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

The SMARTCHAIN project just launched a guide to the implementation of the method for improving the competitiveness of Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) through the application of innovations.This guide has been developed by CAMPDEN BRI. There is growing consumer demand...

The EU-funded project SMARTCHAIN hosted today its closing event, showcasing its main findings and recommendations to support collaborative Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs) in Europe. The 3-year long project brought together a wide range of policymakers, practitioners...

More and more people are starting to recognise the benefits of solar greenhouses. A solar greenhouse is a structure that pulls in the sunlight and the heat to keep growing conditions at a regulative temperature even when the sun is not shining. Solar greenhouses are...

EUREKA is building the EU FarmBook - a centralized, open-source e-platform for collecting and sharing the many different types of end-user material and practical knowledge produced by Horizon 2020 multi actor projects related to agricultural and rural-innovation in...

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...

In a new Trends in Food Science and Technology editorial, Hugo de Vries (the newly elected President of the European Federation of Food Science and Technology - EFFoST) reflects on the essential contribution of Food Science and Technology to create more sustainable...