The consideration of issues related to sustainable development for French agro-food industries will induce them into challenges, as including food into an integrated life cycle from “cradle to grave”. Nowadays, the environmental life cycle analysis is framed by an international standardized methodology designed mainly for agricultural products. In proceeds food many firms has implemented methodologies to assess the environmental impacts of their products but there is still a lack of scientific validation of these methodologies. There is a need to provide an harmonized tool that could be used in different agro-food sectors. Morever, regarding to the consideration of social responsibility in its human, social, economical and territorial points of view, new methodologies need to be developed by research teams. The aim of the ACYDU project is to develop environmental, economic, social and territorial methodologies for analyzing life cycle conditions and to test them in three typically French agro-food industries: wine, Comté cheese and foie gras. This project, which type is "industrial and fundamental research" will be realized via an interdisciplinary collaborative work between: - Specialists from food chains studied (centers and technical institutes of food-processing industry, joint-trade organizations and unions) - Researchers in environmental impact assessment, economics, sociology - Specialists in consumer approach - Actors of distribution network and French food-processing industries representatives In addition, the ACYDU Project aim to identify different food sustainability attributes for the consumer, to test different sustainability information display and to propose recomandations for agro-food and actors and public institutions. Thus, we propose in ACYDU to participate in building knowledge in conceptual and empirical life cycle analysis methodology for food application on food, dealing with environmental social and territorial impacts added to an economical analysis, applied to three agro-food industries chosen in order to find where key locks and critical points are. Also, we will look for linking all the life cycle analysis results to supply to consumers “sustainability” information about the product they are consuming. Finally, we are looking forward to evaluating the replication potential of these methodologies to other agro-food industries and for their direct application in sustainability measurement by producers.

In line with the new CAP post2020, the F2F Strategy and the Green Deal, the EU4Advice Project will develop enabling methodologies and tools to connect short food supply chains (SFSCs) advisors in a common network with the aim of fostering the upscaling of consumer-producer chains across Europe. SFSCs are a mean for producers to increase their bargaining power and to improve their position within the value chain and for consumers to increase trust, transparency, quality and safety of their food. Political and socio-economic barriers and gaps need to be addressed in order to enhance the scope of consumer-producer chains across Europe and EU4Advice will provide the necessary tools to the relevant stakeholders to overcome them. One key challenge to achieve this goal is to improve national AKIS by implementing new governance models that facilitates the integration of SFSCs advisory services Through a multi-actor approach involving advisors, policy makers, researchers, farmers and consumers, and by implementing a living lab methodology, EU4Advice will create the foundations for the establishment of a network of SFSC-advisors across Europe that will be appropriately structured and connected to a diversity of stakeholders within the national AKIS. The development of networking tools, contents for SFSCs advisors, a tailored dissemination, communication and exploitation strategy, and impact assessment plans will create the appropriate ecosystem for the effective transfer of knowledge among stakeholders in the 27 EU members. Based on previous key related multi-actor projects, EU4Advice will apply the “GAIN transition model” to guide the successful implementation of the multi-actor network through different administrative levels: local, regional, national and European. EU4Advice will establish appropriate channels for collaboration and knowledge exchange among a selected group of multi-actor projects, thematic networks and focus groups at EU level, to ensure a long term impact