Abstract: A sustainable food system can be described as a system that ensures economic, social, and environmental sustainability to secure food and nutrition for current and future generations. The present research aimed to identify and characterize sustainable food initiatives to understand the governance framework, the motivations, the reasons for success, the typology of actors involved, and future prospects...
Nowadays, consumers look at food products not only as ways to satiate hunger, but also as means of improving their healthiness or, at least, a general feeling of healthiness. Modern consumer trends focus on choosing foods that, beyond nutritional value, also bear some kind of health-enhancing properties. Therefore, markets, industrials, academics, and consumers must all come together to build a successful marke...