HelpFood 4.0, digital innovation for circular agri-food systems

The European consortium promoting food in terms of sustainability

As part of the European EIT Food programme, HelpFood 4.O studies Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) models promoting the social sustainability of agri-food production. In this context, the role of digital technologies can be explained with the goal of designing distribution systems able to reach a wide range of aware consumers, ensuring adequate remuneration for farms operating in the area.

Digital and circular: HelpFood 4.0 food sustainability

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Name of project:

HelpFood 4.0 – Food Ecosystem Scalability

Duration:

12 month

Years:

2022

Target markets:

Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA)

Partners

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile Ambientale e Meccanica dell’Università di Trento, Fondazione Hub Innovazione Trentino (HIT), Fondazione Edmund Mach, Building Global Innovators, BioAzùl, University of Helsinki, City of Gothenburg

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THE IMPLEMENTED SOLUTION

The project aims to study the viability of landscape and social infrastructures that allow the sustainability of food production to be shared by local communities. Shortening the distance between farmers and ‘eaters’ requires the implementation and management of material and digital devices. Improving the efficiency of the supply chain means considering the landscape as a place of innovation in which the circularity of rural economies finds in food the connecting element between growers, communities, and a growing number of aware consumers.

ACHIEVED BENEFITS

Supporting the development of solutions focused on:
  • optimal allocation of agricultural goods on local markets
  • shared management of distribution models
  • spreading of sustainable production and consumption models
  • willingness to network between producers and consumers
  • inclusiveness in change processes
  • care and enhancement of the territory

HelpFood 4.0 – Food Ecosystem Scalability

An EIT Food project about the short food supply chain. We investigate local food production and practices as a cultural and social pillar for the agroecological transition, digital innovation, social inclusion, landscape care and enhancement! Thank you to all the participants of the consortium for this multilingual video to introduce into the HelpFood 4.0 project and the local food practices to have welcomed us!
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