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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
DOI 10.3390/su8070616
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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
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
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
  • 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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