Organic Ambitions: Scotland's organic action plan 2016-2020

Appendix i: The consultation and stakeholder groups

This organic action plan is the result of the following work undertaken during the summer of 2015:

• a public online consultation to which over 700 people contributed
• a series of stakeholder meetings with producers and those involved in the supply chain and the natural environment, attended by almost 100 people
• a series of one-to-one interviews conducted on a wide range of farms
• one-to-one interviews during organic sector, and public food and farming events
• feedback from a number of public and non-governmental organisations and commercial bodies

Survey

An online survey collected data and comments from people who identified their primary interest in food being one of the following groups:

1. Farming or growing
2. Eating
3. Food processing
4. Retailing or wholesaling
5. Food service/catering
6. Public procurement of food
7. Policy making concerning food, farming or environment
8. Education
9. Research (projects and funding) concerning food, farming or environment
10. Advisory service concerning food, farming or environment
11. Supplying inputs to the food and farming/horticulture industry (seed merchant, feed merchant, machinery etc.).

Data from this survey are available online at
http://sruc.ac.uk/info/120636/scottish_organic_action_plan

Stakeholder meetings

Stakeholder meetings were held for the following groups:

1. Producers
2. Supply chain
3. Biodiversity and the environment

Reports from each of these meetings are available online at
http://sruc.ac.uk/info/120636/scottish_organic_action_plan