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A social enterprise approach to a diversified hub of activities around food
One of the ideas that the Food Supply and Distribution strand project aims to investigate is whether a social enterprise model can address the problems of distribution from small-scale producers to small outlets and individual customers.
There is particular interest in how these activities could serve the needs of low-income consumers for whom market failures often result in poor provision of healthy and sustainable food.
Our work is exploring a diversified model for a food hub, which involves a number of different elements (like petals on a flower), some social, some environmental and some commercial that work together to create a vibrant social enterprise which builds communities through a range of activities around food.
The papers below explore some of the "petals" that our project partners are building:
Sustain and the University of Glamorgan have also interviewed 11 small scale food hubs. Their report looks at the critical elements in the development of a food hub.
Building direct relationships between producers and consumers
One of the key aims of all the partners in the project is to purchase more supplies directly from producers. The papers below explore work around this subject:
Community food hubs conference 9th Nov 2009
The conference shared learning from the projects in the strand and also featured presentations from other organisations doing similar work.
Below you can download the presentations from some of the organisations that took part:
For more information please contact Clare Horrell at clare@sustainweb.org
