Spark Workshop Report: Sustainable, Resilient, and Profitable Local Supply Chains
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This report was written by the Satellite Applications Catapult with support from Pipers Farm and workshop attendees.
The workshop and report were funded by the Environmental Space Living Lab with support from Pipers Farm. The workshop took place in July 2024. The report was written in August-September 2024.
On Tuesday 23 July, 31 participants representing interests in livestock produce from field to fork across Devon, Cornwall and Somerset convened for a workshop hosted by Pipers Farm in collaboration with the Environmental Space Living Lab (The full list of attendees and organisations can be found in Appendix 1). The objective was to identify common challenges and opportunities for innovation.
After an introductory session – where the group got to know each other, Pipers Farm, the Environmental Space Living Lab (ESLL), the context of the workshop and its process – participants split into four groups to identify challenges and opportunities across the supply chain (in farm production, processing and distribution) and, where possible, to group them and rate them in order of importance.
Broadly, these groups identified variations within the following themes: Monitoring, Decision Support, Transparency, Agile and Integrated (supply chains), Health and Wellbeing, Education and Data – which will be expanded upon in the following sections. Although the meeting primarily focused on livestock production within a short food supply chain, it also included discussions on crops
