Recommendations Barrier Options for policy and stakeholder actions in: Farm level - Lack of available organic agriculture inputs. - Economic and organizational risk for the farmers. Policy makers - Organizing producers in associations and cooperatives. - Encouraging regional production basins, foremost for milk, cereals, vegetables and beef & meat. - Subsidising for converting and / or maintaining organic agriculture. - Supporting the extension service for new organic farmers. - Supporting the know-how transfer on regional, national, international level. Creation of network. - Making the specific organic inputs and specific technology available and affordable. - Insuring the transparency and the accessibility of the labelling schemes. - Making transparent the commodity prices. - Facilitating the market access and improving the marketing conditions. Education - Teaching and training on organic production, quality management, marketing. - Teaching organic farming in schools and universities. Processing level - Lack of domestic processing. - Lack of domestic supply chains. Supply chain - Encouraging vertical link-up with agriculture on the one side and distribution on the other. - Strategic positioning of processing units in the production centres. - Encouraging cooperation between sectors. Education - Teaching and training about organic food processing, resourcing, quality management and marketing. Industry associations and know-how transfer from conventional to organic. Market intelligence services, market research. - Teaching organic processing in schools and universities. Benchmarking studies. - Teaching organic supply chain management in agricultural schools and in the Faculties of Agriculture in the universities. Consumption level - Lack of domestic consumer demand. Policy makers - Clarifying labelling and certification. Consumers associations - Enhancing trust and knowledge about organic. - Providing online information. Research - Conducting market research. - Conducting consumer research.
