Integration of the Food Supply Chain as a Factor of Sustainable Development

Abstract

The aim adopted in the paper was to lead the scientific reasoning on sustainable development in context of economic entities and its integration in the supply chain. It is to be noticed that integration of supply chain is one of the factor for using or limiting the functional weaknesses of the market which are related to the three sustainability aspects as environmental, social and economic resources, as assumes the concept of sustainability. In the paper, it was searched for the relationship between these three sustainability aspects and limitation of functional weaknesses of the market through integration of supply chain. It was stated that different forms of integration might contribute to the maintenance and enhancement of environmental, social and economic resources.