From co-creation to intervention for the improvement of sustainability in agri-food chains. The H2020 CO-FRESH project works to improve sustainability in fruit and vegetable agri-food value chains in Europe, including high-protein products. To this end, CO-FRESH...

The second pilot case working group meeting, involving the CO-FRESH pilot case Florette Iberica has been held in Navarra on May 10th. Florette Iberica is a producer of fresh cut vegetables, including more than 60 varieties of Salads and salads’ sprouts with a...

The newest ISEKI FOOD e-news issue #41 has been released in March, including a variety of interesting news on newly launched initiatives, education and training programmes and food-related EU projects. It also features an exclusive article about the Sustainable Food...

We are happy to share two interesting scientific articles, recently published by our project partners COEXPHAL and the University of Almeria, on Reconnecting Farmers with Nature through Agroecological Transitions and on The Role of Consumer-Citizens and Connectedness...

CO-FRESH, in collaboration with the H2020 RUR-06 project FAIRCHAIN, has released the Sustainable Food System Innovation Platform (https://www.smartchain-platform.eu/). The platform is a continuation of the former SMARTCHAIN Innovation Platform, a stakeholder-focused...

The second CO-FRESH Newsletter 2021 has been published today! Besides an interesting read on the publication of a roadmap for a sustainable Food Systems Framework Law, this edition features a section about the company and CO-FRESH pilot case, Pilze-Nagy Ltd., a recap...

The 2021 General Assembly Meeting of CO-FRESH members was held between Thursday, 7th & Friday, 8th of October. The event was organized by the National Centre for Food Technology and Safety (CNTA) and the Center for Agro-Food Economics and Development (CREDA). It...

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 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,...

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...

The SMARTCHAIN project has developed the “Best practice guide for the implementation of innovative solutions in SFSCs“. This guide includes: a) The meaning and key aspects of SFSCs. b) An overall description of the SFSC context in Europe. c) The definition and types...

On 30 June 2021, the DESIRA Rural Digitalisation Forum (RDF) held a webinar to discuss the role of digitalisation in the European Commission’s long-term vision for rural areas (LTVRA), and the policy support needed to ensure that digitalization leads to the...

How does your food reach your plate? Can you trust your food? Developed by EIT Food, University of Reading, Università degli Studi di Torino & EUFIC, the FutureLearn online course 'Trust in Our Food: Understanding Food Supply Systems' is a great opportunity to...

The SMARTCHAIN project is proud to present the "Best practice guide for improved business performance in SFSCs". This is a guide for the application of reference exploitation models, improving business performance in SFSCs and helping farmers and food producers to...

The CO-FRESH leaflet is already available in 6 languages. Pretty soon it will follow some additional European languages! Below you can find the links to download the different versions: English French German Hungarian Italian Slovak

Over the last three decades organic food and farming has been growing year by year across the EU and continues doing so. Are you curious about organic data in Europe? Check out this interactive infographic from IFOAM Organics Europe. The tool displays organic...

The brand new CO-FRESH leaflet is here presenting its main objectives, its 7 pilot cases and many more. Check it out below! You can download it here  

After 3 years of intensive work, the H2020 SMARTCHAIN project held its European Multi-stakeholder workshop on the 6th of July. During this online event, the SMARTCHAIN consortium highlighted the activities, main results, findings, lessons learned and recommendations...

The European Network for Rural Development just published a report "Rural Voices". This report provides a qualitative analysis of the findings from stakeholder workshops contributing to the long-term vision for rural areas. The text records the hopes and concerns of...

Based on the data from Consentio Platform, those vegetables and fruits businesses that embrace digitalisation reduce food loss between 15 and 20%. This information has been included in a very interesting article (only in Spanish). Find more here