Physical infrastructure like warehouses and trucks are essential to regional food economies. But they also require coordination – people and organizations who make fruitful connections between businesses and organizations in the supply chain; who pilot new ideas; who make the political and business ground fertile for success. Value Chain Coordination is the development of soft infrastructure, like relationships, networks and information sharing channels, that creates thriving and sustainable regional food economies. Below you’ll find resources and tools to help you refine your skills as a connector in your regional food system.
Featured Resources
| Title | Author | Description | Year | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Food LINC Program Overview | USDA | 2016 | Value Chain Coordination | |
| Value Chain Guidebook | Value Chain Initiative | 2005 | Collaboration, Community Economic Development, Distribution, Value Chain Coordination | |
| The Value Chain Link | The Value Chain Initiative | 2006 | Collaboration, Distribution, Value Chain Coordination | |
| Institutional Investment in Regional Food- An Overview | Elliott Smith, Kitchen Sync Strategies | Institutional Investment in Regional Food- An Overview Elliott Smith of Kitchen Sync Strategies outlines the … | 2021 | Community Economic Development, Farm To Institution, Food Systems |
| Spectrum of Insitutional Investment | Elliott Smith, Kitchen Sync Strategies | Spectrum of Insitutional Investment | 2021 | Collaboration, Community Economic Development, Farm To Institution, Food Systems |
| Key Components of Success for Institutional Investment | Elliott Smith, Kitchen Sync Strategies | Key Components of Success for Institutional Investment This article lays out the key components that … | 2021 | Collaboration, Community Economic Development, Farm To Institution, Food Systems |
| Institutional Investment in Praxis | Elliott Smith, Kitchen Sync Strategies | Institutional Investment in Praxis Learn more about examples of institutional investment including stories from a … | 2021 | Community Economic Development, Distribution, Farm To Institution, Finance |
| The Four Corners GroupGAP Group: A Case Study | Wallace Center | The Four Corners GroupGAP Group: A Case Study This report describes the history and learnings … | 2021 | Food Safety and Quality, Value Chain Coordination |
| From Food Hubs to CSAs | Wallace Center | When COVID-19 upended markets in the spring of 2020, many hubs borrowed elements of a … | 2020 | COVID Response, Distribution, Farm to Food Assistance, Food Hubs, Value Chain Coordination |
| USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program Wallace Center Research Findings and Final Report | Wallace Center | This report examines how a group of food hubs and local distributors were able to … | 2020 | COVID Response, Farm to Food Assistance, Food Access, Food Hubs, Value Chain Coordination |
| Funding VCC as Place Based Development Quicksheet | Sarah Rocker | Over the past ten years, investment in local food systems focused on rebuilding eroded physical … | 2019 | Funding and Fundraising, Value Chain Coordination |
| Evaluating VCC Convenings | Sarah Rocker | Convening groups of stakeholders is an important facet of value chain coordination work. Meetings offer … | 2019 | Monitoring and Evaluation, Value Chain Coordination |
| Roles of Value Chain Coordination Quicksheet | Sarah Rocker | This quicksheet describes value chain coordination as a set of roles that foster soft infrastructure … | 2019 | Value Chain Coordination |
| Healthy Food Systems: A Toolkit for Building Value Chains | Anthony Flaccavento | This toolkit is designed to help new and emerging healthy food system value chain efforts. … | 2009 | Value Chain Coordination |
| Value Based Food Supply Chains: Strategies for Ag of the Middle | Steve Stevenson and Rich Pirog | Definitions and characterization of “Values-Based Value Chains” | 2013 | Value Chain Coordination |
| Food Value Chains: Creating Shared Value to Enhance Marketing Success. | USDA AMS, Wallace Center | This document is designed to provide guidance on how food value chains are initiated and … | 2014 | Value Chain Coordination |
| Moving Food Along the Value Chain | USDA Agricultural Marketing Service | This report examines the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of eight diverse food value chains to … | 2012 | Distribution, Food Hubs, Value Chain Coordination |
| Healthy Food and Small Stores | The Food Trust | Healthy Food and Small Stores A report on innovations to improve access to nutritious, affordable … | 2015 | Community Economic Development, Community Engagement, Food Access, Supply Chain Logistics |
| Harvesting Opportunity – The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities | Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | Harvesting Opportunity - The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities A collaboration … | 2017 | Community Economic Development, Policy, Value Chain Coordination |
| Value Chain Strategies for Source-Identified Minimally Processed Produce for the School Market | Washington State Department of Agriculture | Value Chain Strategies for Source-Identified Minimally Processed Produce for the School Market WSDA analyzed minimally … | 2018 | Distribution, Enterprise Development, Farm To Institution, Processing, Supply Chain Logistics, Value Chain Coordination, Wholesale |