creators_name: Monteny, Arjan creators_name: Noorduyn, Leonore type: workpaper datestamp: 2006-02-14 lastmod: 2009-08-20 14:30:09 metadata_visibility: show title: Sales higher thanks to efficient organic chains ispublished: unpub subjects: 2security subjects: 7food subjects: 5markets subjects: chainmanagement subjects: 3recycling full_text_status: public keywords: Organic Chains, co-innovation programme, knowledge abstract: The challenge that the organic sector faces is clear; it needs to grow. But it needs to do so in a balanced fashion, whereby what the producer supplies exactly matches consumer demand. We have to know what the consumer wants and when, and producers have to be willing to adjust their production accordingly. Additionally, new chain structures are required that can supply products efficiently at a low cost price, and with sufficient attention to quality and food safety. These are precisely the aspects that were focused on in the 28 projects of the Dutch co-innovation programme ‘Professionalizing organic sales chains’, which ran from 2001 through 2005. date: 2005-09 date_type: published institution: Stichting Agro Keten Kennis refereed: never citation: Monteny, Ir. Arjan and Noorduyn, Ir. Leonore (2005) Sales higher thanks to efficient organic chains. Working paper, Stichting Agro Keten Kennis. [ Unpublished, ] document_url: http://orgprints.org/7132/1/English_article_co-innovation.pdf