Risk Management of Agri-Food Value Chains—Exploring Research Trends from the Web of Science

Risk management has always been considered of high importance when approaching the topic of agri-food value chains. By design, the management of agricultural and food systems is challenging. This is due to the high degree of uncertainty involving the success of making profit from carrying out small-scale agricultural activities with less performance of innovative technologies compared to multinational corporations. In this field, the literature is broad—there are numerous risk management studies focused on methods designed to prevent and mitigate the negative effects of threats that could significantly affect activities carried out with the aim of adding value along the agri-food chains. The aim of this research was to explore emerging research trends concerning risk management approaches in the literature related to agri-food value chains. In this regard, a comparative bibliometric analysis was carried out based on the research papers indexed in the Web of Science before and after the year 2015. Results show a paradigm shift caused not only by the need for a sustainable approach of risk management in the case of the global agri-food value chain but results also show a paradigm shift concerning the management of creating and co-creating value along the agri-food chains.