The Role of Food Hubs in Food Supply Chains
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منابع مشابه
Competitiveness of Small Farms and Innovative Food Supply Chains: The Role of Food Hubs in Creating Sustainable Regional and Local Food Systems
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 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2152-0801
DOI: 10.5304/jafscd.2013.034.004