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Building an Urban Food System Through UDC Food Hubs

open access: yes, 2018
The Landgrant College of the University of the District of Columbia embodies the university's unique mission as the only exclusively urban land-grant university in the United States. With most of the world's population now living in urban areas, this mission is relevant to cities worldwide.
Sabine O'Hara   +2 more
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A hybrid simulation modeling framework for regional food hubs

open access: yesJournal of Simulation, 2017
As demand for regionally produced food has increased, regional food hubs have helped to facilitate connections between consumers and small-scale food producers. However, food hubs often struggle to achieve the logistical and operational efficiencies that characterize conventional large-scale food distribution.
Anuj Mittal, Caroline C. Krejci
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Food Hubs: Definitions, Expectations, and Realities

Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, 2015
There is general agreement that food hubs are principally regional food aggregators/distributors well positioned to fill a number of social roles and services not traditionally provided by wholesale food companies. However, there is little agreement among stakeholders about what these roles and services should be or understanding of how they affect ...
Rich Pirog, Michael W Hamm
exaly   +2 more sources

Food hub establishment : a case study of the Southwest Washington Food Hub

2022
This Extension publication describes planning and implementation of a new food hub in Washington State from the fall of 2019 to the winter of 2021, the Southwest Washington Food Hub (SWFH). This publication provides information on the hub s formation, early development, and sales launch, which coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bramwell, Stephen, Sitaker, Marilyn
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Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
Food hubs are collaborative entities that strategically manage the assemblage, delivery, and promotion of food from a range of local food producers. They are essentially multi-actor institutions, involving horizontal collaboration between producers and ...
John J Hyland, Áine Macken-Walsh
exaly   +2 more sources

Food hub growth : a case study of the Puget Sound Food Hub Cooperative

2023
Food hubs are businesses that market, aggregate, and distribute origin-identified agricultural product for groups of regional growers and food manufacturers, and typically provide buyer convenience through single point of purchase, invoicing, and payment.
Sitaker, Marilyn, Bramwell, Stephen
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Advancing Thriving Community Food Hubs : Piloting A Social Audit of the UBC Food Hub Market

2023
The UBC Food Hub Market (FHM) is a non-profit community space that is part of the UBC Food Security Initiative (FSI) which falls under the UBC Wellbeing Strategic Framework. This space aims to provide at-cost groceries, which means that the groceries are sold to staff, students, and the overall community on campus at the exact price they were ordered ...
Du, Deborah   +3 more
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