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Assessing Sustainability Priorities of U.S. Food Hub Managers: Results from a National Survey
Foods, 2023 Food hubs have emerged as innovative alternatives to the conventional United States food system. As aggregators of small local farms, food hubs hold the potential to transform food production, distribution, and consumption, while fostering environmental ...
Haniyeh Shariatmadary +3 more
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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
Daniel Rajasooriar, Tammara Soma
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Building Resilience in Nonprofit Food Hubs
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 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.
Jacqueline R. LeBlanc +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2021 This paper investigates the problem of sustainable rural supply and urban distribution of fresh food products in central Colombia. Paradoxically, while farmers in the countryside suffer from poverty due to the low profitability of the agricultural ...
Gonzalo Mejía +5 more
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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 Audi Luqmanul Hakim Achmad +2 more
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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)
Erin Nelson, Karen Landman
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Reflecting on the Concept of Local Agroecological Food Systems
Land, 2023 Despite the extensive literature on Local Agro-food Systems (LAFS), which involves research on local food identity and organisational proximity, the environmental sustainability of these systems has rarely been addressed.
Javier Sanz-Cañada +2 more
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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
Perdana Tomy +4 more
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Food hubs play an essential role in the COVID-19 response in Hawai‘i
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021 Community food security and food systems resilience have received much emphasis in the last two decades, at least partially in response to mounting challenges and pressures on the global food system.
Saleh Azizi Fardkhales, Noa Lincoln
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2021 This study focuses on how 10 food hubs in the U.S. Inland Northwest resourced their start-up and development before and during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Case studies include cooperative, government agency, nonprofit, and family-owned food
Darin Saul +2 more
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