Regional technical cooperation project on Origin-based and tradition-based quality of food products.

This project is implemented in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Programme of FAO. The objective is to improve the capacity of the institutions and of local organizations to support and/or conduct development programmes in the field of local quality products in Latin America. The project is considering two levels of intervention: local level through pilot cases (one in each country, in order to implement the methodology built with all the stakeholders) and the institutional level, through workshops and trainings, in order to support the implementation of the GIs and for the capacity-building of the stakeholders.

Duration : December 2009 – October 2011

National and Regional workshop in Peru, November 2011 (in Spanish)

National and Regional workshop in Ecuador, November 2010 (in Spanish)

Peru

National and Regional workshop in Peru, November 2011 (in Spanish)

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Ecuador

National and Regional workshop in Ecuador, November 2010 (in Spanish)

Producer training, Cacao Arriba DO, by the NGO Corporación IG-DE (in Spanish)


La denominación de origen Cacao Arriba: una herramienta para conservar y promover la calidad del cacao fino y de aroma floral, y promover su comercio internacional
Requisitos que deben cumplir los productores para solicitar la autorización de uso de la DO Cacao Arriba: Aspectos técnicos
Requisitos que deben cumplir los productores para solicitar la autorización de uso de la DO Cacao Arriba: Aspectos jurídicos
Resolución INPI
Pliego de condiciones
Fotos


Second national workshop, 16 December 2011, Guayaquil (in Spanish)

Programa
Proyecto “Calidad de los alimentos vinculada al origen y las tradiciones en América Latina” y propuesta de implementación de metodología sobre círculo virtuoso de la calidad. María Teresa Oyarzún, Consultora Regional FAO del Proyecto.
Normativa de Denominaciones de Origen en Ecuador y Resultados del caso piloto “Cacao Arriba”, Pablo Carrillo, Corporación IG-DE.
Proyecto Piloto “Denominación de Origen Cacao Arriba”; resultados, problemas, lecciones aprendidas. Sergio Pino P., Docente de la Universidad Agraria del Ecuador; Consultor FAO.
Sistema de certificación y control del cacao arriba. MT Oyarzun, Consultora Regional FAO del proyecto.




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Brasil

Technical meeting on pilot case of Brasil, Guarana de Satawe-Mawe/Manaus 1st July 2011, Brasilia (in portuguese)


Apresentação IG no Brasil –Lúcia Fernandes e Susana Serrão- INPI
Apresentação IG em Maués – Projeto Guaraná – Klerysson Santana
Apresentação ACOPIAMA – Projeto Guaraná dos Sateré-Mawé - Obadias Garcia, Maurizio Fraboni
Apresentação trabalho da FUNAI – Karina Cinthia de Carvalho Muniz Medeiros
Apresentação Projeto Piloto – Beatriz Junqueira e Patrícia Saraiva
Video Guarana de Maues




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Chile

Seminar on Geographical indication and appellation of origin in Chile – Santiago de Chile 1st September 2011 (in Spanish)



Programa

Normativa de Indicaciones Geográficas y Denominaciones de Origen de Productos Alimenticios en Chile. Adán González. Jefe Departamento Legislativo, INAPI

Rol del Ministerio de Agricultura en el registro de Indicaciones Geográficas y Denominaciones de Origen de Productos Alimenticios en Chile. Verónica Echávarri. Departamento de Política Agraria, ODEPA

Situación actual del Limón de Pica: producto con Indicación Geográfica en Chile. Giorgio Napoli. Presidente Cooperativa Agrícola de Pica

Proyecto TCP/RLA/3211 “Calidad de los alimentos vinculada al origen y las tradiciones en América Latina” y propuesta de implementación de metodología sobre círculo virtuoso de la calidad. María Teresa Oyarzún. Consultora Nacional y Regional del Proyecto

Informe del seminario




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Argentina

Seminario taller de Argentina Buonos Aires ,7 y 8 setiembre de 2011 (in Spanish)

Report of the second national workshop (Spanish)

• Rescatar y preservar productos, diferenciarlos, protegerlos de usurpaciones, contribuir a reforzar la identidad territorial. Las 4 Etapas del Círculo Virtuoso de la Calidad FAO.  Elena Schiavone, Marcelo Champredonde.
  
