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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-driven, markets may unintentionally oversaturate due to overinvestment.We use a firm-entry model to ...
Cleary, Rebecca, Goetz, Stephan J., McFadden, Dawn Thilmany, Ge, Houtian, Cleary, Rebecca, Goetz, Stephan J., McFadden, Dawn Thilmany, Ge, Houtian   +7 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Local food hubs in deprived areas: de-stigmatising food poverty? [PDF]

Local Environment, 2019
This paper aims to explore the potential of “local food hubs” to address issues of stigma associated with the use of food banks in urban deprived areas. “Local Food Hubs” are a relocalised distribution channel, however, like other Alternative Agro-Food Networks (AAFNs), it can be an elite phenomenon for affluent areas and consumers.
Katerina Psarikidou, H Kaloudis, Christian Reynolds   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Toward a More Expansive Understanding of Food Hubs

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2011
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 considered when assessing existing sites and planning for new food hubs.
Horst, Megan, Ringstrom, Eva, Tyman, Shannon K., Ward, Michael K., Werner, Virginia, Born, Branden   +5 more
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Impact of food hubs on food security and sustainability: Food hubs perspectives from Leeds, UK [PDF]

Food Policy
In the context of rising food insecurity, food hubs such as food pantries, food banks, community agriculture supported schemes, social supermarkets, community kitchens and cafes, have proliferated both in number and in the roles they perform.
Effie Papargyropoulou
exaly   +4 more sources

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, Sabine O’Hara, Rebecca Graham, Marian Stuiver   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

"Put Your Own Mask on Before Helping Someone Else": The Capacity of Food Hubs to Build Equitable Food Access

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, Lilly Fink Shapiro, Noel Bielaczyc   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Building Sustainable Communities Through Food Hubs

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, Colleen Hammelman, Luke Craven, Gavin Dandy, Jeff Farbman, James Harrison, Phil Mount   +6 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Co-designing an impact evaluation tool for food hubs in the UK [PDF]

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
In 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, Effie Papargyropoulou, Sonja Woodcock, Emma Strachan, Joanna Rowlands, Elizabeth Boniface   +5 more
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Social entrepreneurship in agri-food systems: the case of food hubs

International Food and Agribusiness Management Review, 2023
Abstract Food hubs are nascent organizational innovations in local and regional food systems. Although the number of food hubs in the U.S. has grown over the past decade, their purpose in the food system is still debated. There is a lack of clarity in whether food hubs primarily pursue a social mission, economic value creation, or both simultaneously ...
R Brent Ross, Wynne Wright
exaly   +2 more sources

Food System Solutions to Address Food Security and Local Economic Development: The Case of Food Hubs in the Northeastern United States

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2019
Socioeconomic inequalities and natural resource exploitation reflect the limitations of how the current food system functions. Global and local conceptual categories are used to describe two alternatives that are shaping the way food is produced ...
Cesare Cascella
doaj   +2 more sources