A Systematic Review of EU-Funded Innovative Agri-Food Projects: Potential for Transfer between Territories Ibáñez Jiménez, Álvaro Julián Jiménez Olivencia, Yolanda Mesa Pedrazas, Ángela Porcel Rodríguez, Laura Agricultural networks food Short supply chain Agrobiodiversity Transfer of knowledge Systematic review This research is part of the project "Thematic Center on Mountain Ecosystem & Remote sensing, Deep learning-AI e-Services University of Granada-Sierra Nevada" (LifeWatch-2019-10UGR-01), which has been co-funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation through the FEDER funds from the Spanish Pluriregional Operational Program 2014-2020 (POPE), LifeWatch-ERIC action line. The project has also been co-financed by the Provincial Council of Granada. This article presents a systematic review of innovative projects funded by EU Rural Development Programs that were designed and implemented in rural areas of the European Union to facilitate the territorialized production of foodstuffs and their sale through alternative networks. On the basis of the results obtained in this review, we designed a model for the transfer of knowledge to the local community in the Alpujarra Granadina (Granada, Spain) within the framework of the LifeWatch project. This study uses two consecutive methodological approaches. We began by developing a protocol for the systematic search and analysis of successful rural development projects carried out in the European Union between 2007 and 2020. After that, we created a model for the transfer of results using a participative methodological approach. The results of our analysis of the group of projects selected for review show that the main innovations were made in different aspects of the product, process, sales and distribution. These innovative ideas were implemented by rural communities with a high degree of collective initiative and intelligence and could potentially be replicated in other areas. The sample analyzed contains a wide array of novel, alternative formulas, which are transversal to the projects, so provide significant contents that could be used to activate a space for participation and debate, which could itself become fertile ground for the creation of new projects. In conclusion, this study provides the stakeholders in rural areas, in particular farmers, with a wide, systematically organized knowledge base that proposes solutions to shared challenges. 2022-05-10T08:37:35Z 2022-05-10T08:37:35Z 2022-04-03 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Ibáñez-Jiménez, Á... [et al.]. A Systematic Review of EU-Funded Innovative Agri-Food Projects: Potential for Transfer between Territories. Land 2022, 11, 519. [https://doi.org/10.3390/land11040519] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/74775 10.3390/land11040519 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI