SUFISA

Sustainable finance for sustainable agriculture and fisheries

Abstract

A good functioning of the European food system is key to deliver food and nutrition security for all Europeans. However, that system faces many economic, environmental and social challenges as well as opportunities following socio-economic and technological developments, that are not equally distributed throughout the EU. Future policymaking aiming at healthy and resilient systems needs to take into account this differentiation and diversity of approaches, which necessitate foresight activities that take into account both the development of important driving forces as well as the social and spatial diversity. Primary production—that is agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture—forms the foundation of the food system. Its structure and performance is influenced by various conditions shaped by both the public and the private sector. As economic agents, primary producers aim at generating a sufficient amount of income, but their financial conditions are highly dependent on public and private actors, such as government regulators (including the EU’s agricultural and fisheries policies), the financial sector, suppliers, the food industry, retailers, etc. In other words, the web of policy requirements as well as input and output market imperfections greatly shape farmers’ and fishermen’s livelihoods. Knowledge on the conditions of primary producers and the driving forces influencing these conditions exists, but in a fragmented way: not all primary producers and regions are covered, not all driving forces have been investigated, cross-linkages between them have been insufficiently analysed, future opportunities are not well integrated, etc. The purpose of SUFISA is to identify sustainable practices and policies in the agricultural, fish and food sectors that support the sustainability of primary producers in a context of multi-dimensionsal policy requirements, market uncertainties and globalisation.

Project details

Unibo Team Leader: Davide Viaggi

Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari
Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche "Paolo Fortunati"

Coordinator:
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

Other Participants:
University of Gloucestershire (United Kingdom)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna (Italy)
Universidade De Evora (Portugal)
Hochschule Fuer Nachhaltige Entwicklung Eberswalde (Germany)
Nodibinajums Baltic Studies Centre (Latvia)
Università di PISA (Italy)
UNIVERSITEIT HASSELT (UHasselt) (Belgium)
Aarhus Universitet (Denmark)
Uniwersytet Jagiellonski (Poland)
Ekonomski Fakultet, Univerzitet U Beogradu (Serbia)
Fondation Institut De Recherche Pour Le Developpement Durable Et Les Relations Internationales (France)
Agricultural University Of Athens (Greece)

Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 4.863.661,75
Project Duration in months: 48
Start Date: 01/05/2015
End Date: 30/04/2019

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Zero hunger This project contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 635577 This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 635577