Sustenance Food Hub Platform

随着COVID-19危机暴露出企业食品系统的脆弱性，超市供应链崩溃，而小规模生产商在需求飙升的情况下进一步扩大了本已稀缺的资源。在大规模经济衰退的背景下，要求提供实际支持以改善物流、最大限度地利用共享资产和动员关键利益相关者的呼声越来越高。结合在食品、社会企业和金融领域相关领域的深厚经验，我们认识到，当地食品不仅仅是一种商品，而是一种关系。Sustenance的提案旨在将Open Food Network等平台的重要工作进一步推进：通过作为当地食品网络的设计，交付，服务和支持合作伙伴的商业模式，我们将成为各种背景下的网络参与者，定位于解决方案主导和平台主导创新之间的重要位置。本次投标中提出的研发将专注于完善的普利茅斯食品网络及其潜在市场，调查利益相关者，共同创建和试用模型选项，并为该市及其周边地区的当地食物网提供支持工具，以便将来在其他地方提供和调整。

As the COVID-19 crisis laid bare the vulnerabilities of the corporate food system, supermarket supply chains buckled while small-scale producers stretched already scarce resources even further in the face of soaring demand. Calls for practical support to improve logistics, maximise shared assets and mobilise key stakeholders are growing against the backdrop of a massive economic recession. Combining deep experience in relevant sectors of the food, social enterprise and finance spaces, at Sustenance we recognise that local food is so much more than a commodity - it's a relationship. Sustenance's proposal is designed to take the important work of platforms such as Open Food Network a stage further: with a business model as a design, delivery, service and support partner for local food networks, we will become participants in networks in a variety of contexts, positioned in the important place between solution-led and platform-led innovations. The R&D proposed in this bid will focus on the well-established Food Plymouth network and its potential market, surveying stakeholders, co-creating and trialling model options and supporting tools for local food webs in and around the city, able to be offered out and adapted in other locations in future.