📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/09/2023
End Date: 29/02/2028
Total Eligible Budget: 2,073,206 €
EU Contribution: 1,243,924 €
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
CROPS4LIFE aims to reduce the environmental/climate footprint of the agrifood system in Vitoria-Gasteiz by steering the local food choice through a data-intensive, digital and adaptive governance structure. A pilot initiative will be launched setting the foundations for a short-circuit based territorialized agrifood system, entailing highly productive regenerative agroecological farms, generational change incorporating new agricultural agents, trading of local products, and analysis and improvement of the regulatory framework. The project sets its grounds on different fields of knowledge: -Farming: identify and adapt to the local climate highly profitable, agroecological and regenerative productive systems. -Social: propose the necessary legal framework to enable a capacity building structure that fills the current gap between farming schools and entrepreneurship. The so called test spaces offer a mentored learning experience in a given production model, a necessary step to offer the full itinerary for any new entrant attracted to the sector. -Market: create a digital km0 food aggregator to commercialize food items with an amplified traceability, incorporating the footprint on several environmental variables of the entire production and supply chain. This information will be available to the consumers through a simplified attribute system, triggering a desired shift in the food choice, ultimately leading to an increase in the commercialization of locally produced products. -Institutional: develop a digital platform for adaptive governance to monitor the reduction of the carbon footprint applicable to the regenerative agriculture practices implemented.
