On 4 July 2023, the FAIRCHAIN project will organise a session entitled “Intermediate Food Value Chains In Practice” as part of the pre-conference workshop series leading up to the ISEKI-Food Conference 2023 that will take place in Paris at AgroParisTech. To read the workshop description and register, please refer to the dedicated page.
FAIRCHAIN’s coordinator, Geneviève Gésan-Guiziou, will deliver a keynote speech on how to encourage putting technological innovations for food producers and food SMEs into practice at the Green Food Tech Conference that will take place in Montreal from 18 to 19 May 2023.
You can now enroll in a 2.5-hour online course on Introduction to Intermediate Food Value Chains (IFVCs) based on initial research findings of the FAIRCHAIN project. The goal is to provide concrete support to food stakeholders interested in innovative food chains to optimise their performance and further development.
The course is open until 14 July 2023.
The FOOD FACTORY-4-US 2023, supported by the FAIRCHAIN project, gives students in food science the opportunity to submit a project aimed at innovating in existing short food supply chains to make them stronger and more competitive.
Projects must identify a specific challenge/problem in an existing short food supply chain and develop an exploitable solution to that challenge/problem. The aim is to improve the competitiveness of the SFSC in a way that maintains or improves resource efficiency and is climate-friendly, while also leading to the growth of the SFSC towards an intermediate food supply chain. The innovative and exploitable solution proposed may address an economic, social, organizational or technological challenge in the existing SFSC and should be potentially applicable to other SFSCs in other regions. Examples could be anywhere in the value chain including raw materials through processing, packaging, logistics and marketing.
Students taking part in the competition are also expected to take part in an online training programme and a virtual final conference between April and June 2023.
Further details about this year’s edition can be found on ISEKI-Food Association’s website. You may also read our article about the results of the 2022 edition.
Contact: foodfactory4us@iseki-food.net
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FAIRCHAIN participated in the FRUIT LOGISTICA fair, which took place in Berlin from 8 to 10 February. It is one of the biggest fairs in Europe that covers every sector of the fresh produce business and provides a complete picture of the latest innovations in the international supply chain. Our project partner, Confagricoltura, presented the Swiss case study, which deals with the valorisation of apple pomaces and apricot pits. Check out the case study flyer here.
The most recent edition of the FoodFactory-4-Us student competition, organised by ISEKI-Food Association within the FAIRCHAIN project, challenged teams of students to design projects for the modernization of a traditional food that could contribute to the development of regional food value chains. Quinoa, octopus, algae, Dadih, fermented shrimp, Porto sauce, Meitauza and “pan de muerto” were some of the local specialties upon which teams from around the world based their entries. The winning project, submitted by team “Nutrimento” from the University of Agriculture of Faisalabad (Pakistan), uses local grains and fruits to make an instant cereal high in nutritional value and low in cost to consumers. See the LinkedIn post about the winners here. The winners received a cash prize sponsored by ISEKI and will join the FAIRCHAIN Food Hack 2023, organised by another FAIRCHAIN partner, Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). To know more about the competition visit this page.