The EU-funded FAIRCHAIN project addresses the growing need for a significant transformation of current food systems by developing competitive intermediate food chain alternatives adapted to small and mid-sized actors.
FAIRCHAIN specifically aims to:
• Foster the emergence of innovative intermediate food value chains that support the scaling-up of small and mid-sized actors facing unsustainable conventional dominant agri-food system.
This requires to specific technological, organisational and social innovations as well as regulatory and policy adaptations to widely deliver food in a fair and sustainable way. • Inspire and encourage larger actors to down-scale conventional food value chains and better address the growing need of consumers to consume local high quality and safe products. The emergence of intermediate food value chains should put pressure on dominant actors, forcing them to align with best practices in terms of offering opportunities to local suppliers and ensuring an equitable distribution of costs and benefits.
FAIRCHAIN seeks to enable small and mid-size farmers and food producers to scale up and expand production and nutritious food through the promotion and development of intermediate value chains.
The expected outputs of the projects consist in the implementation of practical innovative solutions to facilitate the establishment of solid and competitive value chains, from shorter and longer to the advantages of the intermediate ones.