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Latest Organic Science News
- 04/25/08 - Overhaul of Agriculture Systems Needed
- 04/10/08 - ALERT: Have You Been Misled by False "Organic" or "Natural" Personal Care Product Labeling-- Please Share Your Story Here
- 04/03/08 - Study Finds Chemical in Natural Personal Care Products
- 03/28/08 - Caving to Industry, FDA Refuses to Ban Widely Used Carcinogen Found in Sunscreen & Other Personal Care Products
- 03/20/08 - New Evidence Settles a Lingering Question - Is Organic Food More Nutritious?
- 03/17/08 - View List of Leading Personal Care Products Found to Contain Possible Carcinogen 1,4-Dioxane
- 02/01/08 - Salmonella Levels Over 5x Higher in Factory Farm Eggs than Organic
- 01/01/08 - Breaking Organic Scandal in the UK: Thousands of Tons of Organic Food Produced Using Toxic Chemicals
- 12/05/07 - A Fishy Definition of Organic
- 11/28/07 - ALERT: USDA Proposes Rule Undermining Organics and Small Farms
Resources & Websites
- Environmental Working Group Farm Subsidies Database
- State Organic Farming Associations & Networks
- National & International Organic Farming Associations
- Organic Gardening Resources
- National NGOs with Great Resources on GE Crops and Food
- The Organic Insider Highly recommended Newsletter
- Mother Earth News
- Local Harvest Find family farms, farmers markets and other sustainably grown agricultural products
- Organic Volunteers Educational exchanges in sustainability in the US
- OFRF Organic Farming Research Foundation
- RAFI USA - Rural Advancement Foundation
- Noah's Ark Organic Farmer
- Biodynamic Association of America
UK - Europe
International
- Organic Trade Services
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)
- Organic Agriculture at FAO (Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Important Books
Sustainable
Agriculture and Resistance
Transforming Food Production in Cuba includes the contribution of thirty-two of Cuba's leading agriculture researchers, plus three American experts on Cuba agriculture, including Dr. Peter Rosset, the co-director of Food First. It also includes a prologue by Professor Miguel Altieri of the University of California at Berkeley, and an epilog by Professor Richard Levins of Harvard University.
New
Organic Grower
by Eliot Coleman
"A master gardener and farmer describes the simplest and most sustainable
ways to grow top-quality organic vegetables. Includes practical information
on marketing
the harvest, small-scale equipment and gardening and farming for the
long-term health of the soil."
Gardening
for the
Future of the Earth
by Howard-Yana Shapiro, Ph.D., Agricultural Director at Seeds of Change, and John Harrisson
Good Growing: Why Organic Farming Works
University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Action Alert: Call for an Immediate Moratorium on U.S. incentives for agrofuel
More than a hundred U.S. based and international organizations, including the Organic Consumers Association, are calling for a moratorium on government subsidies for industrial-scale monoculture agrofuels. While billions of dollars in subsidies for corn, soy and palm oil-based agrofuels, like ethanol and biodiesel, certainly result in higher profits for corporate giants such as Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill, and Monsanto, their overall contribution to reducing greenhouse gases is negligible.
In addition millions of acres of carbon sequestering tropical rainforest and wetlands in the Amazon and Asia are being destroyed in order to make way for soy and palm oil plantations. Government support for agrofuels in the U.S., basically subsidies for genetically engineered corn and soybeans, are already costing taxpayers billions of dollars.
Learn more and sign the Agrofuel Moratorium Petition today!
