Regional Knowledge Platform on One Country One Priority Product (OCOP) in Asia and the Pacific

This section serves as a knowledge hub with curated publications and other materials or tools on technological, social-economic, policy, financial and institutional innovations for Special Agricultural Products (SAPs). 

Organised with a food systems approach, the resources section contains publications and tools covering the full spectrum of the value chain of SAPs including: 

Production →Post-harvest →Processing → Marketing→ Consumption

Strengthening sustainable food systems through geographical indications
01/2018

This study seeks to provide empirical evidence on the economic impacts that are generated through the Geographical Indication (GI) process beginning with the official recognition of a GI and the steps that follow. It focuses on the food sector and reviews nine cases, offering a variety of national contexts and local value chains

Identification of origin-linked products and their potential for development
01/2012

As part of FAO’s Quality&Origin Programme, the present study proposes a methodological participatory approach to identifying products of origin‐linked quality to be used as levers for sustainable rural development, through the virtuous circle to which they could give rise (FAO and SINER‐GI, 2009)

Linking people, places and products
10/2010

Promoting the links between people, places, and agrifood products can be a tool for sustainable rural development in many rural communities of the world. In fact, origin-linked products show quality attributes linked to the geographical places and people as a result of specific local know how and natural resources, and over time, a collective reputation is being built, that is identified by a geographical indication (GI).