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Symposium on American Food Resilience: Promoting a Secure Food Supply

Farming, Food Access, Food Security, Food Systems, Local and Regional Food Systems, Supply Chains, Sustainable Agriculture

Gerald Marten, Nurcan Atalan-Helicke (Editors)

In 2015, the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences published the Symposium on American Food Resilience. The 27 articles in the Symposium explore the vulnerability and resilience of food production and distribution from a variety of perspectives, providing a wealth of material that can be mined by researchers, teachers, practitioners, and policy makers for application to their own circumstances.

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Running a Food Hub: A Business Operations Guide

Food Hubs

James Matson, Jeremiah Thayer, and Jessica Shaw

This report is part of a multi-volume technical report series entitled Running a Food Hub, with this guide serving as a companion piece to other United States Department of Agriculture reports by providing in depth guidance on starting and running a food hub enterprise.

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Counting Values: Food Hub Financial Benchmarking Study

Farming, Food Hubs, Local and Regional Food Systems, Metrics, Supply Chains

Farm Credit East, Wallace Center at Winrock International, Morse Marketing Connections and Farm Credit Council,

Are food hubs able to support themselves with their operations? What management decisions make the most financial difference? This 2015 report, coordinated by the NGFN Food Hub Collaboration presents a set of financial and operational performance benchmarks to measure and analyze food hubs. By attempting to establish a basis for comparing results across food hubs, a business sector that is both new and multipurpose, this study sheds light on food hubs as business enterprises. Determining such metrics is an important step in the local and regional food sector’s evolution.

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Trend in U.S. Local and Regional Food Systems: Report to Congress

Conservation, Farm to Institution, Farming, Food Hubs, Food Safety, Local and Regional Food Systems, Policy & Advocacy, Supply Chains

Sarah A. Low, Aaron Adalja, Elizabeth Beaulieu, Nigel Key, Steve Martinez, Alex Melton, Agnes Perez, Katherine Ralston, Hayden Stewart, Shellye Suttles, and Stephen Vogel, of USDA Economic Research Service; Becca B.R. Jablonski, of Colorado State Univ

This U.S. Department of Agriculture Report provides an overview of local and regional food systems across several dimensions.

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Farm to Institution New England: Building A Network

Farm to Institution, Farming, Local and Regional Food Systems, Processes & Practices, Supply Chains

Melissa Deas, Consensus Building Institute

This report was developed to tell the story of Farm to Institution New England (FINE) and to better understand how network organizations can be an effective means for change.

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