Local food supply in Slovenia has decreased in last decades extensively, that is why the main aim of our national expert meeting was to identify the reasons for low local food supply and to elaborate on the meaning of localy produced food for socio-economic and health sphere as well as brainstorm on the ways of its distribution to slovenian consumer in order to provide benchmarking analysis and recommendations. Local food supply is an important strategic focal point of every country, as consumers on one hand are expressing steeper intrest in quality, safe and healthy food, and on the other that kind of supply provides also national safety in the case of economic crisis. In our meeting special attention was dedicated to innovative-marketing approaches and examples of good local food supply practice.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 17844710The presentation of the Workshop was given by Miha Uhan from the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, who presented the model of local self-sufficiency with food in Slovenia. At the outset, the area of local food supply was marked as a true national interest due to the fact that it meets the four groups of social goals. This was followed by worrying facts on Slovenian agriculture. A connection to the Porter's model of generic strategies was established. The designing of the commercially attractive and economically sustainable model of local food supply in Slovenia was later marked as the major problem of Slovenian agriculture. This model should enable, through structural reforms, economies of scale, and active employment policies, to raise the quality and continuity of production, reduce the spread of food growers, and reduce the price of agricultural products. This way, the entry of Slovenian farmers into the existing retail chains or creation of new ones would be enabled.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 20314342We focused our attention as part of our project activities on the possibilities of improving the food self-sufficiency in Slovenia with the interested major stakeholders involved in local food supply: Mr Marjan Dvornik, Secretary, Ministry of agriculture, forestry and food; Mr Vladimir Stanič, director, Kalček, d.o.o.; dr. Irena Fonda, director, Fonda.SI, d.o.o.; Mr Boštjan Kozole, director, EVROSAD, Ltd; Mr Roman Mavec, head of the orchard, Agricultural Institute of Slovenia, Department of Pomology and Viticulture; Mr Gregor Hribar, director, Čarna Ltd.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 20679142