Food Hub Knowledge

Documents in the NGFN database about Food Hubs

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A collection of information, resources and background on everything needed to develop or participate in a regional food hub. The guide presents a series of key ...	Regional Food Hub Resource Guide
Targeted at conference attendees, food systems professionals, policy-makers and funders, this document is intended to galvanize support for innovative food dist...	Making Good Food Work Conference Proceedings
The Land Stewardship Project has adapted a series of worksheets by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry to help farmers understand the cost...	Understanding Local Food Transportation Costs
Building Successful Food Hubs is a resource for communities, businesses, not-forprofits, and others interested in establishing food hubs.	Building Successful Food Hubs: A Business Planning Guide for Aggregating and Processing Local Food in Illinois
This study uses nationally representative data on marketing of local foods to assess the relative scale of local food marketing channels. This research document...	Direct and Intermediated Marketing of Local Foods in the United States
The Southern Wisconsin Food Hub Feasibility Study tests the hypothesis that agricultural production and economic activity in southern Wisconsin could be fuele...	Southern Wisconsin Food Hub Feasibility Study
Many local food systems advocates focus on increasing the number of farmers selling their products directly to consumers, but this type of direct marketing is...	Scaling-up Connections between Regional Ohio Specialty Crop Producers and Local Markets: Distribution as the Missing Link
This study tests the premise that a values-driven wholesale distributor of food grown in the Philadelphia region can catalyze the necessary infrastructure to bo...	The Common Market Feasibility Study
USDA Rural Business-Cooperative Service Report 58: This guide provides rural residents with information about cooperative development feasibility studies. It de...	Vital Steps - A Cooperative Feasibility Guide
Definitions and characterization of "Values-Based Value Chains".	Values-Based Food Supply Chains: Strategies for Agri-Food Enterprises-of-the-Middle
The objective of this report is to improve understanding of how local food products are being introduced or reintroduced into the broader food system and potent...	Comparing the Structure, Size, and Performance of Local and Mainstream Food Supply Chains
This report assesses the opportunities and barriers to scaling up the distribution of locally grown fruits and vegetables in the greater Los Angeles region. The...	Fresh Food Distribution Models for the Greater Los Angeles Region: Barriers and Opportunities to Facilitate and Scale Up the Distribution of Fresh Fruits and Vegetables
I. Identify more values-based value chains (VBVC’s) in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Pacific Northwest in addition to the original thirteen VBVC case stud...	Values-Based & Value-Added Value Chains in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and Pacific Northwest
By scaling up, local food systems have the potential to borrow some of the economic and logistical efficiencies of the industrial food system while retaining so...	Scaling Up: Meeting the Demand for Local Food
The purpose of this exploratory study is to provide concrete tools and inspiration for producers and others who address the challenges inherent in scaling up ag...	Innovative Strategies for Meeting New Markets
This report provides a detailed field report on the performance of 24 community food enterprises (CFEs), half inside the United States and half international. C...	Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global Marketplace
Does a local food market offer viable marketing opportunities to local farmers? In an attempt to find an answer, we ask: Is there a market demand for locally p...	The Distribution of Local Food Through Consumer Cooperatives in the Northeast
This report was developed with leadership from the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at Michigan State University, the Food Bank Council of Michigan ...	Food System Infrastructure: Michigan Good Food Work Group Report
This paper outlines a vision and implementation plan for an improved regional wholesale marketing system that addresses the major barriers and risks that limit ...	A California Network of Regional Food Hubs: A Vision Statement and Strategic Implementation
This Food Hubs report reflects the three questions we were asked to address in the research brief, namely: (i) what is the meaning of the Food Hubs ...	Food Hubs: The ‘Missing Middle’ of the Local Food Infrastructure

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