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
SmartAgriHubs Open Call (deadline: 29th September, 2021)
SmartAgriHubs offers funding to digital innovation services providers. This includes the overall lifecyle for developing, seting-up, offerring, providing, testing, validating, refining as well as enhancing services for Digital Transformation and Innovation. You can...
SMARTCHAIN Booklet “Insights & recommendations to support collaborative Short Food Supply Chains” available in 9 European languages
SMARTCHAIN is proud to present its digital booklet “Insights & recommendations to support collaborative Short Food Supply Chains” based on the main results and findings of the project. In this booklet, elaborated by EUFIC & the SMARTCHAIN consortium, farmers,...
New Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)
The provisional political agreement reached on the 25th of June 2021 by the European Parliament and Council on the new Common Agricultural Policy introduces a fairer, greener, more animal friendly and flexible CAP. Higher environmental and climate ambitions, aligned...
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
EFFoST’s “Development of sustainable food products: Novel solutions to meet changing consumer demand” webinar (24th September, 2021)
EFFoST Seminar Series: Sustainable Food Systems: Connecting Expertise in Academia and Industry This seminar series organized by the Working Group on Sustainable Food Systems and Young EFFoST aims to provide detailed insights into various facets of sustainability in...
Organic World Congress 2021: Online & on-site, Rennes, France (6th – 10th September, 2021)
On 6-10 September, some 2,500+ organic stakeholders, farmers, researchers and policymakers will address questions around resilience, societal transformation, health, and food sovereignty during the world’s largest organic gathering: Orgnaice World Congress 2021...
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.