In episode 13we talked about project engineering as a method of implementing territorial food projects.
Recently, Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, announced in the in the columns of Le Télégrammethe launch of the "Startijin Valait" pilot project. The project aims to reinvent the dairy industry by reducing the carbon footprint of milk in Finistère by 30%. Agnès Pannier-Runacher inaugurated the 14 million euro project in Quimper last April.
Arnaud Letailleur, director of Soliance Alimentaire, explains this institutional initiative, designed as a territorial demonstrator of the food transition. The government, which has launched calls for projects, is demonstrating its ambition to support collective projects in its territories. The "Startijin Valait" project, designed for the dairy industryis a concrete example of implementation through project engineering.
Project engineering is the process of applying tools and resources to the development of territorial projects. To find out more, we invite you to listen to podcast n°13 on project engineering.
The success of these territorial projects depends on 4 key elements:
The Finistère dairy industry project therefore ticks all the boxes in terms of the innovations needed for a successful food transition.
Territorial projects can be seen as "innovation drivers" to meet environmental and competitiveness challenges. In the context of "Startijin Valait", innovations aimed at achieving neutrality by reducing methane emissions or storing carbon could be of several kinds, such as :
To date, we are not in a position to state that the project will contain these measures, as it is currently in the study phase. Everything therefore remains to be done, and we need to mobilize all the necessary resources to move from the study phase to implementation.
Unlike businesses, which need to make a quick profit, territorial projects are long-term in nature, as they aim to set territories on the path to transition. That's why the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty, and other public players, must support these initiatives, because they "deristify" the project by financing its initial stages.
Public funding for "Startijin Valait" amounts to 14 million euros. The next stages will require further investment, to which private players will have to contribute. The operational roadmap extends over 10 years, well beyond the usual investment cycles of companies (3 to 5 years).
"As I often say, the advice that creates value is the advice that goes beyond paper," says Arnaud Letailleur.
At Soliance Alimentaire, our approach goes beyond consulting, as we are committed to the co-construction of projects.
Co-construction involves an approach that extends from the feasibility study right through to the actual implementation of the project. This means working on the set-up of the initiative, identifying the right partners, and working with them to bring these programs to fruition.
Our aim is to support these initiatives over the long term, to ensure that they are technically, financially and economically viable.
In the future, our "operational" role could be accompanied by an "investor" role, who knows? For the time being, our aim is to support our territories in the implementation of their food and agricultural programs through a project engineering approach.
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