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Innovations within the organic food sector – basis for novel business relations between agricultural and processing enterprises
Innovations within the processing sector may stimulate new, and extend and stabilize existing business relations with agricultural enterprises along the market chain. Due to their regional focus, small and medium-sized businesses in organic food production are eminently dependent on collaboration. On the basis of the evaluation of 140 applications for the Innovation Contest, this paper demonstrates how new and sustainable revenues can be built up by entering economic collaborations with innovative businesses of the processing sector
Wachsen mit den Werten: Wertewandel im Ökolandbau – ein Ländervergleich
The enormous growth of the organic branche in Germany and its European neighbouring
countries has led to far reaching structural changes. The large demand for organically
produced goods has led to mass production, monopolisation and long-distance
transports. Some producers, suppliers and consumers fear that the eco-social ideas
and ethical values, which are inseparably connected to organic agriculture, might be
overrun by these developments. The following essay illustrates the shift of values
within the organic branche in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The authors point out
the different strategies of the three countries in order to meet these challenges and
make an argument for a self-confident return to basic values and normative statements
of the organic food movement