At a time of serious global economic uncertainty, the role of European farms will have to be increasingly important in terms of quality, typicality and eco-sustainability. The countries of the European Union, including Italy, will have to strengthen all those processes aimed at enhancing agri-food production in terms of quality, food safety and circularity.
All the Partners of the European Project Liverur have concrete examples in this sense as a reference.
Here is a list of products and production processes that will have to be highlighted to justify unique quality characteristics and guarantees for the consumer:
– wine supply chain
– olive oil supply chain
– milk and dairy products supply chain
– meat and related processed products supply chain
– cereal, flour and pasta supply chains
– seafood supply chains
– forest products supply chains
– honey production chain
– medicinal herbs production chains
– gastronomy supply chains
– fruit and vegetable production chains and their derivatives
Attention must be paid above all to PDO and PGI products and to organic and integrated productions.
In addition to certifying qualitative and nutritional aspects, it will be increasingly necessary to demonstrate the co-sustainability of production processes and the circularity of agri-food supply chains in terms of recovery, reuse and enhancement of all by-products and processing residues.
This will give the consumer a different interpretation in tune with the needs of energy saving, respect for the environment and hygiene and health guarantees. Most European agri-food productions are based on strict regulations linked to the different territories of origin and specific production processes that can neither be confused with others especially with those of other countries “copied” to give false commercial images.
(Written by Paolo Burini)
