Keywords
sustainability
farms
Poland
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Abstract
The aim of the article is to indicate how sustainable farms participating in short food supply chains are compared to farms not participating. A database of 199 farms from Poland was collected in 2023, of which 94 participated in ‘short’ selling, and the remaining 105 did not. The study was conducted in three steps. Firstly, synthetic measures of economic, social and environmental sustainability were constructed using the CRITIC-TOPSIS method. Secondly, the significance of differences between the mean values of the sustainability components for SFSC farms and non-SFSC farms was assessed. Thirdly, on the basis of logistic regression, the influence of selected variables on the probability of farms participating in short supply chains was determined. The study shows that farms participating in SFCS are clearly more sustainable in the social dimension compared to non-SFCS farms. In the case of the economic dimension, the differences were less marked but statistically significant, while no clear differences were noted for environmental sustainability.
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