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Scenarios for handling the impact of COVID-19 based on food supply network through regional food hubs under uncertainty [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 This paper discusses an optimization model for handling the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic based on food supply network through regional food hubs (RFHs) under uncertainty. To this end, uncertainty is assumed in the demand and production data.
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Food access, mobility, and transportation: a survey and key informant interviews of users of non-profit food hubs in the City of Vancouver before and during the COVID-19 crisis. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background In the City of Vancouver, Canada, non-profit food hubs such as food banks, neighbourhood houses, community centres, and soup kitchens serve communities that face food insecurity. Food that is available yet inaccessible cannot ensure urban food
Rajasooriar D, Soma T.
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Food hubs: The logistics of local [PDF]
California Agriculture, 2017 Connecting small farms with big buyers — like UC campuses.
J Downing
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2020 Food hubs create a range of economic, social, and environmental impacts through a wide variety of activities and programs. Evaluation of these impacts is important; however, many hubs lack the capacity (including time, resources, knowledge, and expertise) to do effective, ongoing evaluation work.
Erin Nelson, Karen Landman
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Local Food, Food Democracy, and Food Hubs
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2015 In western North Carolina, where we and others have been working to build local food systems for the last 15 years, food hubs are part of an expanding network of local food distribution infrastructure intended to help the region's smaller local farms access larger, more mainstream market outlets.
Allison Perrett, Charlie Jackson
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Are Food Hubs Sustainable? An Analysis of Social and Environmental Objectives of U.S. Food Hubs
Sustainability, 2023 The United States food system is highly centralized with only three of the fifty states producing more than 75 percent of U.S. fruits and vegetables. The high reliance on long-distance transportation and cold chains undermines the sustainability of the food system and adds to its vulnerability.
O'Hara Sabine
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Building Resilience in Nonprofit Food Hubs [PDF]
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2014 Food hubs serve as intermediaries between market actors in the aggregation and distribution of local food. Scholars have identified four common food hub models: retail-driven, nonprofit-driven, producer-driven, and consumer-driven. The nonprofit sector has played a prominent role in emerging alternative food networks such as food hubs.
Jacqueline R. LeBlanc +3 more
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Food Hub or Not Yet? Exploring the Food Hub Milieu in Czechia
European CountrysideAbstract In global research, food hubs are evaluated as a suitable tool for the development of alternative food networks and the transformation of the agri-food system towards sustainability. However, in Europe, research conclusions in recent years point to a lack of knowledge about operating food hubs. Expanding information about how
Zdeňka Smutná, Vladan Hruška
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The Role of Food Hubs in Food Supply Chains
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2013 The dramatic rise of the "local foods" market and the need for sustainable local food value chains has correspondingly led to innovative solutions designed to meet this burgeoning demand. Food hubs are just one of the local entities increasing in number across the U.S.
James Matson, Jeremiah Thayer
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Improving the capacity of local food network through local food hubs’ development
Open Agriculture, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic and humanitarian challenges such as war and conflict, climate changes, and economic crises bring unexpected humanitarian challenges, such as food insecurity. Especially for developing countries, this is a double crisis, food poverty
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