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Business Model: Blog Sole of Discretion
In this series of blogs, Lynne Davis, CEO of the Open Food Network, describes the business models of some of the food hubs and producers in their community. Here, in the third...
Interested in a career in ethical marketing? We are hiring!
We are currently looking for two Junior Marketing Team Members who are looking for work and aged 16-24 to join the Open Food Network UK team as part of the government Kickstart...
Business Model Blog: Bowhouse Link
In this series of blogs, Lynne Davis, CEO of the Open Food Network, describes the business models of some of the food hubs and producers in their community. Here, in the second...
Business Model Blog: Tamar Valley Food Hub
In this series of blogs, Lynne Davis, CEO of the Open Food Network, describes the business models of some of the food hubs and producers in their community. Here, in the first...
What does it look like to have a right to food?
In this blog, Cobi Akinrele suggests that it is the imagining of poverty as something which affects ‘others’, that has contributed to much of the inertia to food justice in...
OFN Platform updates
Development Explained! The Open Food Network is a platform cooperative - a software platform running with cooperative principles. Our goal has always been that the community of...
Technical infrastructure to enable an agroecological transition
Online food retail has exploded in response to COVID-19. This shift to online represents a huge opportunity to transform sales and logistics so that agroecological farming can...
Building food equality means investing in communities
In our Building Food Equality project, OFN UK are working to demonstrate the important role that community food enterprises play in addressing systemic inequality in our food...
A video showcase of how community food enterprises work
There are many wonderful and different approaches to creating and running a community food enterprise. In this blog, we explore some examples from a webinar in which we invited...