Table 1.

Agri-food circular economy strategies and related indicators

CE strategyCE indicatorReferences
NarrowingEcological and integrated productionCodex Alimentarius Commission (2006); FAO (2019); Cajamar (2020); Poponi et al. (2022) 
Clean technologiesGarrod and Chadwick (1996); Frondel et al. (2008); Lacerda and Van den Bergh (2014); Nesta et al. (2014); Nicolli and Vona (2016) 
Eco-design packagingHart (1995); Shrivastava (1995); Christmann (2000); González-Torre et al. (2004); Poponi et al. (2022) 
Material circularity indicatorFrondel et al. (2008); Zailani et al. (2012); Wever and Vogtlander (2014); Wilkström et al. (2016); Ivankovic et al. (2017); Pauer et al. (2019); Rocchi et al. (2021); Pichlak and Szromek (2022); Reich et al. (2023) 
Optimization transport routesBochtis et al. (2012) 
Waste managementShrivastava (1995); Poponi et al. (2022) 
Water managementNorberg-Bohm (1999); Gustavsson et al. (2011); Cheng and Shiu (2012); Azad and Ancev (2014); Timmermans et al. (2014); De Steur et al. (2016); Kalmykova et al. (2016); Chaboud and Daviron (2017); Gravagnuolo et al. (2019); Kurańska et al. (2019); Fernandez-Mena (2020); Marino and Pariso (2020); Santagata et al. (2020); Srivastava et al. (2020); Bouwer (2000); Muga and Mihelcic (2008); Kang et al. (2016); Galdeano-Gómez et al. (2017); Piedra-Muñoz et al. (2017; 2018); Aravossis et al. (2019); Gravagnuolo et al. (2019); Ignacio et al. (2019); Ciccullo et al. (2021); Poponi et al. (2022) 
ClosingPackaging recycledStock (1992); Carter and Ellram (1998); Silva et al. (2013); Šerešová and Kočí (2020) 
Plastic recycledFranklin-Johnson et al. (2016); Linder and Williander (2017) 
SlowingTemperature controlBeirne (2007) 
RegeneratingRegenerating practicesEMF (2013; 2016); Velasco-Muñoz et al. (2021); Stathatou et al. (2023) 
Note:

Selection criteria: published papers focused on CE strategies and circular indicators in the agri-food sector

Source: Authors’ own work

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