Green Transition in the Food Supply Chain. The Meat Sector

The objective of the paper is to provide a representation of future scenarios related to the meat food sector in order to contextualize possible reform interventions for the supply chain in Italy and Europe. In this regard, the work unfolds using the three meanings related to food security/safety. The first is related to the perspective of food in sufficient quantity for every human being; the second meaning relates to safe and quality food; the third considers food according to individual preferences, necessarily leading toward the trade-off between consumption choices, external effects and policy interventions. The transition dynamics triggered in such a complex supply chain as that of the meat sector and the right mix of policy interventions to contain the negative effects of changes are the subject of the final part of the paper, with concluding considerations and assessments.