WildFood

Eating the wild: Improving the value-chain of Mediterranean Wild Food Products

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Objective

Wild and semi-wild food products are closely linked to local economies, rural livelihoods, the provision of ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, traditional knowledge, territorial identity, gastronomy and other cultural values. A significant part of the local population across the Mediterranean gathers and consumes them, but their full commercial potential has yet to be exploited.

WildFood's main objective is to promote the implementation of innovative strategies to improve these products' value chains, involving different stakeholders and improving the conditions and competitiveness of smallholders, SMEs and local communities linked to these products. To achieve this, research and innovative solutions will be designed and implemented to address agrifood value chain challenges by exploring the existing organisational and business models of the selected products, namely: mushrooms, truffles, pine nuts, chestnuts, acorns and aromatic plants.

Duration

June 2020 - May 2023 

Total budget

1.308.000 € 

Prodeca budget

16.000 €

Partners

	Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC)	Catalonia (Spain)
	Università di Padova – DipartimentoTerritorio e Sistemi Agro-forestali (UNIPD)	Italy
	Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA)	Portugal
	National Research Institute of Rural Engineering, Water and Forests (INRGREF)	Tunisia
	Institut National de Recherche Forestière (INRF)	Algeria
	Cooperativa de Usuarios do Freixo do Meio, CRL (HFM)	Portugal
	Agriculture Extension and Training Agency (AVFA)	Tunisia
	NABATIA	Algeria
	Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI)	Slovenia
	Prodeca	Catalonia (Spain)