Principles for the organization of short food supply chains in the context of sustainable development

In order to develop vibrant rural areas, implementing the concept of sustainability in the CAP, attention should be paid to environmental sustainability. In the 1th – 3th decades of the 21th century the main challenge is the depletion of land and other natural resources and the increased risk of declining food and water supplies in the future. Desertification of the food market (by analogy with the definition of soil desertification) is a market transformation caused by the lack of fresh, local, high biological value products. Desertification is caused by the concentration of production, processing and marketing capital, which leads to the dominance of mass production. The loss of market diversity and viability is also due to changes in consumer behavior, especially in relation to the loss of cultural identity. The solution is measures to reduce production intensity and help restore natural resources (bioeconomy, circular economy), development of value chains. Economic phenomena agriculture and nutrition always interconnected, and there is a great lack of a proactive approach to managing them in geographical areas. The purpose of the research - to identify the principles of organizing short food supply chains (SFSC) in the context of sustainable development. The logical sequence of the research: identified and substantiated SFSC organizational elements, criteria, and sub-criteria; examples (cases) of SFSC organization good practice are selected and justified; the analysis of SFSC organizational elements, criteria and sub-criteria was performed; the principles of organization, sustainable development, organization of short food supply chains, organization of local food system are compared. Methods of scientific literature analysis, good practice analysis, comparison and parallel were used in the research. The study was done on the assumption that SFSC is the production, processing, sale and consumption of raw[...]Bioekonomikos plėtros fakultetasVytauto Didžiojo universiteta