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Abstract
There is no single 'best way' of policy development. Bottom-up approaches to
policy design and a broad debate among stakeholders facilitate policy learning and
innovation. A novel approach of a bottom-up policy design process involving
stakeholders is introduced. First results obtained by this methodology are presented. The
outcomes of a large international effort for a development of policies for organic food
and farming in Mai 2004 in Europe are analyzed: the synthesized results from 11
European countries (AT, CH, CZ, DE, DK, EE, GB, HU, IT, PL, SI) on the current
situation of policies related to the organic food market in Europe are highlighted and
policy recommendations for the development of the organic food and farming sector
formulated. Specifically, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of policies
related to organic food market are identified and policy instruments to address these
aspects are developed.