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What We Are Reading and Other Informative Research

Community Food Enterprises:

Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives Manual (PDF)

Community Food Enterprise: Local Success in a Global Marketplace (PDF)

Innovative Strategies for Meeting New Markets (PDF)

Scaling Up: Meeting the Demand for Local Food (PDF)

Food Hubs:

Food Hubs: Solving Local Small-Farm Aggregators Scale Up With Larger Buyers (PDF)

A Practitioner’s Guide to Resources and Publications on Food Hubs and Valuebased Food Chains (PDF)

Arcadia Mobile Market Case Study (PDF)

Common Market Smart, Sustainable Sustenance (PDF)

Complexity and Food Hubs Five Case Studies from Northern Ontario (PDF)

Hard Lessons Learned in a Grassfed Beef Marketing Cooperative (PDF)

Hudson Valley Food Hubs Initiative (PDF)

Food Hubs and Values Based Aggregation and Distribution (PDF)

Toward a More Expansive Understanding of Food Hubs

Increasing Farm Income and Local Food Access: A Case Study of a Collaborative Aggregation, Marketing, and Distribution Strategy That Links Farmers to Markets

The Food Commons 2.0 (PDF)

A California Network of Regional Food Hubs (PDF)

Food Hubs: The ‘Missing Middle’ of the Local Food Infrastructure? (PDF)

GSE Food Hub Feasibility Study: South East Food Group Partnership (PDF)

An Investigation into the Workings of Small Scale Food Hubs (PDF)

Food Value Chains:

Branding Study for Appalachian Food Economies (PDF)

Increasing Farmers Success in Local Food Markets in the Deep South (PDF)

Local Food Plus: the connective tissue in local supply chain development (PDF)

Food Value Chain Development in Central New York: CNY Bounty

Values-based food supply chains: Executive summary (PDF)

Innovative Models: Small Grower and Retailer Collaborations (PDF)

Sysco’s Journey from Supply Chain to Value Chain: 2008-2009 Final Report (PDF)

Values-Based Food Supply Chains: Strategies for Agri-Food Enterprises-of-the-Middle, Definitions and Distinctions (PDF)

Moving Local Food through Conventional Food System Infrastructure: Value Chain Framework Comparisons and Insights (PDF)

Healthy Food Systems: A Toolkit for Building Value Chains (PDF)

Value in the Values: Pasture-raised Livestock Products Offer Opportunities for Reconnecting Producers and Consumers (PDF)

Local and Regional Food Distribution:

Creating Change in the Food System (PDF)

FINE Distribution Research Report June 2012 (PDF)

Local Food Intermediaries (PDF)

Scaling Up Vermont’s Local Food Production, Distribution, and Marketing (PDF)

The DOD Fresh Program (PDF)

Satiating the Demand: Planning for Alternative Models of Regional Food Distribution

Maximizing Freight Movements in Local Food Markets (PDF)

Building Regional Produce Supply Chains Helping Farms Access & Sell to Multiple Channels Helping Large?Volume Buyers Access Regional Foods (PDF)

Scaling-up Connections between Regional Ohio Specialty Crop Producers and Local Markets: Distribution as the Missing Link (PDF)

The Distribution of Local Food through Consumer Cooperatives in the Northeast (PDF)

Fresh Food Distribution Models for the Greater Los Angeles Region (PDF)

Comparing the Structure, Size, and Performance of Local and Mainstream Food Supply Chains (PDF)

Related Research:

Rural Wealth Creation (PDF)

Securing the Longterm Viability of Local Meat and Poultry Processing (PDF)

Slaughter and Processing Options and Issues for Locally Sources Meat(PDF)

Updating the ERS Farm Typology (PDF)

West Virginia Food System (PDF)

Values-Based Supply Chain Annotated Bibliography (PDF)

The Role of Local Food Systems in U.S. Farm Policy (PDF)

Direct and Intermediated Marketing of Local Foods in the United States (PDF)

Annotated Bibliography of Food Hub Related Research (PDF)

Making Good Food Work Conference Proceedings Report (PDF)

Additional Information


		Food and Nutrition Service's Farm to School Program


		Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food


		USDA Blog


		Rural Development


		Agricultural Marketing Service's Marketing Services Division

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Last Modified Date: 03/06/2014