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The Role of Food Hubs in Food Supply Chains
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 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.
James Matson, Jeremiah Thayer
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Excess Competition among Food Hubs [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2019 Food hubs offer a novel solution to connect small and mid-sized local farms, which individually lack the scale to profitably market their products. Because many food hubs rely on grants and philanthropy to provide services and are not necessarily profit ...
Rebecca Cleary +3 more
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Local Food, Food Democracy, and Food Hubs
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 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 ...
Allison Perrett, Charlie Jackson
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Toward a More Expansive Understanding of Food Hubs
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 A review of the uses of the term "food hub" reveals a dynamic and evolving concept. Since planners need to understand these various uses, we offer a preliminary framework for a food hub typology. We also suggest attributes and a definition that should be
Megan Horst +5 more
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2018 In a bifurcated U.S. food market, where one market is largely controlled by national brands and global corporations alongside an expanding alternate market of hyper-local direct sales, midscale producers and processors are struggling to persist.
Lesli Hoey +2 more
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Building Sustainable Communities Through Food Hubs [PDF]
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2018 In this paper, we explore the current state of the food hub by discussing innovative practices supporting efforts to build healthy, equitable, and sustainable food systems.
Charles Z. Levkoe +6 more
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Co-designing an impact evaluation tool for food hubs in the UK [PDF]
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community DevelopmentIn the UK, place-based food initiatives, herein “food hubs,” offer a range of economic, social, and/or environmental benefits via the programs, activities and support they offer.
Gemma Bridge +5 more
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Revitalising local economies : how food hubs can help
, 2019 This is a short document outlining how food hubs can help revitalise local economies. The Guidance Note is aimed at hub operators, local food entrepreneurs, third sector workers, policy makers and funders who are interested in strengthening the ...
Reynolds, C., Guzman, P.
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Ranking hubs and authorities using matrix functions [PDF]
, 2013 The notions of subgraph centrality and communicability, based on the exponential of the adjacency matrix of the underlying graph, have been effectively used in the analysis of undirected networks.
Estrada, Ernesto +2 more
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Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community DevelopmentFood systems are increasingly complex and face threats from interconnected shocks with cascading effects. There is a need for strategies that increase food system resilience, including food hubs—a type of alternative food network that aims to enhance ...
Lindsay Harris +2 more
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