The group's mandate is twofold: Firstly, to contribute to raising the resilience, sustainability and innovation capacity of SMEs in the sector and secondly, to match the EC policies in the Agri-Food sector with the ecosystem‘s real interests and needs.
The Agri-Food industry is the largest manufacturing sector in Europe, with more than 16 million people employed in almost 600,000 firms, 99.4% of which are SMEs. Thus, SMEs are the backbone of the Agri-Food ecosystem. 99% of food and drink enterprises are SMEs, representing 60% of employment and 78% of SMEs in the food and drink sector are micro enterprises. On average, food retailers are predominantly SMEs, but with important differences across EU member states.
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