Road map on sustainable culinary criteria
MEDFEST project develops a set of tools in order to assess the sustainability of existing or planned MED culinary heritage experiences. The Road map on sustainable culinary criteria is an Excel based tool elaborated to assess the sustainability of the culinary experiences. It aims to give a global and synthetic view of the strengths and weaknesses of each culinary experience through a system of automatic calculation (matrix "+" and "-") elaborated from the indicator values.
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The tool was used, among others, in the development of the Portuguese culinary experience "WHERE IS IT? THE BEST OF MEDITERRANEAN". ‘In loco Association’ identified and evaluated a great number of sustainable gastronomic tourism experiences, compiled from the Mediterranean in a database with a common theme. The aim of this initiative was to promote sustainable gastronomic experiences at national and regional level based on Mediterranean gastronomy and to give opportunities and greater visibility to the gastronomic experiences that exist in the Algarve.
Replicability conditions
The tool is intended to be used by local stakeholders who are willing to check the sustainability of the initiatives they lead. The project provides them with a ready to use excel file and full information about criteria and indicators used.