When & where
30 months, 6 Countries, 9 Mediterranea regions
PEFMED runs from November 2016 to April 2019 and consists in 4 main phases implemented in 9 target MED regions
· Italy: Apulia and Lombardy;
· France: Rhône Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
· Spain: Cataluña and Andalucía;
· Portugal: Alentejo;
· Greece: Thessalia;
· Slovenia: Zahodna Slovenija
Phase | MAIN ACTIONS |
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1 - selection of product groups and supply chains | Interpolation of 9 MED regions and pilot product groups (dairy, meat, olive oil, wine, feed, packaged water)to support the choice of the exact clusters/supply chains involved in the testing phase |
2 - elaboration of the PEFMED method | Profiling of the territory-based PEF operational methodology, by combining the benchmarks for the EU PEF pilot tests with further key-indicators deriving by PACMAN, ENVIRONMED, SINERGIA, PRESOURCE projects and from socio-economic factors. During this phase, a transnational group of LCA experts are trained to apply the PEFMED method in the 9 pilot agrofood supply chain |
3 - implementation of the "stress-tests" | Implementation of 9 case-studies which combine the PEF methodology with socio-economic indicators, within given regional backgrounds. This phase ends up with a distance-to-target report from the EU benchmarks. Then, the information of PEF-compliance performance of each agrofood productive systems help identifying “worst in class” & “best in class” products and introduce tailored actions to move towards ecoinnovative interventions or to develop territory-based PEF business plans for the commercial exploitation of already PEF compliant agrofood clusters |
4 - comparison, policy uptake and replication | One comparative assessments of the pilot actions and the degree of PEF requirements applicability is contained in a final position paper. The transferability strategy is then streamlined, with the support of 6 National roadmaps addressed to MED regions to pave the ground to a favorable policy & entrepreneurial context to extend PEF-oriented model. Alongside, PEFMED triggers a knowledge vouchering initiative to encourage further agrofood clusters to adopt the PEFMED method |