D4.2: Report on agroBRIDGES Toolbox Validation

agroBRIDGES aims to build bridges between producers and consumers, empowering farmers with practical knowledge and support to rebalance their market position via new business and marketing models based on Short Food Supply Chains (SFSCs). To this end, agroBRIDGES has developed an innovative multi-actor framework, bringing together a wide range of agri-food stakeholders and practical support tools to better connect producers and consumers. The project will foster sustainable business and marketing models based on SFSCs with fewer intermediaries and an improved market position for local producers. As a step forward from traditional support tools that rely mainly on facilitating communication and event organisation, the novelty of agroBRIDGES is based on implementing meaningful ICT-based tools and resources for producers that can be easily used in practice to set up and run SFSCs. The tools have been developed for different user groups such as producers, consumers, public bodies, the local agri-food industry, and distributors. The agroBRIDGES Toolbox includes IT type tools, communication tools, training programme type tools and event related tools as follows.