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Enhancing Agro-food Security through Sustainable Practices and Collaborative Innovation

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The PACMAn project focuses on improving the agro-food sector within the Mediterranean region. By leveraging data collection, analysis, and stakeholder engagement, we aim to tackle challenges including climate change, population growth, and supply chain complexities. Our efforts emphasize innovation and sustainability in agriculture, involving partnerships with development agencies, universities, and businesses. Key outcomes include best practice identification, a centralized online database, and pilot actions aimed at enhancing competitiveness and cooperation among agro-food enterprises.

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Enhancing Agro-food Security through Sustainable Practices and Collaborative Innovation

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  1. PACMAn, Why ? • Project Actions • Analysis • Data collection • Tools • Meetings/ Relations • Information • Promotion NETWORKING • Complex supply chain/ integration • Climate change/ Environmental impact • Population growth/ consumption • Price tension • Safety and quality • Reconversion of agriculture • … • Challenges for the Agro-food Objectives INNOVATION INTERNATION. SUSTAINABILITY

  2. Partnership • Partners’ organizations: • Development agencies • Provinces • Chambers of Commerce • Universities • Innovation centers • Italy • Ervet - Emilia-Romagna economic valorization of territory • Province of Modena • Province of Parma • France • CRITT Agro-alimentaire PACA • Spain • Instituto de Fomento de la Region de Murcia • IVACE - InstitutoValenciano de CompetitividadEmpresarial • Portugal • ADRAL - Agência de Desenvolvimento Regional do Alentejo • Ciprus • Cyprus University of Technology • Greece • DiktyoPraxi Innovation Relay Centre Help-Forward • Kilkis Chamber of Commerce and Industry -

  3. System and agro-food chain GENERAL CRITICALITIES (analysis, focus group, surveys and interviews) Analysis of segments + interviews to enterprises + best practices Pilot Action: Model of governance in tomato sector Database online + E-Guide Mapping of the chain Output/ RESULTS Lack of coordination among economic stakeholders and in the operative context

  4. Agro-food chain: the segments selected in PACMAn

  5. Interviews to agro-food enterprises in MED area (2) Some resultsemerged: - Experience/level of interest for cooperation activities • Requirement/request of services on support of cooperation Networking

  6. Interviews to agro-food enterprises in the MED area (1) • Some results emerged: • Key factors of competiveness • Incidence of exportations and importations • Correlations between strength and internationalization level Internationalization SECTORS: SELECTION PACMAN PROJECT NUMBER OF INTERVIEWS: 600 RESULTS: - 10 LOCAL REPORTS - 1 GLOBAL REPORT YEAR: 2012 Companies Interviews

  7. Interviews to agro-food enterprises in MED area (3) • Some results emerged: • Investments in innovation (turnover, activities area) • Collaboration with other enterprises/organizations for innovative joined projects (state of the art and potentialities) • Chart: areas of innovation Innovation

  8. NETWORKING TOOLS: DATABASE 47 OTHER ORGANIZA-TIONS • 47 OTHER ORGANIZATIONS: • No profit • ProducersAssociations • Cooperatives • Consortium/ Districts Chart: Distribution of organizations by country Link: http://agrofood.gnomon.com.gr 37 RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL BODIES 395 TOTAL ORGANIZATIONS 12 ASSOCIATIONS 5 PUBLIC ISTITUTIONS OF WHICH: 293 ENTERPRISES PACMAn ONLINE DATABASE

  9. REPORT BEST PRACTICES IN AGRO-FOOD SECTOR “ Parmigiano-reggiano: prices monitoring, partnership models, promotion” (Province of Modena – Italy) a) “Platform audit b) “Database enterprises c) Animation cluster” (CRITT - France). “The Murcia Food Brokerage Event” (MURCIA – Spain) “Interprofes-sional Organizations (IO) tomato” (Province of Parma – Italy) “Promotion of areas of wine production” (KILKIS - Greece) “Introduction of R&Dculture into enterprises: cases” (CUT- Ciprus) “DOSSIER CONAI 2010 Prevention ECO-Efficient” (ERVET SPA – Italy) “Agreement for quality in Crete” (Forth – Greece) “Quality product: grapes from Vinalopó” (IMPIVA – Spain). Meat produced by specific parameters” (ADRAL – Portugal) BEST PRACTICES

