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The Sustainability of Urban Food Systems: The Case of Mozzarella Production in the City of Milan

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: The Sustainability of Urban Food Systems: The Case of Mozzarella Production in the City of Milan
المؤلفون: Marta Castrica, Vera Ventura, Sara Panseri, Giovanni Ferrazzi, Doriana Tedesco, Claudia Maria Balzaretti
المصدر: Sustainability; Volume 12; Issue 2; Pages: 682
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: urban food production, short chain, sustainable production, micro dairies, mozzarella
جغرافية الموضوع: agris
الوصف: Background: Urban food production in the developed world has recently been facing the challenge of feeding the world’s cities adequately and on a sustainable basis, and innovative models of food production can help this transition. Nevertheless, this field of research largely focuses on primary food production—so-called urban farming—while the subsequent steps of the food chain have scarcely been investigated. In this context, this study aimed to provide a preliminary evaluation of urban food processing, taking mozzarella cheese production in the city of Milan as a case study. Methods: Five urban farmers participated in a direct survey aiming at identifying how sustainable this specific production chain can be considered. Results: Results demonstrated that the concept of urban food production is really valorized through measures able to enhance the global sustainability of the food production process only in some of the dairy micro- enterprises and that the economic dimension must be considered the variable most critically involved in hampering the global sustainability of this specific food chain. Conclusions: This research suggests the need to disseminate a global governance of urban supply chains and to support local activities, which represent a sensitive and strategic sector.
نوع الوثيقة: text
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
العلاقة: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12020682Test
DOI: 10.3390/su12020682
الإتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020682Test
حقوق: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Test/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.69D4CF6B
قاعدة البيانات: BASE