The EC-Asia Research Network on Integration of Global and Local Agri-Food Supply Chains Towards Sustainable Food Security (GOLF) combines world-leading research, in cooperation with agri-food, logistics and retail stakeholders, to ensure secure sustainable, resilient and healthy food supplies for all.
Partners from eleven institutions in six countries will evaluate food supply chains and look to understand the integration of global and local systems to facilitate bio-economic solutions to enhancing sustainability and widen the benefits of local supply chains in a broader, circular economy perspective in the agri-food context.
Members of this multi-disciplinary research group will each work on areas they have experience in and which will complement each other.
Overall objectives of this research:
- Establish an international consortium of researchers to form a multidisciplinary research network with expertise in food supply chains, agri-food economics, risk management, consumer and marketing in food systems, bio-economics and bio-science, logistics and transportation, and operations research.
- Develop collaborative strategies in the context of
- Integrated multi-level (geographically global and local);
- Multi-dimension (economic, environmental, resilient) measurement of agri-food supply systems. - Develop an innovative methodology for assessing, designing and planning place based sustainable food supply chains.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 777742.
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