DOI: 10.32725/978-80-7394-976-1.23

The sustainability of the activities of food banks in the Czech Republic with regard to the planned strategic changes of the EU agri-food sector

Oksana Dubanych, Jan Vavřina
Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Business Economics, Zemědělská 1, Brno, Czech Republic, xdubanyc3@node.mendelu.cz.
Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Business Economics, Zemědělská 1, Brno, Czech Republic, vavrina@node.mendelu.cz.

The review type article aims to identify key aspects for sustainability of activities of food banks in the Czech Republic, in connection with currently given objectives of the EU's Common Agricultural Policy for the agri-food complex in the programming period starting from 2023. In this context, there are taken into account identifiable impacts on current best practice of food banks.

Keywords: food banks, food supply chain, Common Agricultural Policy

pages: 153-156



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