TY - CONF ID - orgprints6244 UR - http://orgprints.org/6244/ A1 - Niggli, Urs A1 - Leifert, Carlo TI - Improving quality and safety and maximizing benefits to consumers and producers Y1 - 2006/// N2 - Abstract - Improving the quality and safety and re-duction in cost in the European organic and ?low in-put? food supply chains (QLIF) is an Integrated Pro-ject under the 6th Framework Programme of the Euro-pean Commission which started in March 2004. After a two year period of research activities of the 31 partners, first preliminary results are available and will be presented during this congress. In our intro-ductory paper we try to develop an overall view on how the many work packages will strengthen the system approach of organic and ?low input? agricul-ture. AV - restricted ER -