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Local and international valorization of Mediterranean agri-food products through quality certifications. The case of Dates Sector
The main objective of this research project is to explore ways of improving the value in the dates supply chains in three Southern Mediterranean countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia called “South”) and one Northern country (France, called “North”).
The overall objective of the project is to analyze the constraints and opportunities associated with the national and international development of the Dates sector in the southern countries targeted by the project, through the implementation of quality marks. Indeed, the project aims to identify and evaluate, through an analysis of the interactions between the public and private strategies and modes of professional organizations, the effectiveness of value creation dynamics for a local Mediterranean products: dates.
To reach this goal, the project starts from the idea that the behavior of local value chains stakeholders are strategic responses to government actions. We will analyze these complex interactions, identifying their effects on the formation of prices in domestic markets and on the access to domestic and international markets.
The project will consist of three main axes:
- Market opportunities and supply chain organization for local agri-food products in domesticmarkets,
- International food Supply-chains: structure, strategies and value sharing,
- Consumer perceptions, expectations and attitudes towards mark signs of the local product studied.
ValueTeam will address the issues raised above through new methodological approaches, including value chain approach with focus on quantitative analysis, models of industrial organization and models of operational research, applied on data collected from field surveys. The mechanisms of coordination and management of professional organizations will be analyzed as well as to assess their capacity to promote the emergence of dynamic valuable supply of local products along with fair distribution of value throughout the selected supply chains in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France
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Coordinateur: Faculté Polydisciplinaire d’Errachidia (Maroc)
Responsables projet au CIHEAM Montpellier:
- Fatima El Hadad-Gauthier, elhadad@iamm.fr
- Myriam Kessari, kessari@iamm.fr
Partners
- CIHEAM Montpellier: Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (France)
- Centre de Recherche en Economie Appliquée pour le Développement (Algérie)
- Université de Bejaia – Research Unit (Modeling and Optimization of Systems) (Algérie)
- Ecole NAtionale Polytechnique – Département de Génie Industriel (Algérie)
- The research laboratory DEDSPAZA – University of Biskra (Algérie)
- L’Institut Supérieur de gestion de Tunis (Tunisie)
- INRA-ALISS (France)
Because of legislative changes, Agricultural Management Centers have to take up significant challenges in terms of development. They are willing to integrate these changes in their operation and hold discussions on new coordination modes at a regional scale, as well as to design new collaborations. Management centers are at the heart of a dynamic phase of innovation promotion in order to comply with territorial needs specific to human resources – the existing needs-, but also new needs, with constant revenues.
The ECOWASTE4FOOD project brings together seven local and regional authorities from seven countries throughout Europe to promote eco-innovations against food waste. Its ambition is to address the crucial issue of food waste, not only to stop an unacceptable situation which causes the loss of up to 30% of the agricultural production in the EU that keeps not consumed or is consumed in a wrong way regarding health concerns, but also to demonstrate that food waste could be at source of a resource efficient and environmentally friendly economy for the territories. During the four years of the project, the partners commit themselves to share their experiences in this field, in order to jointly draw up action plans to support eco-innovations via European Regional Development Funds (ERDF).