  
• El contexto territorial en el que emergen los productos típicos: los conceptos de cultura, territorio, identidad territorial. Andrea Benedetto.
  
  
• Influencia de factores territoriales en la emergencia de las calidades específicas asociadas a un territorio. Tipicidad y reputación como base para las IG/DO. Marcelo Champredonde.
  
  
• La calidad específica asociada a un territorio como base para la construcción de una IG ó una DO. La tipicidad como reconstrucción colectiva local (del productor al consumidor). Marcelo Champredonde.
  
  
• Experiencias sobre la puesta en marcha de un proyecto de construcción de una IG/DO: involucramiento de los actores concernidos, Roles temporales de los actores, El desafío de lograr acuerdos. Marcelo Perez Centeno.
  
  
• Marco legal Internacional y Nacional. Para que sirven las IG/DO? Protocolo registrado como patrón de verificación. Protección, acciones. Otras estrategias y herramientas para la valorización de productos con identidad territorial. Elena Schiavone.
  
  
• Presentación de las solicitudes de reconocimiento de una IG/DO. Diagnóstico. Requisitos para la presentación de las solicitudes de registro de una IG/DO. Documentación de respaldo. Criterios de análisis.  Hector Nubio, equipo MAGyP.
  
  
• Control y verificación. Introducción a control y certificación, El Estado,  Sistema Nacional de Control de Alimentos, Defensa del Consumidor, Provincias. Elena Schiavone, Marcelo Perez Centeno.
  
  
• Certificación de tercera parte, rol de profesionales y certificadores.  Pedro Landa.
  
  
• Casos en proceso de construcción. Grilla de identificación FAO:

• Tomate Platense. Ing. José María Garat, UNLP.
  
• Caso Ajos del Valle de Calingasta. Prof. Antonio LLoveras.
  
• Caso Melon de Media Agua. Alfredo Reyes.
  

Photos



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Costa Rica

Premier taller nacional, 18 octubre 2011 (in Spanish)


Informe

• Sellos de calidad: características, objetivos y diferencias en el contexto europeo. Implicaciones en el marco de los tratados comerciales, Filippo Montesi, FAO
  
  
• Cadenas de valor y mecanismos de diferenciación en los mercados, Rafael Díaz, CINPE, UNA
  
  
• Avances y experiencias en el desarrollo del proyecto piloto de mora criolla de Costa Rica, Wilson Picado, CadenAgro, UNA
  
  
• La experiencia costarricense en los procesos de solicitud de indicaciones geográficas (IG) y denominaciones de origen (DO), Jonathan Lizano, Registro Nacional, Costa Rica.
  
  
• Pertinencia de los estudios de cata y degustación para la definición de la calidad específica de un producto, Francisco Mena, Exclusive Coffees, Costa Rica.
  
  
• Desarrollo de sellos de calidad en el marco de la Unión Europea. El papel de los consejos reguladores y los procesos participativos, Filippo Montesi, FAO>
  
  
• El rol del Consejo Nacional de Producción en la gestión de signos de calidad diferenciada por el territorio, Marvin Rojas-CNP.
  

 

In the framework of a memorandum of understanding between FAO and the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico (IPN) (2010-2011), technical assistance is provided to strengthen the production of traditional Cotija cheese in its region of origin (Jalisco and Michoacán), through food safety and specific quality assessment and recommendations for the elaboration on specifications.

Further information concerning Cotija cheese can be found in this case study (in Spanish)

In the framework of the two following projects, a video has been made in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fishery of Morocco. The idea is to give an overview of origin-linked products in Morocco, the Saffron of Taliouine in particular, and of the institutional framework for the recognition and protection of quality seals.
Video in French and in Arabic

Support to development and the implementation of a recognition system for specific quality signs and origin-based labels in Morocco.

Project TCP/MOR/3104 is implemented in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Programme of FAO. The main objective of this project is to support Moroccan ministerial departments in the implementation of the institutional framework for promoting and preserving origin-based quality products. The following results are expected:

• Finalization of legislative texts about quality linked to geographical origin schemes
  

• Capacity building of the institutional actors: administrative, members of the national commission for these schemes and control/certification staffs

• Interested or concerned public and private actors are sensitized , and the ones involved in the pilot projects are trained

• Supported three pilot projects in the implementation of their own GI, to serve as learning process and models for other local process (Béni Guil Lamb, Dattes of Errachidia, Olive Oil Tyout Chiadma).

