Farming, Food Hubs, Local and Regional Food Systems, Metrics, Supply Chains
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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.
Farming, Food Systems, Policy & Advocacy
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A 2015 survey from the National Young Farmers Coalition documenting how student loan debt prevents young people from pursuing careers in agriculture.
Conservation, Farm to Institution, Farming, Food Hubs, Food Safety, Local and Regional Food Systems, Policy & Advocacy, Supply Chains
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This U.S. Department of Agriculture Report provides an overview of local and regional food systems across several dimensions.
Farm to Institution, Farming, Local and Regional Food Systems, Processes & Practices, Supply Chains
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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.
Media
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This report documents unprecedented levels of spending from front groups, trade associations, anti-GMO labeling campaigns, federal check-off programs and vast corporate marketing budgets aimed at defusing public concern about the risks of chemical-intensive industrial agriculture and undermining the reputation of organic food.
Farming, Food Systems, Local and Regional Food Systems
A Toolkit to Help Your Community Understand the Economic Impacts of Your Local Food System Initiatives, from the eXtension Local and Regional Food Systems Community of Practice
Climate Change, Forestry
The Northeast Regional Climate Hub Assessment examines climate change vulnerability and adaptation and mitigation strategies, from the USDA's Northeast Regional Climate Hub
Food Access, Food Justice, Food Security
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A 2015 report by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF), in collaboration with the Baltimore Food Policy Initiative, found that one in four of the city’s residents live in so-called food deserts with limited access to healthy foods.
Equity, Food Justice, Worker Justice, Workforce
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This 2015 report from the Food Chain Workers Alliance is the first of its kind that looks at wages and working conditions of workers across the entire food chain – a sector that employs 20 million people in the U.S., comprising one-sixth of the nation’s workforce.
Local and Regional Food Systems
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How does what we grow compare with what we eat? Can Maryland agriculture support the demand for local food? Are there foods that Maryland produces well that are also in high demand by buyers in Maryland?