Short Food Supply Chain (Zero FLW)

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Short Food Supply Chain (Zero FLW)

Key Objective

Achieve an economically sustainable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly local food system

Challenge Addressed

How to regionally join forces to develop and introduce systemic solutions for collecting and monitoring data, helping vegetable producers, food supply actors and consumer org. (HORECA) to significantly reduce FLW?

Type of Stakeholders

All relevant short food supply chain stakeholders including: Data providers: farmers, food processors, logistics, retail, consumers and consumer organizations) Data users and other FLW community actors: developers, policy, education, statistical office, cities, food banks ect.
Case Study Acronym:Zero FLW
Long Title of the Case Study:Short Food Supply Chain
Case Study Main Contact:

Tomaz Zadravec,
Daniel Copot

Countries involved and main place of the Case Study:Pomurje region – Slovenia
Part of the Food System addressed:Short food supply chain: Production, Logistics, Processing or manufacturing, Consumption and Waste management

Case Study Summary

The overall aim of the Case Study is to introduce a systemic approach in collecting data and monitoring the food loss and waste (FLW) along the whole value chain, which would allow interventions at critical stages of the value chain and reduce FLW on long term, through systemic innovation methodology, which will involve the collaboration of all relevant actors (Multi-Actor Approach) through a co-ordinated innovation system supported provided by DIH AGRIFOOD.

 

The system will be built on top of solutions/IT infrastructure, which will be upgraded for the purpose of the case study: 

  • Farm management e-service (Farm business modelling and Decision Support System), developed by the ITC and IAF and currently used by the national public advisory service to consult farmers. This platform will be upgraded with data harvesting/data aggregation features, providing real-time monitoring of harvest season that can save food waste at produce side, based on collection/exploitation of data from different sources (In-Situ data, Copernicus, GEOSS, weather forecast, other third party sources) and applying machine learning to monitor fields continuously, while being able to monitor crops, providing DSS system for harvesting and monitoring food loss at the farming (caused by draughts, floods, hailstorms, climate conditions, inefficient farming practices, etc.).
  • DIH AGRIFOOD consortium blockchain network will be used as a source of data collected from food supply chain actors while being upgraded with new and innovative ways of collecting data
  • Green Point product delivery/consumer management system and marketplace 🡪 A prototype of CircEco FLW marketplace will be implemented (‘’ugly food’’ market, offering of food to be wasted).

Motivation and key expected Outcome

Existing food supply systems in the region are very linear and need to become for circular and incorporate sustainable, feasible solutions for reducing FLW.
The objective of the case study is to provide a systemic and participatory approach for handling FLW waste that benefits the entire community, while encouraging circularity, and a sustainable food system.

Main Partners of the Case Study

ITC – Innovation Technology Cluster Murska Sobota / DIH AGRIFOOD

Contact: Tomaž Zadravec
email:

Contact: Daniel Copot
email:

University Maribor

Contact: Muhamed Turkanović
email:

Contact: Martina Šestak
email:

Other Stakeholders involved in the Case Study realisation, but not direct project partners
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Rep. of Slovenia

Policy support and promotion of the project activities

  • Institute of Agriculture and Forestry (IAF)

Providing link to farmers and policy support, while also serving us with different type of data from the fields.

  • City of Murska Sobota

Promoting the project and activities to citizens in the region and help us at organizing different events in the region.

Addressed
Food Value Chain

The Green Point is the biggest and most advanced Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) in the region, connecting all regional food value chain actors and stakeholders. It supplies local food to public institutions (kindergartens, schools, elderly homes, hospitals, …), the HORECA sector and citizens in the region.

The overall aim is to achieve an economically sustainable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly local food system to benefit all involved stakeholders and the wider community. The Green Point is operated as a Living Lab and registered at the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) and has established cooperation with other food supply chains in Slovenia. The Green point is deploying several state-of-the-art technologies and models, such as online marketplace for ordering local food and produce, blockchain-based traceability, data collection platform (IoT, EO, in-situ data, value chain actors), circular economy models and lately also Food Loss and Waste (FLW) model. In September, the CircEco FLW marketplace will be launched, matching demand and supply of eatable food waste with strict quality control and building a regional FLW community.

Cross collaboration
with other Projects or Initiatives

Ongoing project collaboration:

ZEROW: Zerow has set the ambitious target of playing a key role in the transition of the current food system towards halving FLW by 2030 and reaching near-zero FLW by 2050 through systemic innovation approach to effectively address the multidimensional issue of FLW (Horizon 2020).

Previous projects that are relevant to the case study:

This Case Study utilize the Green Point Living Lab, which is is the biggest and most advanced Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) in the region, connecting all regional food value chain actors and stakeholders. It supplies local food to public institutions (kindergartens, schools, elderly homes, hospitals, …), the HORECA sector and citizens in the region.

In addition the Case Study will collaborate with e ZEROW project and build upon the work of previous projects including CIRCECO, DEMETER, PLOUTOS, FARM MANAGER, ENVISION and CITIES2030. 

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