Ecosystem of tools for strengthening and consolidating Sustainable Food Hubs (FHS) through multi-action innovations for the channel

Sustainable Food Hubs (FHS) are groups of small agri-food companies that come together to optimize, through cooperation, the efficiency of their commercial channels and distribution routes.

In this way, they make the objective of these companies viable: direct or short-channel sales. This project will work to improve, through commercial and logistical innovations with a Territorialized Food System (SAT) approach, the capacity of 8 FHS in 7 autonomous communities. These improvements will be systematized together with other practice-based learning that has been accumulated in GIASAT since 2019. The final result of the systematization will be a digitalized ecosystem of tools to promote FHS, disseminated and transferred to the family agriculture and livestock subsector, as a subsector with the potential to move towards the marketing models proposed by SATs. SATs respond to the main challenges of our food and demographic system and FHS are the tool to make them possible. Proof of this is that by grouping in FHS, small agri-food producers can satisfy 5 of the 6 benefits for farmers of the EU Green Deal.