultural and Food Economics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Galli, Francesca ^a   Bartolini, Fabio ^a   Brunori, Gianluca ^a   Colombo, Luca ^b   Gava, Oriana ^a   Grando, Stefano ^b   Marescotti, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Fondazione Italiana per la Ricerca in Agricoltura Biologica e Biodinamica c o Citt dell Altra Economia   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bread; Food supply chain; Global; Local; Sustainability assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018500902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21937532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40100-015-0039-0     Document Type: Article

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