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The goals were to facilitate the building of a co-creation and stakeholder platform to engage various value chain stakeholders in participatory manner and interactions with the SUCCESS partners. Through this enable targeted consulting actions (e.g. workshops, focus groups) with relevant actors like the fishermen, aquaculture producers and their associations, and to engage value chain operators driving the market interactions between primary producers, sellers and the consumers, Following is a list of selected sustainable market perspectives from the SUCCESS co-creation work with stakeholders: Different cultural perspectives exist that may motivate stakeholders differently across Europe, i.e. North vs. South European perspectives, and also differences arising from the Common Fishery Policy (CFP) vs. elsewhere in Europe not covered by the CFP. Many policy options must be assessed at the individual case study level (due to heterogeneity). Data collection improvement is considered important (for e.g. labour, capital structure/lack of market oriented and environmental indicators, and more disaggregated data is needed. Technical efficiency is considered important for improving environmentally friendly fishing methods. Imperative to simplify and improve legal frameworks and regulations, e.g. to reduce conflicts between short term and long term issues and overlap of local regional, national, EU terms of reference. Environmental regulation clarity improvement needed, and better information basis required with focus on spatial management considerations, especially in aquaculture. Consider if ecosystem services provided by e.g. carp aquaculture could be promoted as part of Natura and tourism. 7.Labelling for sustainability, origin and quality schemes remains a complicated issue, resulting in label fatigue, consumer segmentation and country differences that can provide negative or positive impacts. Impacts direction relies on informing consumers properly for informed choices, and implementing measures targeting, or ...

The functioning of food value chains entails a complex organisation from farm to fork which is characterised by various governance forms and externalities which have shaped the overall food system. VALUMICS food value chain case studies: wheat to bread, dairy cows to milk, beef cattle to steak, farmed salmon to fillets and tomato to processed tomato were selected to enable explorative and empirical analysis to better understand the functioning of the food system and, to identify the main challenges that need to be addressed to improve sustainability, integrity, resilience, and fairness of European food chains. The VALUMICS system analysis was executed through four operational phases starting with Groundwork & analysis including mapping specific attributes and impacts of food value chains and their externalities. This was followed by Case study baseline analysis, which provided input to the third phase on Modelling and exploration of future scenarios and finally Policy and synthesis of the overall work. This report is an overall synthesis of the VALUMICS results as follows: • Key findings from the VALUMICS project on the functioning of European food value chains and their impacts on more sustainable, resilient, fairer, and transparent food system are summarised through a compilation of 25 Research Findings and Policy Briefs. • By highlighting the major contributions from the research activities throughout the four phases of the VALUMICS project, this report delivers an assessment of various factors influencing sustainability, resilience, efficiency and fairness and effective chain relationships of different food value chains, and their determinants. • The synthesis of the outcome allows the identification of opportunities and challenges characterising the functioning of food supply chains, and thus, the prospects and potentials for strengthening the EU food sector. ; Citation: Olafsdottir, G., Bogason, S., Aubert, P.M., Barling, D., Thakur, M., Duric, I., Nicolau, M., McGarraghy, S., Sigurdardottir; H., ...