EULAFF is supported by the European Commission Directorate-General
for Research

EULAFF Actions Planned

EULAFF has planned to develop a series of interconnected lectures, debates, roundtables and symposia concerning all the relevant levels or key success factors for the development of a bi-regional functional food chain.These activities are categorized in four successive work packages, each focused on particular aspects of functional food development issues:

Work Package 1:“Science and Technology: Latin American agro-biodiverse crops as source for functional food development”

  1. Lectures on “Health promoting functions from Latin American Agro-biodiverse Crops”, Frankfurt, November 2006.
  2. Lectures on “Traditional medicinal plants and other uses of Amazonian Crops”, Brasil, November 2007.
  3. Symposium “Latin American biological diversity of agricultural crops as source for functional food development”, Ghent, Belgium, July 2008.

Work Package 2:“Intellectual property rights and technology transfer: building a new functional food-chain”

  1. Roundtable “European IPR position on functional foods”, Barcelona, September 2007.
  2. Symposium “Biodiversity and intellectual property rights: building a new functional food chain”, Viña del Mar, Chile, October 2007.
  3. Debate on “Traditional Knowledge and industrial use of genetic resources from biodiverse countries”, Mexico DF, March 2008.
  4. Debate on “Economic valorisation of agro-biodiverse crops: food industry position on intellectual property rights”, Porto, Portugal, 6-8 May 2008.

Work Package 3:“Bio-commerce of agro-biodiverse crops and functional food product development”

  1. Symposium “Bio-commerce of agricultural crops with functional properties and functional food product development”, Peru-Bolivia, July 2008.
  2. Roundtable on “Regional SMEs involved in bio-commerce of agro-biodiverse crops”, Colombia, November 2008.
  3. Roundtable on “The role of multinational corporations in the trade of agro-biodiverse crops”, Ghent, Belgium, June 2009.

WP 4: Virtual Community Network, information flow and on-line resources

This work package relates to general information and communication activities.A webpage will be designed and open to continuous dissemination of knowledge resulting not only from the featured activities but also the individual knowledge assets from the participants and related associates.As, well, through the webpage and electronic mail the project will foster active communication to expert groups and decision makers rendering scientific and technical information about the biological diversity of agricultural crops accessible in Latin America.