You’re invited to participate in the community food enterprise sector Pulse Check!
If you’re a food hub, co-op, buying group, a farmer selling through your own sales channels, or any other type of community food enterprise, then this survey is for you! Open Food Network is undertaking this survey to better understand the current state of the community food sector, and what is needed to support the sector.
We’re hoping to repeat this survey in future years to develop an understanding of how the sector is changing and what it needs (or what support is working) over time. We will publish a public report with the findings of this research. It will help us and many others support the sector, and increase investment and philanthropic support to the sector.
The survey complements our Sustainable Table ‘Connecting the Tech’ project. To maximise this project’s impact, this survey also asks about your technology use and needs. This will help to shape our roadmap for future support and development within the sector.
This survey should take about 15 minutes.
Some terminology used and the meaning we understand:
Community food enterprise: Community Food Enterprises (CFEs) are locally-owned/-controlled food businesses or ventures founded around a desire to create positive outcomes for the communities they serve. This may be in the form of improved social or environmental outcomes, increased access to healthy, culturally appropriate food and support of local producers by providing fair farm gate prices. They can be for-profit or not-for-profit, and any size.
Food justice: An approach to food that provides consumers with locally grown nutritious, affordable and culturally appropriate foods, whilst also caring for the well-being of the producers and the land.
We will store the data from this project as per our Privacy Policy: https://bit.ly/ofn-privacy
