LIFE Project: Connecting the cereal value chain and creating sustainable certification for carbon-neutral production in Europe.
- Type Project
- Status In progress
- Execution 2022 -2026
- Assigned Budget 3.057.003,00 €
- Scope Europeo
- Autonomous community Andalucía
- Main source of financing LIFE
- Project website Web del proyecto
The LIFE Innocereal project aims to facilitate connections between the links in the cereal value chain, creating certification systems for low-emission production, demonstrating their benefits for the entire supply chain, and increasing the added value of the final product (bread, pasta, beer).
The project team will create an ecosystem throughout the entire grain production chain, demonstrating high standards of sustainability and competitiveness at all stages of production in the flour, malting, and bakery industries.
Sustainable food systems and supply chains play a crucial role in ensuring food security. Cereal production is key to this, as it forms the basis of the human diet. Europe produces around 280 million tons of cereals annually, of which wheat accounts for 46%.
One of the greatest challenges for the European cereals industry is connecting the different sectors of the value chain to meet the 2030 climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies established in EU policy (e.g., the European Green Deal, the Farm to Fork Strategy). Achieving a circular and carbon-neutral agricultural sector requires investment in solutions that connect industry players to close the cereal production loop, thereby ensuring and promoting food security and the transition to sustainable agriculture.
- Connected grain supply chain that enables the implementation of innovative best practices.
- A quality and sustainability certification to improve the competitiveness of sustainable grain producers.
- Mitigating the carbon footprint of cereal production in Europe.
- Improve knowledge of durum wheat, soft wheat, and barley varieties to improve adaptation to climate change.
- Building knowledge at EU level to help promote supportive policies.
A communication plan, including a manual of good agricultural practices. - A close-to-market plan to demonstrate the potential for replication at EU level.
- Connecting the grain supply chain to socioeconomic benefits.
- Improving the environmental sustainability of cereal production.
- Coordinator/entity name: Katherine Franco
Postal address: AVENIDA DE MEDINA AZAHARA 5, 14005, CÓRDOBA,
- UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA
- EUROPEAN CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE FEDERATION
- LIMAGRAIN IBERICA S.A.
- MONBAKE GRUPO EMPRESARIAL S.A.U.
- ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE AGRICULTURA DE CONSERVACION SUELOS VIVOS
- HEINEKEN ESPANA SA
- HARINAS POLO, S.A
- ASOCIACION ESPANOLA DE TECNICOS CEREALISTAS
- ANTONIO TARAZONA, S.L.U
- CUETARA S.L.U.
- PRODUCTOS ALIMENTICIOS GALLO S.L.
- NSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE INVESTIGACION Y FORMACION AGRARIA PESQUERA ALIMENTARIA Y DE LA PRODUCCION ECOLOGICA
- Artadi Alimentacion S.L.
- AGRIFOOD SECTOR COMMUNICATION, S.L.
- SIPCAM IBERIA S.L
- GREENFIELD TECHNOLOGIES SL
- INTERMALTA SA
- COOPERATIVAS AGRO-ALIMENTARIAS DE ESPANA U DE COOP SOCIEDAD COOPERATIVA
- M. FERREIRA & FILHAS LDA
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