Final Meeting of the GourMed PRIMA Project. Governance of the Food Supply Chain to Equilibrate Prices and Profits of High-Quality and Safe Mediterranean Foods
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 54
Special Issue Editors
Interests: food microbiology; food fermentation; gut microbiota; in vitro intestinal model; metabolomics; microbiomics; hemp; gluten-free; Bifidobacterium: qPCR; colon microbiota
Interests: fermented foods; microbial metabolites; functional foods
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Dear Colleagues,
Recent results from the GourMed project will be presented at the project’s final meeting to be held in Rimini on the 9th of September 2024. This project was created to provide support and ensure the effective governance of the Mediterranean food supply chain, balancing prices and profits while maintaining safety and quality. This project aimed to help people understand value creation and distribution in food chains involving small actors, developing a multi-actor strategy to enhance the competitiveness of Mediterranean agri-food chains. GourMed also aimed to implement real-life pilot projects to assess impacts and validate results, providing guidelines for the development of sustainable agri-food chains in the region. The research works collected cover the valorization of Mediterranean products obtained from small and fair producers, the food chains of cereals, tomatoes, carob syrups, and others, considering different aspects, such as nutrition, biochemistry, microbiology, traceability, and fairness and sustainability assessments.
Dr. Lorenzo Nissen
Dr. Andrea Gianotti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lifecycle assessment
- fairness in the food chain
- microbiological quality
- food functionality
- DNA barcoding
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