Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems
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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.
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Food hubs, producer cooperatives, and hybrid intermediary organizations facilitate aggregation, standardization, and market negotiation, enabling small producers to access retail and institutional buyers.
“Food hubs, producer cooperatives, and hybrid intermediary organizations facilitate aggregation, standardization, and market negotiation, enabling small producers to access retail and institutional buyers [2,27,38].”
From Who Reaches the Consumer? A Network Analysis of Market Reach Factors of Slovakia's Short Food Supply Chains (2026) · cites this paper as [38]
Re-territorialization as a strategy leverages the fundamentally political nature of agroecology and emphasizes the need for communities to self-organize, exercise agency, and effect change through policies, networking, collaboration, and innovation from the ground up.
“Re-territorialization as a strategy leverages the fundamentally political nature of agroecology and emphasizes the need for communities to self-organize, exercise agency, and effect change through policies, networking, collaboration, and innovation from the ground up [16,17,28,36].”
From Agroecological Transition: A Territorial Examination of the Simultaneity of Limited Farmer Livelihoods and Food Insecurity (2022) · cites this paper as [28]
SB farmers lack the necessary resources and expertise to go alone in mounting a real challenge to the conventional food system.
“similar to previous studies [28,31,33,65], SB farmers lack the necessary resources and expertise to go alone in mounting a real challenge to the conventional food system.”
From Agroecological Transition: A Territorial Examination of the Simultaneity of Limited Farmer Livelihoods and Food Insecurity (2022) · cites this paper as [28]
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- Authors
- Berti, G., & Mulligan, C.
- Affiliations
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Berti, Giaime
- Venue
- Sustainability
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2016-07-01
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 616
- ISSN
- 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2468830860
- Cited by
- 403
- References
- 145
- Citations by year
- 2026: 35 · 2025: 48 · 2024: 49 · 2023: 56 · 2022: 47 · 2021: 57 · 2020: 50 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 13 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 23.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Sustainability (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J000604/2, EP/K003593/1)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Organic Food and Agriculture
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agriculture and Agroindustry Studies
- Keywords
- food hubs, small farms, family farms, food supply chain, regional food systems, local food systems, agri-food system sustainability, market access, agricultural abandonment, reterritorialization, structural holes
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