Abstract
This chapter summarizes the concepts underlying the sustainability of food products that have a Food Quality Scheme designation. It provides the basis for understanding which factors influence the sustainability of Food Quality Schemes in their economic, social and environmental dimensions: the quality and its perception by the consumer; the value chain and its ability to deliver value added to producers; the territory in its ability to characterize, qualify and manage food production; and the role of governance actions. The chapter thus presents an innovative conceptual framework which is useful for assessing sustainability, which embeds the value chain into the territorial dimension under a new endogenous development model.
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Notes
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The concept of Industrial District was developed in Italy by Becattini (1989) although it is quite close to the concept of cluster.
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This can be considered as an ideal model of the process of production and reproduction of typical products in a logic of regional development, boosting the economic development of the entire system and region.
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Note, however, that some environmental or social impacts may become too diluted over time (e.g. knowledge transmission) or space (e.g. carbon footprint) to be effectively internalized in LAFSs.
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Arfini, F. et al. (2019). Conceptual Framework. In: Arfini, F., Bellassen, V. (eds) Sustainability of European Food Quality Schemes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27508-2_1
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