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The food systems need to change to meet the many challenges facing humanity. The food system in the future needs to deliver good performance in a broad spectrum of impacts, such as environment, health, socioeconomics and cultural values. To do this, supply chains need to be rearranged, and efficiency needs to increase without compromising other valuable outputs. Assessing sustainability performance of possible future production systems is inherently difficult and including the broad array of impacts complicates the task even further. In this report we 1) describe an iterative fourstep process for designing hypothetical future supply chains for different “product concepts” and 2) evaluate their sustainability performance. The design process included used scenarios developed within MISTRA Food Future and the evaluation of sustainability performance was made by MultiCriteria Assessment (MCA). The results showed that the method developed was useful, facilitated close and fruitful collaboration with supply chain stakeholders, and provided new insights and better understanding of the role of industry and retail in development of the future food system. The use of MISTRA Food Future scenarios helped the process by supporting wider perspectives among all participants. The MCA approach for evaluation worked well in capturing the broad sustainability performance, though the result was too aggregated to work as a decision support for decisions on real actions, but acted rather as a clear screening of the relative importance of the different sustainability areas. However, this in turn is valuable for deciding on the next steps in supply chain design.

Nyckelord

Designing Food Supply Chains; Multi-criteria assessment; MCA

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Mistra Food Futures Report
2025, nummer: 26
Utgivare: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

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  • eISBN: 978-91-8046-590-8

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/140298