ABSTRACT Community food hubs expand market access for small to medium-sized farmers and enhance producer viability and capacity. They also have the potential to create jobs, strengthen local and regional economies, build resilience, increase access to healthy food and support the necessary transition to sustainable agriculture. From less than a dozen existing 15 years ago, there are now more than 350 food hubs across the United States which are part of a booming local food sector worth in excess of $US12 billion annually. To support the emergence of these enterprises in Australia, an inaugural Australian community food hubs conference and speaking tour occurred in August 2016, with international speakers attending from the United States and Canada. By conducting a critical literature review, further informed from participant observation, this article analyses the opportunities and challenges for the development and expansion of a food hub sector in regional Australia.

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社区食品中心：澳大利亚区域经济和社会正义模式？

摘要社区食品中心扩大了中小型农民的市场准入并提高了生产者的生存能力。它们还具有创造就业机会，加强地方和区域经济，增强抵御能力，增加获得健康食品的机会以及支持向可持续农业的必要过渡的潜力。从15年前现有的不到12家企业发展到现在，全美已有350多家食品中枢，它们是蓬勃发展的当地食品业的一部分，每年价值超过120亿美元。为了支持这些企业在澳大利亚的兴起，于2016年8月举行了首届澳大利亚社区食品中心会议和演讲之旅，来自美国和加拿大的国际演讲者参加了会议。通过进行重要的文献综述，并从参与者的观察中进一步获悉，