How sustainable is the global food supply model?
When I was working on my PhD I chose to study the poultry supply chain for a variety of reasons including the fact that it was one of the first global integrated food supply models. Although the model has been very successful in the past, my study looked at how sustainable this food supply model is into the future. I wrote two papers that have been published on the subject (see peer-reviewed journal publications): Manning L., and Baines R.N., Globalisation. A study of the poultry meat supply chain. British Food Journal Vol. 106 No. 10/11, 2004 pp 819-836. Emerald Group Publishing; and Manning L., Baines R.N., and Chadd S.A., Trends in the global poultry meat supply chain. British Food Journal Vol. 108 No. 5. 2006 pp. 332-342. Emerald Group Publishing. The second paper concluded in part that the poultry supply chain model had led to the “development of power bases at integrator and retailer level with a dependence on technology and administrative resource to drive such strategies as cen
