Transform value chains, businesses and policies to facilitate the transition to agroecology
CISAS is a research centre from the Polytechnic University of Viana do Castelo in Northern Portugal. We are a team of 80+ scientists covering all aspects of the food chain, from farm to fork. We are interested in entering a consortium aiming to develop a project proposal on topic 1 of this call: Determine and assess benefits/impacts and trade-offs of agroecology, and
identify best practices, in any of the Themes: Theme 1 Transformation and development of new business models in the value chains to facilitate the agroecological transition; Theme 2 Coordination among actors, social innovations and policies to enhance the agroecological transition
CISAS-IPVC is a research center with 80+scientists covering the entire food chain: agronomists, zootechnitians, veterinaries, soil scientists, water scientists, biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, social scientists, geographers, and many others.
We are fully equipped with labs for chemistry, microbiology, molecular biology, food technology, plant technology, and we have an experimental kitchen, sensory analysis lab, a pilot winery, and pilot-scale post-harvest facility. We also have an experimental farm with orchards, vineyards, crop fields and a zootechnical station.Please visit us at https://cisas.ipvc.pt/ for further details. You can contact Fernando Mata: fernandomata@ipvc.pt