Duration : May 2008 – January 2009

Study tour (in French)

Pilot cases workshops (in French)

Procedures (in French)

• Procedures Manual for the National Commission on Specific Quality and Origin-linked Signs
  
• Procedures Manual for Certifiers of Specific Quality and Origin-linked Signs
• Guidelines for registration

Final seminar (in French)

Capacity-building of the local stakeholders to develop mountain quality products – Example of Saffron.

Project TCP/MOR/3201is implemented in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Programme of FAO. The main objective of this project is the improvement of small-scale mountain producers’ livelihood in the area of Atlas Mountains, by implementing a concrete strategy for adding value to Saffron of Taliouine and Tazenakht, including the development of a specific quality scheme. The main activity consists in capacity-building for the practitioners, facilitators and rural development executives (training for trainers) and saffron producers involving the previously trained facilitators, on sustainable agricultural practices, improvement of processing, market identification and setting up of marketing connections, code of practice for specific quality labels (GI, organic, fair-trade), supply chain organization.

Duration : April 2008 – January 2010

Reports (in French)

• Biodiversity and phytogenic resources – Birouk, 2009
• Agronomic diagnosis of the cultivation of saffron in the regions of Taliouine-Taznakht, 2009 – Ways of improving of agricultural practices,2009– Aboudrare
• Lifelong learning on sustainable agronomy (Principles and Practices) – Aboudrare, 2009
• Contributions from rural sociology – Bouchekha, 2009
• Packaging techniques and storage– Ait-Oubahou, 2009
• Training, awareness- raising and organisation of producers of saffron –  Association « Migration et Développement,  2010
• Final report on producers training, Association Migration et Développement, 2011
• International Trade (first mission 2008) – International Trade (second mission 2010) – Vaes

Manuels (in French)

• Good agronomic practices and procedures for the setting up of demonstrative attempts for the technical conduct of saffron – Aboudrare, 2009
• Factsheets on good practices for technical conduct of saffron in the region of Taliouine-Taznakht – Aboudrare, 2010



• Guidelines for production of Saffron in Taliouine-Tazenacht region,  2011

Support to development and implementation of a control system for origin-based quality products.

Project TCP/TUN/3202 is implemented in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Programme of FAO. The main objective of the project is to support the implementation of the legal and institutional framework and the development of quality linked to geographical origin schemes. The main expected results are:

• Finalization of  the legal and institutional framework, including the control system (traceability along the supply chains, control, certification, accreditation and the registration and protection system)

• Capacity building of the institutional actors: administrative, members of the national commission for these schemes and control/certification staffs

• Interested or concerned public and private actors are sensitized, and the ones involved in the pilot projects are trained

• Supported various pilot projects in the implementation of their own GI or its marketing, to serve as learning process and models for other local process (Apple of Sbiba, Pomegranate of Gabes, Orange of Cap Bon, Lamb meat of Black of Thibar, El Jem olive oil, etc.)

Duration : March 2008 – December 2009

Newsletter (in French): May 2009 - January 2009 - October 2008

Study tour (in French)

Procedures (in French)

• Procedures manual
• Guidelines for registration
• Training document and power point presentations

Final workshop (in French)

SUPPORTING PRODUCERS’ ORGANISATIONS FOR A BETTER EXPLOITATION OF PRODUCTIONS IN THE CIRCLES OF BANDIAGARA AND MENAKA

The project GTFS/MLI/030/ITA is implemented in the framework of the Food Security Program of FAO by the Division in charge of supporting the development of policies and programs (TCS), with technical support from the Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division (AGS), and a trust fund financed by Italy. The overall objective is to contribute to reducing poverty in the most vulnerable communes in Mali, particularly in around hundred villages of eleven communes of the Dogon Plateau. The specific objectives are to:

• Strengthen the capacity of producers’ organizations (POs), women and other non-state support structures in the management of horticultural sectors;
• Diversify and secure the production of horticultural sectors in promoting access to resources and means of production;
• Increase value of horticultural production and incomes of vulnerable groups targeted by the establishment of a central condition, processing, market access, competitiveness and modernization of agriculture.

