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Case Studies on Sustainability in the Food Industry

Dealing With a Rapidly Growing Population

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Editors:
  1. Samuel O. Idowu

    1. Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK

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  2. René Schmidpeter

    1. M3TRIX Institute of Sustainable Business, Ingolstadt, Germany

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  • Serves as essential handbook for sustainable food production and consumption
  • Provides current cases of sustainability in the food sector
  • Presents cases from 16 countries worldwide

Part of the book series: Management for Professionals (MANAGPROF)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Securing Planetary Health and Sustainable Food Systems with Global Organic Agriculture: Best Practice from Austria

    • Ursula A. Vavrik
    Pages 1-48

  3. Barriers to Supply Chain Sustainability Innovation Amongst Nigerian Entrepreneurs in the Food and Agriculture Industry

    • Adebimpe Adesua Lincoln
    Pages 49-80

  4. Sustainable Supply Chains in Bolivia: Between Informality and Political Instability

    • Boris Christian Herbas-Torrico, Björn Frank, Carlos Alejandro Arandia-Tavera, Pamela Mirtha Zurita-Lara
    Pages 81-100

  5. Why Chicken? Fileni (Italy): Between Taste, Circular Economy and Attention to the Territory

    • Mara Del Baldo
    Pages 101-118

  6. Development and Planning of the Strategy against Food Waste in the Spanish Region of Cantabria

    • Elisa Baraibar-Diez, María D. Odriozola, Ladislao Luna, Ignacio Llorente, Antonio Martín, José Luis Fernández et al.
    Pages 119-134

  7. Food Security in South Africa: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic on Creating Sustainable Value Chains Through Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

    • Mikovhe Maphiri
    Pages 135-158

  8. Reducing Negative Environmental Impacts in Conventional Agriculture, but Not the Amount of Harvest: A Multi-stakeholder Joint Project in Conventional Citrus Production in Spain

    • Marina Beermann, Patrick Freund, Felipe Fuentelsaz
    Pages 159-183

  9. Challenges in Malaysian’s Sustainability Efforts: The Role of Traceability in the Food Industry

    • Sam Sarpong, Ali Saleh Ahmed Alarussi, Faizah Shahudin
    Pages 185-201

  10. Food Waste in Romania from an Individual and a National Perspective

    • Silvia Puiu, Nicoleta Mihaela Florea
    Pages 203-228

  11. Sustainable Food Production in Serbia, an Exploration of Discourse/Practice in Early 2020s

    • Milan Todorovic
    Pages 229-270

  12. Sustainability Challenges and the Way Forward in the Tea Industry: The Case of Sri Lanka

    • Y. Alahakoon, Mahendra Peiris, Nuwan Gunarathne
    Pages 271-292

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 293-297
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About this book

The world's population continues to grow year after year, putting pressure on all global resources. This book provides examples of how we can deal with all the challenges associated with aspects of population growth in the quest for sustainable development. It presents case studies on different areas of sustainability in the food industry, which includes food production and consumption. The collection of illustrative examples includes cases from agriculture and fisheries, the food refining sector, the supply chain, wholesale and retail channels, and other relevant aspects that enhance our understanding of how sustainability takes place in this global sector. The book will appeal to a wide readership, from practitioners to researchers, teachers and students worldwide.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Guildhall School of Business and Law, London Metropolitan University, London, UK

    Samuel O. Idowu

  • M3TRIX Institute of Sustainable Business, Ingolstadt, Germany

    René Schmidpeter

About the editors

Dr. Samuel O Idowu, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Corporate Social Responsibility at London Guildhall School of Business & Law, London Metropolitan University, UK. He researches in the fields of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Corporate Governance, Business Ethics and Accounting and has published in both professional and academic journals since 1989. Samuel is the Deputy CEO and First Vice President of the Global Corporate Governance Institute. He is the Editor-in-Chief of three Springer reference books – the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (2013), the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility (2015) and the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management (forthcoming in 2021). He is an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility (IJCSR) and Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Economics and Business Administration (AJEBA). He is also a series editor for Springer’s books on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance.  René Schmidpeter is founder of the M3TRIX Institute for Sustainable Business Transformation in Cologne, Germany. He holds professorships at various universities and research centers in Europe, Asia and Australia. He is series editor for Springer’s CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance books, and section editor of the Encyclopedia of Corporate Social Responsibility (ECSR), editor of the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility (DCSR) as well as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of CSR (Springer) and the Encyclopedia of Sustainable Management (ESM). His research and teaching activities focus on the management of Corporate Social Responsibility, international perspectives on CSR, social innovation and sustainable entrepreneurship as well as the relationship between business and society.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Case Studies on Sustainability in the Food Industry

  • Book Subtitle: Dealing With a Rapidly Growing Population

  • Editors: Samuel O. Idowu, René Schmidpeter

  • Series Title: Management for Professionals

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07742-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07741-8Published: 25 September 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07744-9Published: 26 September 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07742-5Published: 23 September 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2192-8096

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-810X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 297

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Industries, Sustainable Development, Trade, Agriculture, Business Ethics

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