B零售业食品配送的现状与发展趋势 翻译封面.doc

文献翻译 （2010届本科） 学 院： 食品学院 专 业： 食品科学与工程 班 级： XXX(1)班 姓 名： XXX 学 号： XXX 指导教师： XXX 2010年5月 Sustainable agri-food supply chains and system BY Maurizio Mariani In order to govern globalization, countries need to reconcile natural resource management and concern for the environment with the need to have more growth and employment. This is particularly important in the case of food supply chain management, as environment pollution and climate change do threaten agriculture productivity. The food industry is the leading manufacturing sector in Europe, in terms of turnover, value added, employment and number of companies. Its turnover was 836 billion euros in 2005 and it employed nearly four million people. Although food industry has a major impact on our lives and economy, it is largely made up of small companies. Of the food companies in Europe, over 99% are SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises). These SMEs generate almost half of the industry’s food and drink turnover and employ over 61% of the workforce. Besides strong environment challenges, the food sector must face very important changes related to demographics (ageing, migration) and also lifestyles. The increasing concentration of industries, including food production, transformation, distribution also is modifying economical activities at a local level and is responsible of people migrations towards the cities and rural areas alienation. The change of diet habits (more calories, saturated fatty acids, less fibres etcc…) is responsible of increased diet-related diseases such as diabetes, cardio-vascular diseases etc… Obesity is considered by OMS as a true epidemy all over the world, with high costs and large scale health problems. Moreover the extension of food supply chain, including fish and sea food supply chain, with more logistics, energy consumption for transport and risks for food safety. Food production chains can be organised in a variety of ways. Co