Imperial College London
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DrCatherineMulligan

Business School

Casual - Visiting lect, guest spkr, ext. examiner
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2916c.mulligan

 
 
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Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Berti:2016:10.3390/su8070616,
author = {Berti, G and Mulligan, C},
doi = {10.3390/su8070616},
journal = {Sustainability},
title = {Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: the role of food hubs in creating sustainable regional and local food systems},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8070616},
volume = {8},
year = {2016}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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.
AU  - Berti,G
AU  - Mulligan,C
DO  - 10.3390/su8070616
PY  - 2016///
SN  - 1937-0709
TI  - Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: the role of food hubs in creating sustainable regional and local food systems
T2  - Sustainability
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su8070616
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/34536
VL  - 8
ER  -
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