Working together to create sustainable and competitive European value chains for fruit and vegetables, including high protein yields
CO-FRESH
Starting from current best practices and key success factors of innovative value chains, and the state of the art in technological and non-technological approaches, the main objective of CO-FRESH is to (re)design and pilot innovative systemic approaches to agri-food value chains to scale up this innovation at the European level. These innovative approaches will improve the economic, social and environmental performance/efficiency of these value chains, through smart integration of technological, social, organisational, managerial and institutional innovations; all of which serve to make them more sustainable.
Project Partners
Countries
Pilot Cases
Agri-food value chains
NEWS
Beyond the Byline: EU farmers call for dialogue on sustainable food production
EU farmers call for dialogue on sustainable food production In the recent EURACTIV podcast "Beyond the Byline," Peeter Meedendorp, President of CEJA Young Farmers and Karl Bauer, Chairman of Copa Cogeca’s Working Party on Rural Development call for a dialogue with EU...
FARM, FOOD, FOLK! Reshaping EU Policies on Agri-food Systems
CNTA’s Inés Echeverria and Edelbis López Dávila from the University of Ghent attended The Policy Game Seminar “FARM, FOOD, FOLK! Reshaping EU Policies on Agri-food Systems” at the Confagricoltura offices in Rome. Together with Eduardo Cotillas (FIAB R&I Director),...
Round-table discussion about the mushroom campaign in the framework of CO-FRESH and mushroom theme corner at the short food supply chain exhibiton in Hungary
Felelős Gasztrohős, the Hungarian member of the CO-FRESH project, with the cooperation and support of Pilze-Nagy Kft., carried out its campaign “On the tablecloth: the mushroom” in October 2022, the aim of which is to increase the consumption of mushrooms. as widely...
PROJECT
The CO-FRESH project aims to provide techniques, tools and insights on how to make agri-food value chains more environmentally sustainable, socio-economically balanced and economically competitive.
26 Partners from 10 countries are participating in the project. Included are 7 pilot cases with 7 different agri-food value chains.
EVENTS
37th EFFoST International Conference
The 37th EFFoST International Conference will be held between Novermber 6-8, hosted by the University of Valencia and the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA-CSIC) in the heart of Valencia. The conference main programme will revolve around Sustainable...
7th ISEKI-Food Conference 2023
The ISEKI-Food Association is organizing the 7th ISEKI-Food Conference between July 5-7, 2023 at AgroParisTech in Paris, France. Future problems in food science and technology education, research on food production, processing, quality and safety, packaging, and...
PARTNERS
The consortium brings together key actors from agri-food value chains from 10 different countries:
- Agri-food companies and actors’ associations (farmers, food producers, cooperatives, consumers);
- Experts in technological (including digital) solutions and non-technological (including social, organizational and institutional) solutions;
- Experts in environmental, social, economic and sustainability issues, and in consumer’s acceptance.