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.
On Tuesday 13th September 2022, the Food Data Collaboration governance circle gathered in Bristol, ready to take the next steps in building our data interoperability commons to strengthen agroecological supply chains. Having established our collective vision and mission at our project launch meeting in London earlier this year, it was now time to start identifying …
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