This briefing paper from the Food Data Collaboration serves as a call to action to collaborate and invest in data infrastructure that will enable shorter, relational, regenerative food supply networks to scale.
How can we scale regenerative food systems? There are so many benefits to food from food hubs, box schemes and farmers markets – the food is tastier and healthier, farmers get more of the retail price, nature, ecology and society all benefit. But currently regenerative food systems aren’t scaling. There are many reasons for this. …
November saw the launch of two major Food Data Collaboration project pilots, trialling real-world use of data interoperability software designed to facilitate the automated sharing of product and order information between two different online sales platforms: Shopify and the Open Food Network UK. The first pilot links the Shopify outlet of Barnbarroch Organic, suppliers of …
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The first pilot of software as part of the Food Data Collaboration is live, linking Hodmedod’s UK and Norwich-based food hub Goodery.