LOCAL FOOD POLICIES IN ALBANIA: SUSTAINABLE SHORT VALUE CHAINS AND FARMER’S MARKET

About this project

The project’s overall objective aims at increasing the access’ opportunities to healthy, nutritious and local food, in coherence with OSS 2 - End hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, by impacting on the food insecurity of the population (OSS 2. 1.2) and the rate of undernourishment (OSS 2.1.1), which is particularly high in Albania. The project partnership reflects the requirements of the call for proposals and is mainly based on collaboration between the local authorities of the two countries (Metropolitan City of Bari and Municipality of Tirana), with the support of relevant Italian and Albanian organizations (Food Bank Albania, World Farmer Market and Banco Alimentare Onlus) and CIHEAM Bari To achieve the overall objective (Marker - Nutrition), the project intends to strengthen the role of farmers, favouring local and sustainable production, increasing the direct supply of products (short supply chain), favouring lower consumer ‘s prices and higher producers. ’Earnings. This will have a direct consequence on increasing the average income of small-scale local producers (specific objective), consistent with OSS target 2.3.2 - Increasing the average income of small-scale food producers ‘and with MUFPP Indicator 32 - Percentage of local/regional food producers selling their products at the city's public markets. The objectives will contribute to the development of the Tirana ‘s Food Policies defined by a participatory process i…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 2Zero Hunger

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Albania

Sectors

Agricultural co-operativesFood security policy and administrative managementFood safety and quality

Focus

Nutrition · Also contributesEnvironment · Also contributesGood governance · Main focus

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

CITTÀ METROPOLITANA DI BARI

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 23 Jan 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013244-02-2.

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