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A nutrition-sensitive value chain (NSVC) is a food value chain that has been shaped to alleviate constraints in the supply or demand of food, as they relate to dietary and nutrition problems...

This yearly update of the nova-Institute’s report (commissioned by BIC) into Europe’s bio-based industries reveals that, despite significant changes in this year’s assessment due to Brexit, the bio-based industries...

Food systems are made up of a cluster of different value chains, including output, lateral, and research and development. This paper explores the rise of SMEs in transforming food systems—from...

IFAD’s Near East, North Africa and Europe (NEN) Division operates across 21 countries spread across three continents. The economies, agricultural ecosystems, climates...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated rapidly over the past several...

Almost 22 percent of deaths worldwide can be attributed to unhealthy diets, according to the Global Burden of Disease study, making unhealthy diets the world’s biggest...

Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) and smart contracts provide a unique opportunity to bring greater efficiency, transparency and traceability to the exchange of value and information in the agriculture sector. This paper...

Learn more about the development of a sustainable and circular bioeconomy in the South Baltic Region (SBR).

EDFI AgriFI is an EU-funded impact investment facility with a mandate to provide medium to long-term financing to private sector enterprises active in the agri-food value chain with a focus on smallholder...