Government Support to Regional Food Producers: An Assessment of England's Regional Food Strategy

Open Food Network: the Role of ICT to Support Regional Food Supply Chains in Australia

Many organizations have introduced various ICT-enabled innovations to improve economic, environmental and social performance. The Open Food Network (OFN) is an example of an ICT-enabled innovation that has the potential to enhance the sustainability of regional food supply chain by improving farmers’ access to local and regional markets and consumers’ access to fresh local produce, as well as o...

Regional food culture and development.

Food culture is most influenced by the locality of its origin, which will have been one of food acquisition and processing by various means. It is generally agreed, and is the basis of much United Nations, especially Food and Agriculture Organisation strategic development policy, that successful agriculture, horticulture and aquaculture along with fishing, underpin economically viable and healt...

Regional Overview of Food Insecurity Africa

An agent-based model of regional food supply chain disintermediation

Regional food hubs provide logistics services for small and mid-sized food producers, giving them the ability to reach larger markets and customers than they can reach on their own. However, once food hub managers have helped to establish connections between producers and new customers, they often find themselves cut out of the regional food supply chain when the farmers decide to sell their pr...

Regional food diversity and human health.

Regions are significant for the way we understand and strategize food for health and economic development. They generally represent various food cultures and opportunities for food exchange based on proximity, historical linkages and complementarities. The example of North and West Africa represents an intersection of some of the most original of human eating experiences out of Africa and the e...