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Changes in the supply chain outcomes of food regionalization, 2007–2017: Broccoli in the eastern United States

Local and regional food supply chains are gaining increasing support from public and private sectors for their contributions to economic development and promoting sustainability. However, the impacts of regionalization are not well understood. We employ a spatial-temporal model of production and tra...

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Autores principales: Dai, Bingyan, Gómez, Miguel I., Atallah, Shady S., Björkman, Thomas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37384712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287691
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author Dai, Bingyan
Gómez, Miguel I.
Atallah, Shady S.
Björkman, Thomas
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description Local and regional food supply chains are gaining increasing support from public and private sectors for their contributions to economic development and promoting sustainability. However, the impacts of regionalization are not well understood. We employ a spatial-temporal model of production and transportation to evaluate the supply chain outcomes of a decade-long process of food regionalization for fresh broccoli in the eastern United States (US). Our results indicate that eastern broccoli supply chains displaced products sourced from the western US and met over 15% of the annual demand in eastern markets in 2017. We find that total broccoli supply chain costs and food miles increased in the period 2007–2017. Nevertheless, eastern-grown broccoli has contributed to reducing regional food miles in the eastern region (from 365 miles in 2007 to 255 miles in 2017) and experienced only modest increases in supply chains costs (a 3.4% increase, compared to a 16.5% increase for broccoli shipped from western US) during the same period. Our results provide valuable information for policymakers and the fresh produce industry interested in promoting regional food supply chains.
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spelling pubmed-103099832023-06-30 Changes in the supply chain outcomes of food regionalization, 2007–2017: Broccoli in the eastern United States Dai, Bingyan Gómez, Miguel I. Atallah, Shady S. Björkman, Thomas PLoS One Research Article Local and regional food supply chains are gaining increasing support from public and private sectors for their contributions to economic development and promoting sustainability. However, the impacts of regionalization are not well understood. We employ a spatial-temporal model of production and transportation to evaluate the supply chain outcomes of a decade-long process of food regionalization for fresh broccoli in the eastern United States (US). Our results indicate that eastern broccoli supply chains displaced products sourced from the western US and met over 15% of the annual demand in eastern markets in 2017. We find that total broccoli supply chain costs and food miles increased in the period 2007–2017. Nevertheless, eastern-grown broccoli has contributed to reducing regional food miles in the eastern region (from 365 miles in 2007 to 255 miles in 2017) and experienced only modest increases in supply chains costs (a 3.4% increase, compared to a 16.5% increase for broccoli shipped from western US) during the same period. Our results provide valuable information for policymakers and the fresh produce industry interested in promoting regional food supply chains. Public Library of Science 2023-06-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10309983/ /pubmed/37384712 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287691 Text en © 2023 Dai et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10309983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37384712
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287691
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