The Open Food Network
We are a not-for-profit focused on building the tools and resources needed to create a new food system that is fair, local and transparent including:
- Open-source software to manage online farmers markets
- Free resources for farmers, producers and community food enterprises
- A global commons to help power the sector
- And much much more
It’s food, unincorporated!
The Open Food Network
We are a not-for-profit focused on building the tools and resources needed to create a new food system that is fair, local and transparent including:
- Open-source software to manage online farmers markets
- Free resources for farmers, producers and community food enterprises
- A global commons to help power the sector
- And much much more
It’s food, unincorporated!
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Our Work
Sell and buy food online
Our software platform powers alternative food systems and online farmers markets around the world.
Resources and tools
Free online tools, resources and guides for farmers, producers and community food enterprises.
A global community
We’re developing new ways of working in a global community, in a truly open and transparent way.
Get Involved
Find out how to get involved with either your local Open Food Network or our global community.
About Us
The Open Food Network is on a mission to build a new food system that is fair, local, and transparent.
“We want to power a world where fair, open food & farming networks (re)connect people and regenerate the earth.”
We think it’s possible to create a food system with social and ecological health at its core and work closely with stakeholders around the world to make it happen.
Our software platform makes it easy for anyone to set up and manage an online farmers market or store. This software platform is now used by more than 7000 producers in over 20 countries around the world.
Open Food Network also works to empower enterprises in the community food enterprise sector. Our work in this space includes research, developing resources for community food enterprises and a global software commons that makes it easy for other organisations to replicate the work that we have done.
WE ARE HIRING DEVELOPERS!
“For years I have been writing about the need for a fairer, more sustainable food distribution system. It appears that we now have it.
The online, open source, not-for-profit Open Food Network is owned and controlled by the people who grow, rear, process and eat the food. It is providing a growing Network of food and drink producers and small-scale retailers with a rich variety of routes to market that enable transparency for the shoppers and buyers along with maximum returns to the people who are producing our food.
Are supermarkets’ days numbered?”
Get involved
Are you passionate about localised food systems, community food enterprises, sustainability, regenerative agriculture, food security and food sovereignty?
If so we want to hear from you. We are always on the lookout for:
Open Source Software Contributors
Are you an IT professional with a passion for food systems and sustainability? Come join an exciting project to develop a new food system.
Interns, volunteers and advisors
We’re always looking for passionate people to help out a wide range of projects.
Latest News
Open Food Network on social economies with Urgenci
Open Food Network recently participated in Urgenci's 'The Social Economy, the Future of Europe' conference in Strasbourg. The underlying theme was to gather input from various actors for the...
How to build sustainable food systems? A manual from UN FAO and INRAE -including Open Food Network’s role!
“Enabling sustainable food systems - Innovators’ handbook” was published in October 2020 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the National Research Institute for...
Supplying goods in a decentralised world – OFN MozFest Session
In the age of Amazon and Alibaba it seems that our whole globe can have anything delivered within hours thanks to a small handful of incredibly powerful companies. Lynne and Rachel from the global...
Our Major Funders
The Open Food Network has received support from funders all around the world.
