Adrien Guichaoua (ACTA), Alun Jones (CIHEAM), Joaquin Balduque Gil (IAMZ-CIHEAM), Philippe Delval (ACTA), Nicolas Munier-Jolain (INRAE)
Abstract
In order to optimise outreach and increase the impact of the project, WP7 seeks collaborations with several types of stakeholders, expecting to engage a diversity of stakeholders in the activities of an extended IPM Farm Demo network. Deliverable 7.2 summarizes the state of the art of the contacts and interactions established by IPMWORKS WP7 with European Stakeholders in the first half of the project as targeted in the Grant Agreement.
As the project officially started during the COVID crisis, some delay have been initially accumulated in terms of networking and relationships with European Stakeholders, due to physical meeting restrictions. Consequently, WP7 team focused in priority on the first group of stakeholders mentioned in the description of the Task 7.2 and representing primary producers (CEJA, COPA COGECAS) as well as Research and Innovation actors and networks (EIP-AGRI Support Unit, SCAR-AKIS SWG, EUFRAS). The following sections describe the interactions, joint activities and decision taken with the above mentioned stakeholders.
During the last phase of the project, WP7 will continue interactions with these stakeholders but will also focus on stakeholders of the Agri-food chain (such as European Fruit and Vegetables Trade Association, FoodDrinkEurope, EuropeanFood Information Council, PAN Europe, and IOBC) to promote IPMWORKS results and IPM-sourced produces in novel market chains likely to provide both trade opportunities and added value for farmers
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