Organic Farming Issues - General

• NEW!! Is organic food worth the price?
• NEW!! The Browning of the Green Revolution
• The ethics of organic farming (Toronto Star)
• Synthetic nitrogen fertilizers deplete soil nitrogen: A global dilemma for sustainable cereal production December 2009
• Are we already dining on clones? (Montreal Gazette, Sept 6'08)
• Aiding Health Care Is Next Opportunity for Agriculture Sector - A Conference Hears There's A Need to Steamline Regulations if Canada is to Lead the World in the Area
• American Consumers Hungry for Organic Beef
• Avian Influenza, Biosecurity and Organic Poultry Production
• Bee colony collapse disorder is ag threat
• Can Organic Farming "Feed the World"?
• Can organic farming feed us all? (Organic Trade Association)
• Challenges Facing a Second Green Revolution: Expanding the Reach of Organic Agriculture
  • From Organic Agriculture: Innovations in Organic Marketing, Technology, and Research Symposium Proceedings (USA)
• Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in Canada:Do we have a problem?
  • Canadian Honey Council magazine, Hivelights 20(2):15-18
• Consumer Preferences For and Attitude Towards Organic Foods
• Denmark Will Reimburse Farmers Who Suffer Genetic Pollution from Genetically Engineered Crops
• Ethiopia Goes Organic
• European Action Plan for Organic Farming
• FAO issues report calling for new thinking on avian flu poultry risks - Big confinement operations may not be safer
• "The Great Revival of Public Markets" (USA)
  • Project for Public Spaces (PPS) article stating "America's future may be small vendors as much as big boxes"
• Hungry for an Alternative
  • Article by Sally Hall for the London Independent
• IFOAM, UNCTAD and FAO Launch Tools for Uniting the Organic World
• Italian Law Calls for All Organic Foods in Nation's Schools
• Mega-consumers are Critical to an Environmentally Sustainable Future
• Municipal Activism: Momentary or the Beginning of a Trend?
• No nano in organic foods, says Soil Association
• On-farm energy use (PDF) (USA)
• Organic agriculture and the global food supply
• Organic Agriculture Can Help Stabilize Global Climate Change
• Organic Farming Sequesters Atmospheric Carbon and Nutrients in Soils
  • Executive Summary by Paul Hepperly, The New Farm® Research Manager, The Rodale Institute®
• Organic from niche to mainstream: Stats Canada Study
  • Evolution in the organic farming sector between 2001 and 2006
• Organic Works: Providing more jobs through organic farming and local food supply (Soil Association, January 2009)
• The Organic Green Revolution - Rodale Institute 2008 (PDF, 392 kb)
• Organic Learning Curve Costs More
• Organic Production Works
  • Report by the Institute for Science in Society (ISIS)
• Organic Success a Doubled-edged Sword
  • CBC editorial by farm journalist Norman Dunn
• Precaution, not panic, needed to deal with bird flu
  • Press release from a coalition of agriculture and food organizations in British Columbia, November 28, 2005
• Putting Meat on The Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America (PEW Commission, USA 2008)
• A Rancher Argues that Industrial Agriculture Imperils Skilled Farmers
  • Article by Jim Scharplaz of the Prairies Writers Circle
• Regenerative Organic Farming: A Solution to Global Warming 2008 (PDF, 4.2 MB) (Rodale)
• Study yields mixed findings about microbes on organic produce
  • Report by the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy
• Study: Urban Consumption of Prime Agricultural Land in Canada1951 to 2001
  • Statistics Canada report
• Sustainable (Organic) Agriculture and Alternative Marketing as Alternatives to Globalization
  • By Rebecca Eisses
• Search for Success in Agriculture
  • Report by George Morris Centre
• Ten Reasons to Eat Organic
  • From the UK's Soil Association
• U.S. Organic Farmers Feeling the Squeeze at Both Ends
• The 'Wal-Mart-ization' of Agriculture
  • Article by industry consultant Jerry Bouma
• Time to Rediscover Our Place in Nature
  • by David Suzuki
• Water crunch looms as big worry
• Women Find Their Place in the Field
  • By Julia Moskin, New York Times, June 1, 2005
    
    

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