Indicators for environmental policy integration in the food supply chain (the case of the tomato ketchup supply chain and the integrated product policy)

Following the recent developments in supply chain management and environmental policy integration, it became evident that for successfully addressing the environmental challenges a holistic approach is necessary. After identifying a lack of sufficient information on the environmental performance and the uptake of the respective policy measures from food supply chain perspective, a research has been undertaken for designing indicators on these issues. As a concrete case, a tomato ketchup chain and the Integrated Product Policy framework have been examined. This paper presents the results of the study performed. After identifying and analysing the respective policy measures, a set of environmental indicators have been proposed and a discussion on their applicability and role in policy-making is raised. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.