Sustainable Networks for Agro-food Innovation Leading in the Mediterranean

Programme 2014 - 2020 Mediterranean Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2024-03-25

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Description (EN):

Many challenges are threatening the Mediterranean agro-food sector like the gradual loss of local varieties, a high sectorial fragmentation, rural poverty (mostly affecting women) and limited investment capacity of rural entrepreneurs, lack of training on socio-environmental sustainability, weak business planning and marketing strategies. Moreover, EU food security regulations represent a barrier for many small producers from non-EU countries. MedSNAIL will address these issues by fostering the enhancement and development of small-scale traditional agro-food value chains that will offer increased business opportunities and more socio-environmental sustainability. The project will build on the well-established experience and methods of SlowFood, an international grassroots organization promoting traditional food with a strong focus on biodiversity preservation.

Achievements (EN):

MedSNAIL promotes the value of local consumption through its Chefs' Alliance, Narrative Labels and Geodatabase: After months of intensive work with the food ecosystems of the six MedSNAIL pilot areas in Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Spain and Tunisia, the project has launched two of its main pilot initiatives, inspired by the methodology of MedSNAIL's Italian partner, the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. MedSNAIL Narrative Labels On the one hand, the Narrative Labels initiative works to strengthen the productive network MedSNAIL pilot areas making visible the attributes of local products through a distinctive labelling system that values their origin, production process and elaboration. This action aims to raise awareness among local citizens of the added value of these local products beyond their industrial labelling, highlighting the way in which they have been produced and processed. In addition, this initiative brings these local products closer to consumer profiles that are aware of responsible and local consumption, as well as introducing them into new sales channels. MedSNAIL Chefs’ Alliance On the other hand, the MedSNAIL Chefs' Alliance initiative works to consolidate direct relationships and linkages among professionals in the gastronomic sector. At the same time, it seeks to foster and strengthen the collaboration between chefs and producers. This directory compiles an entire catalog of Mediterranean restaurants committed to local products grown and processed taking into account the value of tradition, respect for local biodiversity and artisan work. Finally, the MedSNAIL Geodatabase is a digital tool developed by Slow Food that allows any user to gain knowledge of the pilot areas that have participated in the project, as well as to identify the products selected as strategic by means of product files that describe their nature, production process and history. MedSNAIL Legacy: The methodological development of MedSNAIL should be understood as a “living” process in which the different pilot areas of the project have adapted the starting resources by introducing strategic innovations and sharing difficulties and solutions, resulting in a set of “territorialised” processes to move towards competitive, fair and sustainable food systems in the Mediterranean. In this way, the MedSNAIL Legacy will serve to document and transfer the main results of the project, in both quantitative and qualitative formats, to the future. Furthermore, it also aims to serve as a summary document, tracing the trajectory of the project as a Mediterranean cooperation experience, in which each partner, from its geographical area and field of expertise, has contributed and has been enriched with multiple lessons learned, which are also manifested in the pages of the document. With all this, the MedSNAIL Legacy is a proof, in the words of the partners themselves, of the transformative capacity that the project has shown in the areas selected for its implementation, and of how MedSNAIL has contributed to moving towards more sustainable agri-food models that are better able to face the challenges of our time.

Website: http://www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/medsnail

Expected Results (EN):

1 study on the agro-biodiversity in the target regions. 2 training courses on slow food approach and best practices. 1 MedSNAIL alliance among small producers, publish authorities and business to promote good, clean and fair food. 90 MSMEs involved in sustainable food value chain pilot projects. 6 slow-hubs created to provide consultancy services to agro-food MSMEs. 6 farmers’ markets created. 1 Euro-Mediterranean “Chef Alliance” established.

Expected Outputs (EN):

3.1 - Agro biodiversity study, 3.2 - MedSNAIL geodatabase & open online platform, 3.3 - MedSNAIL strategic framework, 3.4 - Training courses on MedSNAIL approach, 3.5 - MedSNAIL Alliance, 3.6 - MedSNAIL Legacy, 4.1 - Sustainable food value chain pilot projects, 4.2 - Marketing and promotion tools, 4.3 - New memberships of Terra Madre network, 4.5 - Slow-hubs for quality consultancy services to SMEs.

Thematic information

Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Fédération andalouse des villes et provinces

Department: Programs, Networks and Equal Policy Department

Address: AVD. SAN FRANCISCO JAVIER, 22. EDIFICIO HERMES 3ª PLANTA, MÓDULO 14, 41018 Sevilla, Spain

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.famp.es

Total budget: EUR 369 000.20

ENI budget: EUR 332 100.18

Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità – ONLUS

Name: Fondazione Slow Food per la Biodiversità – ONLUS

Address: Piazzale degli Uffizi c/o l'Accademia dei Georgofili, 50100 Firenze, Italy

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/

Total budget: EUR 373 008.42

ENI budget: EUR 335 707.58

الجامعة الأمركية في بيروت

Name: الجامعة الأمركية في بيروت

Department: ESDU-Environment, Sustainability, and Development Unit

Address: Bliss Street, P.O.BOX 11 0236, 11072020 Beirut, Lebanon

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://website.aub.edu.lb

Total budget: EUR 360 840.38

ENI budget: EUR 324 756.34

Gozo Regional Development Foundation

Name: Gozo Regional Development Foundation

Department: Gozo Regional Development Foundation

Address: 10th June 1887 Street, Victoria VCT 1017Gozo, Malta

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.mcesd.org.mt

Total budget: EUR 217 171.48

ENI budget: EUR 195 454.33

جمعية تنمية المرأة الريفية

Name: جمعية تنمية المرأة الريفية

Department: نعمل على تمكين المرأة الريفية اقتصاديا واجتماعيا وسياسيا

Address: Ramallah - Sabat Bldg. - 2nd Floor, P.O.Box: 4295 Al-BirehRamallah, Palestine

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.rwds.ps

Total budget: EUR 251 218.88

ENI budget: EUR 226 096.99

جامعة صفاقس

Name: جامعة صفاقس

Address: Airport Road, Km 0,5, PO BOX 1169, 3029 Sfax, Tunisia

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.uss.rnu.tn

Total budget: EUR 213 144.00

ENI budget: EUR 191 829.60

جمعية نساء للتنمية الثقافية (نماء)

Name: جمعية نساء للتنمية الثقافية (نماء)

Department: Women Empowerment

Address: 4 Ebn tufail St. Alwaibdeh, 11194 Amman, Jordan

Legal status: n/a

Website: http://www.namaajo.org

Total budget: EUR 244 424.38

ENI budget: EUR 219 981.94

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Andalusian Federation of Towns and Provinces

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Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity

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American University of Beirut

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Gozo Regional Development Foundation

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The Rural Women’s Development Society Economic, social and political Empowerment for rural women’s

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University of Sfax

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Women for Cultural Development (Namaa)

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Summary

Project name (EN): Sustainable Networks for Agro-food Innovation Leading in the Mediterranean

Project acronym: MedSNAIL

Project start date: 2019-09-01

Project end date: 2022-08-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 028 807.74

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 825 926.97

Co-financing sources:

ENPI/ENI/NDICI: Amount, EUR 1 825 926.97.

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2014 - 2020 Mediterranean Sea Basin ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2024-02-09

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

80 / 80 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

610 / 610 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.enicbcmed.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-28. Fields project name (from 3 projects) translated from French into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: RESMYLE, OENOMED and RE-MED.

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