Values Based Supply Chains as a Tool for Territorial Development

Summary

Recently established organic regions aim to be model regions of sustainability. This paper focuses on the role and configurations of values based supply chains for the territorial development of organic regions. Three different case studies of organic regions in Italy, France and Austria are investi-gated. Principles of organic farming according to the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movement and the concept of neo-endogenous development by Christopher Ray serve as frame-work for analyzes. Finally, we include values-based supply chains into the model of neo-endogenous development: first to link values on a territorial level and second as a tool to imple-ment them.