Home › Documentation › What is NEFKE, and why should I “register”? The Northeast Food Knowledge Ecosystem (NEFKE) is collaborative effort supported by multiple organizations seeking to make food system related information more discoverable, usable and easier to exchange in support of shared food system goals across the Northeast US and beyond. By upgrading our […]
Home › Documentation › Knowledge Ecosystem An approach to knowledge management which claims to foster the dynamic evolution of knowledge interactions between entities to improve decision-making and innovation through improved evolutionary networks of collaboration. In contrast to purely directive management efforts that attempt either to manage or direct outcomes, knowledge ecosystems espouse that knowledge strategies […]
Home › Documentation › Adaptive Problem Complex, adaptive problems are ones where a one-size-fits-all, top-down approach cannot be applied, where conditions vary unpredictably over time, circumstance or space. Unlike “technical problems” which can be well defined, whose solutions are known and where the necessary individual or organizational expertise and capacity is available to solve them, […]
Home › Documentation › Adaptive Problem Complex, adaptive problems are ones where a one-size-fits-all, top-down approach cannot be applied, where conditions vary unpredictably over time, circumstance or space. Unlike “technical problems” which can be well defined, whose solutions are known and where the necessary individual or organizational expertise and capacity is available to solve them, […]
Home › Documentation › What is “Powered by NEFKE”? The Northeast Food Knowledge Ecosystem (NEFKE) is collaborative effort supported by multiple organizations seeking to make food system related information more discoverable, usable and easier to exchange in support of shared food system goals across the Northeast US and beyond. They have agreed to share information […]
Home › Documentation › Networked Learning A process of developing and maintaining connections with people and information, and communicating in such a way so as to support one another’s learning. The central term in this definition is connections. It takes a relational stance in which learning takes place both in relation to others and in […]
Home › Documentation › NEFKE Registry Within the context of NEFKE, the term registry refers to a collaboratively maintained, multi-functional online database maintained by NESAWG. It contains information about people, projects, organizations, events, and resources directly related or relevant to food systems work in the Northeast U.S., each tagged using descriptive taxonomies. That includes food […]
Home › Documentation › Knowledge Ecosystem An approach to knowledge management which claims to foster the dynamic evolution of knowledge interactions between entities to improve decision-making and innovation through improved evolutionary networks of collaboration. In contrast to purely directive management efforts that attempt either to manage or direct outcomes, knowledge ecosystems espouse that knowledge strategies […]
Home › Documentation › Learning Community Aligning with our knowledge ecosystem goals for continuous “virtuous cycles of improvement” in regional food systems work, support for several types of inter-related and networked communities of learning is a core focus of NEFKE. These include (drawing on the work of Wengner and others): Communities of Practice: a group […]
Home › Documentation › How/where did NEFKE originate, and why? The need for NEFKE was initially identified through conversations over several years within the Research and Assessment Working Group of NESAWG. Members voiced common challenges in accessing, using and sharing data and information supporting and assessing food systems work. And because it was hard to […]
Home › Documentation › Adaptive Capacity The capacity of a system to adapt if the environment where the system exists is changing. As applied to human social systems, the adaptive capacity is determined by: the ability of institutions and networks to learn and store knowledge and experience; creative flexibility in decision making and problem solving; and […]
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Jump to navigation Organization 9109-1785 Quebec Inc Abbott’s Family Farm Abigail’s Bakery, LLC Acoreana Manufacturing, Co. Adam’s Berry Farm Adamah (Farm) Adams Farm Slaughterhouse LLC Adolf’s Meat Products Advance Pierre Foods, Inc Advance Pierre Foods, Inc. Against The Grain Gourmet Albert’s Organics-New England Alecon Enterprises Inc. ALFREDO AIELLO ITALIAN FOODS, INC. Alice Farm All Star […]
