Abstract
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 and
documented. 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.
documented. 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Sustainable Value Chains for Sustainable Food Systems : A Workshop of the FAO/UNEP Programme on Sustainable Food Systems. Rome, 8-9 June 2016 |
| Editors | Alexandre Meybeck, Suzanne Redfern |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Place of Publication | Rome |
| Publisher | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Pages | 295-302 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-92-5-109532-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
