NDLI: Scaling-up regional fruit and vegetable distribution: potential for adaptive change in the food system

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Author	Clark, Jill K. Inwood, Shoshanah M.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	As demand for locally grown food increases there have been calls to ‘scale-up’ local food production to regionally distribute food and to sell into more mainstream grocery and retail venues where consumers are already shopping. Growing research and practice focusing on how to improve, expand and conceptualize regional distribution systems includes strategies such as value chain development using the Agriculture of the Middle (AOTM) framework. When the Ohio Food Policy Advisory Council asked how they could scale-up the distribution of Ohio fresh fruits and vegetables to Ohioans, we decided to use this practical opportunity to not only provide recommendations to this council, but to simultaneously contribute to the literature on AOTM, value-based and spatially–proximate relationships, and conceptualizations of food system hybridity. We do this while examining an entire sub-sector of the Ohio agricultural economy, namely fruit and vegetables and applying the AOTM framework beyond the farm, namely to distributors and retailers. Through interviews with Ohio retailers and a survey of all fresh fruit and vegetable distributors Ohio we: (1) Describe current distribution systems within the state; (2) Identify firms interested in scaling-up distribution, and; (3) Inform state-level policy efforts by identifying opportunities to better target any state-level policy and program efforts. We demonstrate support for the concept of AOTM applied beyond the farm, for value chain development strategies that can transmit ‘quality’ via spatially proximate supply chains, and support for considering hybrid solutions, such as piggybacking for scaling-up local food systems. This work highlights the role a statewide food policy council can have in facilitating market development and their unique position to provide public sector and institutional support to facilitate meaningful connections in the food system.
Starting Page	503
Ending Page	519
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	0889048X
Journal	Agriculture and Human Values
Volume Number	33
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728366
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-06-26
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Distribution Agriculture of the Middle Hybridity Food policy council Food hub Aggregation Ethics Agricultural Economics Veterinary Medicine History Evolutionary Biology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Agronomy and Crop Science

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