Supply Chains

Authors: USDA

This report is a summary of FMPP grant activities since 2006 and highlights select data and a few exemplary projects funded during fiscal years (FY) 2008 to 2015.

2016 New York City Food Distribution & Resiliency Study Results

Authors:  Nessa Richman

“Getting it There: The Role of New England Food Distributors in Providing Local Food to Institutions” presents in-depth findings and makes specific, data-based recommendations for food distributors – including food hubs – as well as government officials, funders and institutions.

The Winter 2015-16 Issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development - Special Topic: Labor in the Food System

Authors: 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.

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: 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.

Authors: NESAWG, the University of New Hampshire Office of Sustainability, Northeast Midwest Institute, New Hampshire Center for a Food Secure Future

Northeast Farms to Food (NEFTF), published in 2002 and updated in 2004 and 2006, provides a comprehensive look at the Northeast food and farming system from production through processing and distribution to consumption and diet. It includes over 100 charts and graphs, “farm and food facts,” explanatory text and a chapter on findings and recommendations.

2020 It Takes a Region Call for Proposals

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