Short Food Supply Chains (SFCs) have potential to improve farm incomes, promote sustainable farming systems and contribute to local economic development. There are many different forms of SFC in Europe, but they share a common characteristic of reduced numbers of intermediaries between the farmer or food producer, and the consumer. Whilst the number of SFCs has proliferated, their collective impact is limited by a number of barriers to scaling up. This report summarises the findings of the EIP-AGRI expert focus group on Innovative Short Food Supply Chain Management. The overall aims of this temporary group of experts were to: identify the main needs or instruments required to implement SFCs which can increase farm incomes; to highlight the factors that currently hamper scaling up and to make recommendations for solutions to the problems.