Assessing Food Supply Chain Sustainability: An Integrated Approach of Entropy and TOPSIS

Abstract:

Environmental degradation has been a great concern for Chinese people. Sustainable management serves a critical avenue to solve environmental problems。The aim of this article is to propose an integrated evaluation framework through constructing a comparatively comprehensive set of indicators so as to measure food supply chain sustainability. The assessment methodology is the integration of Entropy and TOPSIS which are utilized to ascertain the weights of indicators and provide comparison and contrast amongst different food supply china. This article also provides a practical application of the methodology by comparing vegetable and chicken supply chains in China with those in Britain. Computational results show that vegetable and chicken supply chains in China is less sustainable compared with those in Britain. Scholars and practitioners in the sphere of sustainable research in China could utilize the findings of the article to take corresponding countermeasures to improve the sustainable performance of food supply chain so as to relieve the increasingly severe environmental problems.