Healthy Growth of Value Based Organic Food Chains: Management, value communication and perspectives of growing values-based food chains

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Our working group discussed hampering and enabling factors for the management of increasing quantities of organic food produce. Andrea Borec from Maribor University presented the main idea of the Core Organic II Project HealthyGrowth. Susanne von Münchhausen from Eberswalde University, Germany, showed first results of the case study analysis in respect to management issues during expansion. During the discussion, the workshop focused on the development of two Slovenian farmers’ cooperatives. Representatives from the Ekodar label for organic beef and from Planika Dairy highlighted business strategies and the specific challenges the businesses were and are currently facing.