Learning from the organic food system as a model for sustainable food systems - the Organic Food System Program

TY - GEN

T1 - Learning from the organic food system as a model for sustainable food systems - the Organic Food System Program

AU - Kahl, Johannes

AU - Strassner, Carola

AU - Hertwig, Jostein

AU - Gould, David

AU - Bügel, Susanne Gjedsted

AU - Paoletti, Flavio

AU - Lairon, Denis

N1 - CURIS 2016 NEXS 368

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Today’s understanding of food systems includes product-specific values (e.g. palatability, taste, nutritional and safety values, health promotion) and process-oriented values (e.g. environmental impact, animal welfare and social fairness). These values are currently challenged and changing. Food habits, cultural, social, ethical, economic and political criteria play an increasingly important role as values. An organic values-based supply chain links food production to values such as partnership, cooperation and trust. Within a values-based supply chain, all actors should be connected through a shared vision. Visions, indicators and parameters have been developed for the organic food system (OFS). In order to identify and leverage values within the OFS, it has to be critically analysed anddocumented. This makes the OFS a “living laboratory” for sustainable food systems, linking organic production and consumption within one system, thus creating and distributing value along the chains for sustainable food systems.

AB - Today’s understanding of food systems includes product-specific values (e.g. palatability, taste, nutritional and safety values, health promotion) and process-oriented values (e.g. environmental impact, animal welfare and social fairness). These values are currently challenged and changing. Food habits, cultural, social, ethical, economic and political criteria play an increasingly important role as values. An organic values-based supply chain links food production to values such as partnership, cooperation and trust. Within a values-based supply chain, all actors should be connected through a shared vision. Visions, indicators and parameters have been developed for the organic food system (OFS). In order to identify and leverage values within the OFS, it has to be critically analysed anddocumented. This makes the OFS a “living laboratory” for sustainable food systems, linking organic production and consumption within one system, thus creating and distributing value along the chains for sustainable food systems.

M3 - Report chapter

SP - 295

EP - 302

BT - Sustainable Value Chains for Sustainable Food Systems

A2 - Meybeck, Alexandre

A2 - Redfern, Suzanne

PB - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

CY - Rome

ER -