  10. INNOVATION Innovative technologies, innovation of product and process IDENTIFICATION GENERAL CRITICALITIES (analysis, focus group, surveys e interviews) • Limited competences and innovation abilities • Collaboration among academic world, industry and policy maker Output on Sustainability Database online (laboratories, research centers, universities, transfer of technologies) Output/ results of PACMAn project linked to the issue Identification best practices + Interviews Pilot Action: Catalogue of innovative technologies Objective: To strengthen relations among research, institutions and enterprises

  11. SUSTAINABILITY Environmental, economic, social, ethic The sustainability concept was applied to the system and the agro-food chain. Issues related to business management induced to the implementation of some specific outputs. IDENTIFICATION GENERAL CRITICALITIES (analysis, focus group, surveys e interviews) • ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT: • Innovative products and process, • Logistic maximization, • Garbage management, quality and security of products, • Responsible marketing, • Efficiency of business processes Focus sustainability Code of Conduct for the agro-food sustainability Pilot Action: Hand e-Book on green packaging Output/ rEsulTS of PACMAnprojectlinked to the issue

  12. Code of Conduct: methodology and structure data collection approach analysis Sustainability Aspects handled 1 step 3 step 1 step 2 step • Criticalities • laws and regulations • Politics • Certification • Education • Research and Development • Case study • Bibliography • Indicators • Contacts • Environmental • Economic • Social • Ethic Thematic Areas • Productive chain • Innovation • Resources management • Trade and export • Quality and consumption Finalremarks 4 step • Recommendations

  13. Code of Conduct: communication BROCHURE SUMMARY (printed + pdf) COMPLETE REPORT (pdf) www.pacmanproject.eu/codicesostenibilita.pdf (IT) www.pacmanproject.eu/codesustainability.pdf (EN)

  14. Code of Conduct: recommendations (1) RESOURSES MANAGMENT INNOVATION AGRO-FOOD CHAIN

  15. Code of Conduct: recommendations (2) QUALITY AND CONSUMPTION COMMERCE AND EXPORTATIONS

  16. Pilot action • «Hand e-Book on foodgreen packaging in the MED area” (Ervet, IT; Critt, FR; Ivace and Info Murcia, ES) • Transnational marketing cluster based on “Authentic Mediterranean” concept (Kilkis, Crete GR; Ciprus; Alentejo, PT; Prov. of Modena, IT) • “Catalogue of innovative technologies in the Agro-food sector” (Forth e Kilkis, GR; Ciprus) • “Model of Governance of Med Agro-food Supply Chain” (Prov. of Parma, IT; Critt, FR; Info Murcia, ES). Sustainability Internation. INTERNATIONALI-ZATION Innovative approach for internationalization of Mediterranean product COMPETITIVENESS Transfer of knowledge on new system of production and governance methods SUSTAINABILITY Support on spreading of eco-sustainable packaging Innovation RESULTS Networking

  17. E-book – E-guide - Maps • E-guide for operators • support for networking activities • define guidelines to create a collaboration • supply information on sector operators, divided in thematic sections • E-Book on project cluster • describe the Project, the main results, the state of the art of agro-food system in Med area • Based on issue of innovation and sustainability • downloaded from project web site (pdf) • Promotional Maps • Mapping of interviewed companies and of organizations included in DB • focus on 3 selected segments

  18. PACMAn: external communication ONLINE PRINTED MATERIAL WEB SITE BROCHURE: CODE OF CONDUCT LEAFLET BROCHURE EVENTS 20 LOCAL EVENTS 1 FINAL CONFERENCE - NEWS/ UPDATE - DOWNOLAD OUTPUT OF PROJECT NEWSLETTER FB PROFILE MAILING LIST MORE: gadget, poster, …

  19. www.pacmanproject.eu pacman@ervet.it

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