Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Uttrakhand (UK) 247667, India.
Operations Management, Jindal Global Business School, O P Jindal Global University, Haryana, India.
Sci Total Environ. 2022 May 15;821:153411. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.153411. Epub 2022 Jan 29.
The sustainable food supply chain (SFSC) is a research area of global significance. The increasing number of research articles in SFSC justifies this. With 80% of publications in SFSC coming up in the last 7 years, this field is expanding and diversifying at a rapid rate. The research on sustainable food supply chain (SFSC) covers a wide variety of areas and has a wide range of research themes in FSC. To facilitate the theoretical understanding of SFSC, we have conducted a review of the literature on SFSC. With the aim to define prominent research themes in SFSC, we follow an integrated review approach of structured literature review (SLR), bibliometric analysis, and thematic analysis. Bibliometric analysis was conducted using the vosviewer software version 1.6.16. The thematic analysis identified- "Waste management", "SC sustainability and impact assessment", "Decision support", "Operations management and optimization", "Food quality and safety", "Sustainable business models", "Innovation and technological solution", "SC strategy", and "Social sustainability" as the key emergent themes. We discuss the conceptual and theoretical basis of each of these themes. "SC sustainability and impact assessment" is identified as the most dominant theme in SFSC. Innovation and technological solution is an emerging theme with many new publications related to disruptive technologies coming up. Research in collaboration and decision theory-based approaches is important to enable sustainability in FSC. Quantifying waste streams, identifying hotspots are important future directions of research in SFSCM. Circular economy, AFSC, and the use of advanced technologies to enable circularity and sustainability also have great scope. The review aims to help researchers and academicians understand the boundaries and domain of SFSC and the future scope of these themes about how they can enhance the sustainability in SFSC.
可持续食品供应链（SFSC）是一个具有全球意义的研究领域。越来越多的关于 SFSC 的研究文章证明了这一点。在 SFSC 中，有 80%的出版物是在过去 7 年中出现的，这一领域正在以快速的速度扩展和多样化。可持续食品供应链（SFSC）的研究涵盖了广泛的领域，并且在 FSC 中有广泛的研究主题。为了促进对 SFSC 的理论理解，我们对 SFSC 的文献进行了回顾。为了确定 SFSC 中的突出研究主题，我们采用了结构化文献综述（SLR）、文献计量分析和主题分析相结合的综合回顾方法。文献计量分析使用 vosviewer 软件版本 1.6.16 进行。主题分析确定了“废物管理”、“SC 可持续性和影响评估”、“决策支持”、“运营管理和优化”、“食品质量和安全”、“可持续商业模式”、“创新和技术解决方案”、“SC 战略”和“社会可持续性”作为关键新兴主题。我们讨论了这些主题中的每一个的概念和理论基础。“SC 可持续性和影响评估”是 SFSC 中最主要的主题。创新和技术解决方案是一个新兴主题，有许多与颠覆性技术相关的新出版物出现。基于合作和决策理论方法的研究对于实现 FSC 的可持续性很重要。量化废物流、识别热点是 SFSCM 未来研究的重要方向。循环经济、AFSC 以及使用先进技术来实现循环和可持续性也有很大的发展空间。本综述旨在帮助研究人员和学者了解 SFSC 的边界和领域，以及这些主题在增强 SFSC 可持续性方面的未来范围。
