%A Urs Niggli %A Carlo Leifert %T Improving quality and safety and maximizing benefits to consumers and producers %X 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. %D 2006 %L orgprints6244