Number Topic Key aspects Main focus Leading partner(s)
1.
Reducing poverty among smallholder farmers through enhanced trade regimes and value chains for coffee in Uganda and Tanzania
Improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers through trade and food value chains; localisation of food systems, strengthening of territorial markets
Uganda, Tanzania
University Helsinki with Moshi Co-operative University and Makerere University
2.
Intra-EU trade, resilience and social sustainability: the case of the oats value chain in the Nordics
Resilience of trade-dependent food value chains in the context of intra-EU agri-food trade and social sustainability; sustainability and equity
Finland, Sweden, EU
University Helsinki
3.
Trade, sustainability and environmental linkages in Finnish dairy production
Mapping the linkages of dairy production and dairy trade with environmental externalities and production of ecosystem services
Finland, EU, trade partners
University Helsinki
4.
Priority Intervention Requirements to Enhance the Capacity of Sub Saharan African (SSA) Countries to Improve the Volume and Quality of Agri-food Exports -The cases of Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Ghana
Standards and market access; challenges related to WTO Rules and Regulations and/or EU requirements; strengthening of territorial markets
Sub-Saharan Africa
Economic and Social Research Foundation
5.
Role of policy frameworks and social cohesion for sustainable value chains and livelihoods in Ghana
Emerging markets; poultry chains; role of policy regulation regarding animal welfare, inputs and trade; competitiveness, sustainability, livelihoods
Ghana
Technical University of Madrid
6.
Raising of farm gate prices as part of a sustainable business model: investigation of theories of change towards living income
Experiences, obstacles, impact and lessons learned from a multistakeholder initiative on sustainability standards in the cacao sector
EU, Côte d’Ivoire
Oxfam Wereldwinkels
7.
Impacts of EU policies on local dairy value chains in West Africa
EU agricultural, trade, investment and development policies; impact on the development of local, fair and sustainable dairy chains
EU, Africa
Oxfam Solidarité - Oxfam Solidariteit
8.
Belgian imports of ethanol from sugar cane: shared responsibilities among EU MS of human rights violations
EU biofuel policies and mandates; sustainability criteria biofuels; EU climate funding, carbon markets, offset mechanism; palm oil; land use change
EU, America, Africa, Asia
Oxfam Solidarité - Oxfam Solidariteit
9.
Human rights and environmental due diligence in the coffee value chain
Integrating human rights and environmental due diligence in coffee chains; impact on production practices and smallholder farmers
Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda, Ethiopia
Oxfam Wereldwinkels
10.
Beef and policy coherence for sustainable development
EU agricultural, trade, investment and development policies; impact on local, fair, sustainable beef chains, including consumers and retailers
EU, Africa, South America
Research Centre on Animal Production, with Agribenchmark Beef
11.
Private standards and sustainable trade
Impact of processors/retailers' standards on development of local, fair, sustainable food chains; GLOBAL G.A.P.
Africa, Asia
Research Centre on Animal Production, with Global G.A.P
12.
Ethical trade initiatives in the South African wine industry
Assessment of local and global ethical trade programmes in South Africa (e.g. Fair Trade, Ethical Trading Initiative, Ethical Trade Association)
South Africa, trade partners
North-West University
13.
Dairy production, standards and competitiveness in global markets
Labour costs; additional costs resulting from environmental regulation; total production costs; processing and retail
EU, Africa, America
Research Centre on Animal Production, with International Farm Comparison Network
14.
Changing land-use trajectories due to the implementation of the EU-Mercosur trade agreement: the case of pork exports from Brazil to the EU
The case of pork exports from Brazil to the EU: trade agreements, EU-Mercosur; pork value chains, soya and palm oil production; deforestation
EU, Brazil
Technical University of Madrid with Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
15.
Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (DCFTAs) between the EU and selected North African countries, and their impact on agriculture, access to water and sustainability
Impact of EU-Tunisia FTA on incomes and market opportunities for farmers, fishers, breeders; ecological resilience, especially water scarcity
EU, N Africa (Tunisia)
Transnational Institute