the food commons
The Food Commons nonprofit has designed a model that will connect local and regional food system enterprises in a cooperative national federation that enhances their profitability and sustainability while creating and supporting a robust system of local community financing, ownership, management and accountability.
The Food Commons model has three integral components:
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The Food Commons Trust, a non-profit, quasi-public entity to acquire and steward critical foodshed assets
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The Food Commons Financing Arm, a community-owned financial institution that provides capital and financial services to foodshed enterprises
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The Food Commons Hub, a locally-owned, cooperatively integrated business enterprise that builds and manages foodshed-based physical infrastructure and facilitates the complex logistics of aggregation and distribution at different scales among all the moving parts of the system, and provides scale economies, business services, technical assistance and training to new small food businesses.
Larry Yee and James Cochran
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via Sandy sharing this:
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who spent time with Larry Yee? Mark Boyle? (check on that)
Helena connected?
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jan 2015 tweeted by Michel:
Food is not a commons: Tiberius Brastaviceanu responds to Jose Luis Vivero Pol
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be you. 