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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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Berti, Giaime, Mulligan, Catherine·2016·Sustainability

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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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Authors: Berti, G., & Mulligan, C.
Affiliations: Imperial College London (GB)
Corresponding author: Berti, Giaime
ORCID: Berti, Giaime
Mulligan, Catherine
Venue: Sustainability
Publisher: MDPI AG
Published: 2016-07-01
Volume: 8
Issue: 7
Pages: 616
ISSN: 2071-1050 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.3390/su8070616
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
FWCI: 23.38
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: gold
doi.org
Licence: cc-by
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
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
Social Sciences › Development › 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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