| Total Budget | € 7.355.092,50 |
| Start date | 01 June 2022 |
| End date | 31 May 2026 |
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Funding programme:
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Horizon Europe – Grant Agreement ID: 101060481
HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01-09 – Towards an EU approach to assess and
internalise positive and negative externalities of food for incentivising sustainable choices
Partners:
- Stichting Wageningen Research (WR) REC NL
- AKI Agrarkozgazdasagi Intezet Nonprofit Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag (AKI) REC HU
- Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea (APRE) REC IT
- Copa Cogeca (COPA) OTH BE
- Danone Research SAS (DAN) PRC FR
- Ecozept France SAS (ECO) PRC FR
- European Centre of Agricultural, Regional and Environmental Policy Research (EUR) REC DE
- Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’environnement(INRAE) REC FR
- GLOBAZ, S.A. (LOBA) PRC PT
- Aarhus Universitet (MAPP) REC DK
- Stichting MVO Nederland (MVO) PRC NL
- PEDAL Consulting, s.r.o. (PEDAL) PRC SK
- Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) REC NL
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) REC SE
- Soil & More Impacts (SMI) REC DE
- University of Almeria (UAL) REC ES
- Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (THN) REC DE
- Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna (UNIBO) REC IT
- University of Bonn (UBO) REC DE
- Université Catholique de Louvain La Neuve (UCLouvain) REC BE
- University of Oxford (UOX) REC UK
- Universitatea de Stiinte Agricole si Medicina Veterinara Cluj-Napoca, Romania (USAMV) REC RO
- Zuidelijke Land en Tuinbouw Organisatie (ZLTO) PRC NL
- Organic Processing and Trade Association Europe (OPTA) (associated partner) PRC DE
Type: REC: Research Organisations Public Bodies; PRC: Private for Profit entities: OTH: Other
About the project
Food pricing currently does not reflect increasingly important factors related to the health and environmental ‘costs’ of foods. As the world sets sustainability goals across all sectors, including food, internalising these ‘externalities’ will lead to a readjustment of food prices, reflecting their true market value. The EU-funded FOODCoST project will address this with approaches and databases supporting the calculation of the value of positive and negative externalities including climate, biodiversity, and environmental and health factors on the basis of economic costs principles. A toolbox will aid in assessing the sustainability impact of internalisation policies and business strategies across value chains, countries, and regions to support the transition to a more sustainable food system.
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060481
More information
FOODCoST aims to support the transition towards sustainable food systems by proposing a harmonising methodology to calculate externalities in climate, biodiversity, environmental, social and health along the food value chain.
The project will provide a set of improved and harmonised analytical instruments for valuation and internalisation of externalities to assess their direct and indirect impact, co-create solutions and provide guidance to policymakers, businesses, and other actors.
The overall objective is, thus, to redefine the value of food through tools, policies, and business models that point towards sustainable production and consumption in the food system.
In short,
FooDCoST will:
- Build a STAKEHOLDER PLATFORM supporting the transition towards a sustainable food system.
- Create a harmonised methodology for the VALUATION of externalities and an EU-global database of externality data.
- Develop a framework for the INTERNALISATION of externalities through policies, business models and strategies.
- Assess the IMPACT of internalising externalities and outline the FOODCoST Roadmap.
Source: https://www.foodcost-project.eu/
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