Archive for the 'Organic' Category
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Last year an article in the Economist pointed out some of the complexities and contradictions within the organic, Fair Trade, local food movement. The article is well written and provocative, but is it accurate? My attention was particularly drawn to statements made my Norman Borlaug, father of the Green [...]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Recently, the Cornucopia Institute has issued a white paper on Wal-Mart's entry into the organic marketplace. The paper accuses the retail behemoth of undercutting the true meaning of the organic label. The charges focus on Wal-Mart's penchant for industrial producers, which has carried over in their attempt to [...]
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Friday, September 8th, 2006
For the past two years I've been having this problem with my squash. I'm not a plant pathologist, though I have had some success identifying diseases and insects based on past experience and lots of google searches.
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Posted in Microfarm, Organic, Politics | 3 Comments »
Monday, May 1st, 2006
The world is waking up to the promise of organic. Yes, the statistics are quoted quite often: an annual growth rate of 20%, and anticipated market of $30.7 billion by 2007 in the United States alone. Organic is the fastest growing segment of the world food economy.
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Posted in Bolivia, Development, Organic | 2 Comments »
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
As Rudolf Steiner argued so many decades ago, the 20th century shift towards input intensive agriculture was, and is, troubling in so many ways. According to Steiner, heavy investments in external inputs, like fertilizers and pesticides, are the symptoms of a sick farm system. Just as human beings rely [...]
Posted in Appropriate Technology, Development, Environment, Organic | 1 Comment »