It is also envisaged the creation of a quality and origin label.  Work is currently underway on the Dogon Plateau with the goal of comprehensive characterization of the shallot, in the prospect of initiating a specific quality process that can lead to a geographical indication.
Duration: August 2008 - December 2012

Presentation of characterization works (in French)

Further information concerning the Dogon shallot can be found in the following document:
“A Geographical indication for  the Dogon shallot as a tool for territorial development: strengths and weaknesses of the process” – Dissertation submitted by Anne Mayer – Montpellier Sup-Agro – 2011

PROMOTING ORIGIN-LINKED QUALITY PRODUCTS IN FOUR AFRICAN COUNTRIES

Promotion of local products to preserve food traditions and biodiversity in four countries: Guinea Bissau, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone, under the sub-regional project GTFS/RAF/426/ITA, supervised by the Division in charge of supporting the development of policies and programs (TCS), in collaboration with the Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industries Division (AGS) and the Nutrition and Consumer Protection Division (AGN). A protocol has been established with Slow Food (international association operating for the preservation of wine and food) to carry out the following activities:

• Identify products with specific quality linked to origin in four countries to implement pilot programs of quality-linked to origin and serve as models (at least one per country) for rural communities and small-scale farmers
• Improving producers’ organizations in each pilot case, to increase efficiency in production (by improving and defining the specificity of the product) and the institutional network
• Encourage access to new markets for the pilot products, locally, nationally and internationally
• Improve knowledge of local national and international consumers regarding culinary traditions and traditional production techniques of the concerned countries

Duration: 2 years

First progress report

Assessment of GI potential and its realisation in support of Rural Development.

This project is implemented in the framework of the Technical Cooperation Programme of FAO, through a Facility carried out by the regional office of FAO for Europe and Central Asia (FAO REU). The aim is to explore the possibilities for investments in an enabling environment for GI to play a major role in rural development. The assessment will be based on the inventory of products suitable to acquire GI label and the potential of Ukrainian GI products on export and domestic markets, taking into account the current institutional framework.

Duration: December 2009 - May 2010

Report

National seminar :  Presentations

Support to development of origin-linked quality products in Croatia

This project has been launched under the FAO/EBRD cooperation and it is lead by the FAO Investment Center (TCI). It aims at building capacity both at an institutional level, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, and through the valorization of two pilot cases: the Baranski Kulen (pork meat sausage) and the Neretva mandarins, in collaboration with the Croatian company Agrokor.

Duration: 18 months.

Conference and training workshop for National Commission members of Geographical Indications in Croatia, Zagreb, 6-8 April 2011- Presentations and material 

Study tour for sausage producers in Parma Region, Italy Presentations and material (English or Italian)

Northern mountain development through atlas of specialty products

The regional office for Asia and the Pacific of FAO is providing technical assistance to an FAO Technical Cooperation Project Facility component in Viet Nam on Northern mountain development. This activity is aiming at assessing the marketing potential of traditional products from the Northern mountainous provinces in order to foster local development. This mapping exercise could also lead to the identification of products and local communities that could benefit from the establishment of a GI. The Rural Development Centre of the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development is identifying the specialty and typical products of 15 provinces in the Northern mountainous area in Viet Nam with an aim of making an atlas of these special products as well as a publication introducing specialty and typical products of each province.

Duration: 12 months. Expected completion by December 2009

Establishment of a national strategy for promotion and preservation of specific quality products: the case of yak products.

This project is part of the FAO-Multi-Donor Partnership Program (FMPP) in Bhutan.
It aims at assessing the potential and feasibility of implementing specific quality schemes for Bhutanese products. The first expected outcome of this project is the definition of a national strategy for preserving and promoting high-quality traditional products of Bhutan. It will involve the assessment of the institutional framework for implementing specific quality schemes in Bhutan as well as an analysis of market opportunities and an evaluation of the yak production system. According to the findings of the assessment phase, a specific quality scheme for Yak products will be proposed (identification the most adequate type of quality scheme to implement in order to promote these products on the market, proposition of a development strategy).

Duration of the assessment phase: June-December 2009

Presentation of the proposal for the national strategy