A State of Play of their Socio-Economic Characteristics.

The present study aimsat describing the state-of-play of short food supply chains (SFSC) in the EU understood as being the chains in which foods involved are identified by, andtraceable to a farmer and for which the number of intermediaries between farmer and consumer should be minimal or ideally nil.

Contents

1 Executive summary

2 Introduction: background, aims, objectives and approach

3 Literature and Evidence Review

4 Characteristics of Short Food Supply Chains in the EU

5 Case studies of Short Food Supply Chains

6 Overall conclusions

Short food supply chains and local food systems in the EU.pdf 

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