Sustainable Development in the Food Supply Chain

There is great interest in localization and safety of food as there is increased number of people thinking about their health and becoming savvy about what they consume and how it affects the environment, so they increased responsiveness as well, which make think majority of companies to focus on sustainability strategy which comprises in itself environmental, social and economical pillar, in order to provide people with the safe, and healthy food with including food security, democracy, and sovereignty. Due to increasing world population, the environmental impact of food supply chain is getting bigger in global perspective and which cause companies to think how to provide more food which will not harm the environment and people. Research from different books and academic papers which is about sustainability in food supply chain has been taken into consideration. Hereafter, sustainability should be included in each phase of the food supply chain and cradle to cradle model should be used. Currently companies are focusing on sustainability more than before and want to use packaging which reduce the food waste and while recycling could cause less contamination.