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Background and conceptual framework

SUFISA - Sustainable Finance for Sustainable Agriculture and Fisheries


 

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Key to the delivery of food and nutrition security for all Europeans is an efficient and equitable European food system. However, this system faces many economic, environmental, social, and cultural challenges. At the same time, the opportunities available to farmers and other primary producers as a result of socio-economic and technological developments are not equally distributed throughout the European Union.

SUFISA aims to identify practices and policies that support the sustainability of primary producers in a context of complex policy requirements, market imperfections and globalization. Knowledge about market conditions and other driving forces exists, although only in a fragmented way. Relevant producer groups and regions have not yet been analysed, or framework conditions and driving forces have changed in the meantime. Moreover, little information is available on the cross-linkages between various drivers and future opportunities. Threats will need to be integrated for a more encompassing analysis.

The work of the SUFISA project is based on a close cooperation with practitioners and stakeholders of the agricultural, fishery and food industries, policy makers and representatives of governmental and non-governmental organisations. The combination of theoretical approaches and multi-actor involvement has been the precondition for the identification of practices and policies aimed at addressing market failures that hinder farmers and fishers from improving the sustainability of their activities.

Eberswalde University — represented by the unit ‘Policy and Markets in the Agri-Food-Sector’ — is leading the workpackage ‘Stakeholder involvement and dissemination’ (WP5), as well as contributing to workpackages WP1 - WP4.

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Picture: Workshop rapeseed 2 (policy scenarios), September 2018 in Friedrichsdorf (Germany), © HNEE/Susanne von Münchhausen




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

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