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Titre : GOURMED : Governance of food supply chain to equilibrate price and profits of high quality and safe Mediterranean foods

Pays/Région : Greece ; Algeria ; Tunisia ; Italy

Date : Start date 2021-06-01// End date 2024-05-31

Identifiant : 422-GOURMED
Type de projet : Development and innovation oriented (research) project

Contexte
Agri-food is the largest processing sector in the EU and is considered one of the main drivers of the Mediterranean economy in terms of economic output and employment. SME companies account for 99.1% of the Agri-food sector, with their value chains (VCs) facing several significant challenges, both at the EU and the South Mediterrane- an level.

These challenges involve : * balancing future demand and supply sustainably * ensuring adequate stability in food supplies* mitigating the contribution of food systems to climate change & environmental impact * ensuring safe food for the consumers * increasing transparency throughout the chain to reduce unfair trading practices* increasing traceability to withdraw defective products quickly.

With greater global demand for food, and less natural capital to sustain current agriculture and yield demands, the survival of small agri-food firms in the MED region is increasingly difficult. Thus, an urgent need arises for a more sustainable and resilient food value chain for all agri-food VC stakeholders, including consumers and smallholders.

Présentation
GourMed will provide new, innovation embedding, optimised governance and operational models of agri-food supply chains ensuring/aiming at food quality, profitability, and sustainability, to enhance value creation by Mediterranean value chains (especially vs cheap imports) and to balance power and value appropriation among Mediterranean VC actors.

To achieve its aim, the project will pursue the following detailed project objectives : * Understand value creation & fair value appropriation in small-actor food value chains * Deliver a multi-actor strategy and its implementation tools to increase the competitiveness of MED agri-food chains * Implement and use real-life pilots to assess project impacts and validate outputs * Provide guidelines and criteria enabling sustainable Mediterranean agri-food chains. * Expected impact and results

Coordinateur : National Center for Research and Technology (CERTH)
Partenaires : University of the Aegean Mohamed Khider University of Biskra Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg (IFEU) University of Bologna University of Monastir

Financement principal : Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) (H2020)
Budget : 952 609 EUR

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