Ethical Food Entrepreneurship (EFE) - Erasmus+ Project: Food for People – Planet – Profit

• Autor(a) principal: Ramalhosa, Elsa
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Whyte, Paula, Saarela, Anna-Maria
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositórios Científicos de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/27675
• topic: Ethics; Food; Entrepreneurship; Research Subject Categories::TECHNOLOGY::Chemical engineering::Food technology

The food industry is a complex, collective of diverse businesses that supply our food in the context of great environmental challenge. The world’s growing food demand and the need for ethical and sustainable practices have become a challenge that the EU and the UN are encouraging us all to tackle. The food and drink industry is the EU's biggest manufacturing sector in terms of jobs and value-added. The industry is dominated by SMEs; however, self-employment in the EU has not risen in decades. Potential entrepreneurs and SMEs have been slow to respond - because they lack professional capacity or skills to innovate/orchestrate change in business development, production and marketing of ethical food. We want to initiate a change in this regard with EFE and encourage/promote potential entrepreneurs to take that leap with support and knowledge.The main objective of the present work is to present the Ethical Food Entrepreneurship (EFE) Project, an Erasmus+ Projec