Project name: Holistic approach for tackling food systems risks in a changing global environment
Project number: 101059813
Call number: HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01
Total budget: 6 056 435 €
UVMB’s budget: 230 000 €
Duration:
from 1st October 2022 to 30th September 2026 (48 months)
HOLiFOOD is a Horizon Europe-funded project with the overall aim of developing an integrated food safety risk assessment framework in Europe to
- meet future challenges arising from Green Deal policy driven transitions in particular in relation to climate driven changes,
- contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and
- support the realization of a truly secure and sustainable food production.
HOLiFOOD will apply a system approach, which take the whole environment into account in which food is being produced, including economic, environmental and social aspects. Three supply chains will be considered (i.e. cereals [maize], legumes [lentils] and poultry [chicken]). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data technologies will be used in the development of early warning and emerging risks prediction systems for known and unknown food safety hazards. In addition, tools, methods and approaches will be developed for hazard detection and will be targeted and non-targeted and new holistic risk assessment methods will be develop in which food safety risk will be embedded in a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of the food system including positive and negative health, environment and economic dimensions.
The project is a consortium of 17 organisations, led by Wageningen Food Safety Research (The Netherlands) and will last for 48 months. The University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest – under the coordination of the Digital Food Institute – will be primarily involved in the development of data-driven forecasting systems and methods for identifying emerging risks, as well as risk-benefit and cost-benefit analyses.
For more information, visit the project website: https://holifoodproject.eu/