http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/olq/files/generaldoc/4-FAO-presentation3.pdf Présentation de certaines activités du programme (in French)

1. Origin-linked Quality: a tool for sustainable
Development? Morocco, Brazil and Guinea present their
experience
Publications and projects developed
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2. Technical cooperation projets
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Country Dates Purpose
Morocco 2008-2010
Support for the development and implementation of a recognition system for specific quality signs and
origin-linked labels
Morocco 2008-2011 Optimization of Taliouine saffron with a specific quality sign
Tunisia 2008-2010 Support for the development and implementation of a control system for origin-linked products
Tunisia 2008-2010 Development of a national strategy: “Promotion of the strategy to optimize quality products”
Lebanon 2009 Evaluation for development of an origin-linked quality strategy for the labneh value chain
Bhutan 2009-2010 Establishment of a national strategy for the development of quality signs, focus on yak products
Argentina, Brasil,
Chile, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, Peru
2010-2012
Support for optimization of products of origin-linked quality through capacity-building at national and
regional levels and support for a pilot case in each country
Ukraine 2010 Assessment of the potential of products of origin-linked quality in Ukraine
Mexico 2010 Local evaluation for the development of a specific standard for Cotija cheese
Croatia 2009-2012
Support for the development of products of origin-linked quality to strengthen links among stakeholders
in the value chain and between public and private sectors
Mali 2009-.. Support for the identification of characteristics and qualification of the Dogon Plateau shallot
Guinea- Bissau, Mali,
Senegal Sierra Leone
2009-..
Identification of terroir products in the four countries and development of an optimization process with
the NGO Slow Food International
Guinea 2012
Inventory of products of origin-linked quality in the Kindia region and support for establishment of
specifications
Cambodia, Laos,
Thailand, Vietnam
2012-1015 Support for establishment of GIs at the regional and national levels

4. Regional seminars
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5. CASE STUDIES
Some 23, in
relation with regional seminars
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GUIDE
Linking people, places and products:
a guide for promoting quality linked
to geographical origin and
sustainable geographical indications
2009, 2010
METHODOLOGY
Identification of origin-linked products
and their potential for development.
A methodology for participatory
inventories, 2012

6. GUIDE
Linking people, places and
products.
A guide for promoting quality linked to
geographical origin and sustainable GIs
Linking People, Places and Products:
a guide for promoting quality linked to
geographical origin and sustainable
geographical indications
Published in Chinese, English, French, and
Spanish; shortly to be available in Croat,
Portuguese and Serbian

7. Case studies
1. Queso Turrialba, Costa Rica.
2. Café de Colombia
3. Cacao Chuao, Venezuela
4. Limón de Pica. Chile.
5. Chivito criollo del Norte Neuquino, Argentina
6. Queso Cotija, México.
7. Cacao Arriba. Ecuador.
8. Maíz Blanco Gigante de Cuzco, Peru.
9. Kampong Speu Palm sugar, Cambodia.
10. Tea Darjeeling, India
11. Kintamani Bali coffee, Indonesia
12. Uvs sea buckthorn Mongolia
13. Jinhua Ham, China
14. Saffran de Taliouine, Maroc
15. Chestnut of Troploje, Albanie
16. Ham of Uzice -Užićka Goveća Pršuta, Serbia.
17. Livno Cheese - Bosnia and Herzegovina.
18. Bean of Tetovo - Tetovski Krav, FYROM
19. Thé du Rwanda
20. Riz de Kovié, Togo
21. Violet de Galmi, Niger
22. Miel de Casamance, Sénégal
23. Echalote du Pays Dogon, Mali

8. Methodology of identification and inventory
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9. Web tool on identification
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12. All available on line:
www. foodquality-origin.org