Food Hubs

2016 New York City Food Distribution & Resiliency Study Results

Authors: Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems

The 2015 National Food Hub Survey and its predecessor, the 2013 National Food Hub Survey, represent a broad effort to aggregate national level data on the characteristics and impact of food hubs

Authors: James Matson, Jeremiah Thayer, and Jessica Shaw

Volume III of a USDA report series for food hubs, focusing on financial viability.

Authors: 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.

Authors: 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.

Authors: 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.

Authors: Todd M. Schmit, Becca B.R. Jablonski, and David Kay

This practitioner’s guide walks you through the steps of measuring the local economic impact of expanding food hub activities, either from the establishment of a new hub or the expansion of an existing hub.

Authors: Jim Barham and Fidel Delgado

This report provides an on-the-ground example of how food hubs manage distribution infrastructure.

2020 It Takes a Region Call for Proposals

• Food Hubs, Local and Regional Food Systems, Supply Chains

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Notes from the Distribution and Food Hubs Work Group Session at the 2014 NESAWG Conference.