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Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems

Berti, Giaime ; Mulligan, Catherine

Sustainability, 2016-07, Vol.8 (7), p.616-616 [Periódico revisado por pares]

Basel: MDPI AG

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  • Título:
    Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems
  • Autor: Berti, Giaime ; Mulligan, Catherine
  • Assuntos: Family farms ; Food ; Food supply ; Literature reviews ; Population decline ; Rural areas ; Supply chains ; Sustainability ; Value creation
  • É parte de: Sustainability, 2016-07, Vol.8 (7), p.616-616
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  • Descrição: Over the last decades, the economic, social and environmental sustainability of the conventional agri-food system has and continues to be contested within both academic and public institutions. For small farms, the unsustainability of the food system is even more serious; farms' declining share of profit and the cost-price squeeze of commodity production has increased barriers to market access with the inevitable effect of agricultural abandonment. One way forward to respond to the existing conventional agri-food systems and to create a competitive or survival strategy for small family farms is the re-construction of regional and local agri-food systems, aligning with Kramer and Porter's concept of shared value strategy. Through a critical literature review, this paper presents "regional and local food hubs" as innovative organizational arrangements capable of bridging structural holes in the agri-food markets between small producers and the consumers-individuals and families as well as big buyers. Food hubs respond to a supply chain (or supply network) organizational strategy aiming at re-territorialising the agri-food systems through the construction of what in the economic literature are defined as values-based food supply chains.
  • Editor: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Idioma: Inglês
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