Ensuring resilience in agri-food supply chains

• DOI: 10.1079/cabireviews.2025.0014
• Publication Date: 2025-02-26T13:23:51Z
• Authors: Giannis T. Tsoulfas
• Keywords: Resilience; Food supply

Abstract Agri-food supply chains (AFSCs) are critical for global food security, but they have been facing challenging disruptions from climate change, pandemics, and geopolitical events. This review analyses how sustainability practices can enhance AFSC resilience explore the trade-offs between initiatives strategies. The methodology this article involved a systematic literature search content analysis approach to investigate connections in AFSCs. of 28 papers reveals several key themes. A holistic cyclical AFSCs allows be adapted changing conditions ensures that efforts do not harm economic outcomes. Collaboration stakeholder engagement crucial leveraging resilience. Joint planning, information sharing, customer integration lead better resource management operational efficiency. Innovation, diversification, adaptability maintaining viability while pursuing They increase value end products, support local markets, grow profitability agriculture. Moreover, proposed strategies, policies, conceptual frameworks designing sustainable resilient reviewed. Focus is also drawn latest technologies help balance sustainability, resilience, by enhancing decision making. In addition, shifting product demand suppliers discussed as way reduce impacts chain revitalize economies. Finally, emphasizes importance understanding strategies develop integrated approaches.