Latest Farm News Headlines
- 05/09/08 - Lawsuit: Del Monte Ripping Off Migrant Workers
- 05/08/08 - Beware -- Food Crisis Getting Worse
- 05/08/08 - Honeybee Hives in U.S. Seeing Continued Decline, Survey Says
- 05/08/08 - Grist Magazine on Soil Health
- 05/08/08 - Farmland is Vastly Overpriced--The Next Mortgage Boom & Bust Will Devastate Rural America
- 05/08/08 - New Food Safety Rules May Do More Harm Than Good
- 05/08/08 - Burger King Caught Spying on Student Farmworker Activists in Florida
- 05/08/08 - The Monopoly of the Food Supply: Price Inflammation and One Corporation's Allergy to Labels
- 05/08/08 - Bush Hammered Over Comments About India and Global Food Crisis
- 05/08/08 - Even Wall Street Admits Real Solution to World Food Crisis is Helping Poor Farmers Sustainably Grow More Food
- 05/08/08 - Latest Media Coverage & Congressional Debate on the Biofuels Hoax & World Food Crisis
- 05/07/08 - Urban Farmers' Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market
- 05/07/08 - New Generation of Farmers and Farmers Markets in California
- 05/07/08 - Risk of Bird Flu Pandemic Probably Growing
- 05/07/08 - Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming
- 05/06/08 - Biofuels: Disaster for Food, People & The Planet--Short You Tube Video
- 05/06/08 - Support N.C. Farmworkers
- 05/05/08 - Farm Bill: Billions for Corporate Agribusiness with Nickles & Dimes for Organics
- 05/05/08 - Giant Food & Biotech Corporations Make Billions in Profit from Growing Global Food Crisis
- 05/05/08 - Air Pollution Impedes Bees' Ability to Find Flowers
- 05/05/08 - Chickens Adopting Urban Lifestyle
- 05/05/08 - Grist on Lead and Gardens
- 05/04/08 - Organic Trade Association is More Than Satisfied with Farm Bill Conference Deal
- 05/03/08 - The New Green/Biotech Revolution And World Food Prices
- 05/03/08 - Study Links Parkinson's Disease With Chemical Exposure to Pesticides
- 05/03/08 - Deadly Animal Virus May Soon Come to U.S. Mainland
- 05/03/08 - White House Scrambles to Keep Up with Global Food Crisis--Still Claiming Gene-Altered Crops Will Feed the World
- 05/02/08 - Losing the Forest for the Trees: Tree Monocultures and the Biofuel Boom
- 05/02/08 - Biotech & Agrofuels in Latin America; Next-Generation Biofuels
- 05/01/08 - 'Small Wind' Power Plants Are Blowing Strong
- 05/01/08 - Taking the Fire Out of Farming in Africa
- 05/01/08 - To Save Rivers, She Helps Farmers
- 05/01/08 - Grain Companies' Profits Soar As Global Food Crisis Mounts
- 05/01/08 - Critics Fault Industry's Influence
- 05/01/08 - Farm Animal Industry Must Change, Says Pew Commission
- 05/01/08 - Report Targets Costs Of Factory Farming
- 04/30/08 - Latest Developments on Farm Bill & Biofuels
- 04/30/08 - Emptying the Breadbasket
- 04/30/08 - New Report Spells Out the Critical Health Risk in Adding Human Antibiotics to Animal Feed in U.S. Farms
- 04/30/08 - UN: Biofuel Production 'Criminal Path' to Global Food Crisis
- 04/29/08 - There is No Food Shortage: A Gap Between Rich and Poor Makes Free Markets Fail
- 04/29/08 - What is the Real Cause of Agflation--Rapidly Rising Food Prices?
- 04/29/08 - More Media Coverage of World Food Crisis & Biofuels
- 04/29/08 - NGO: Gov'ts Ignored Food Crisis Warnings for Years
- 04/29/08 - Burger King Exec Uses Daughter's Online ID To Chide Immokalee Coalition
- 04/29/08 - The Future of Dirt
- 04/28/08 - Making a Killing from the Food Crisis
- 04/28/08 - The Real Crisis of Argentina's Agricultural Sector
- 04/27/08 - 'Agflation' The Escalating Costs of Food
- 04/27/08 - Negotiators Reach Tentative Farm Bill Deal
- 04/26/08 - The World Food Crisis
- 04/25/08 - Saving the Honeybee Through Organic Farming
- 04/25/08 - Environmental Costs of Shipping Groceries Around the World
- 04/25/08 - Overhaul of Agriculture Systems Needed
- 04/25/08 - Union of Concerned Scientists: Confined Animal Feeding Operations Cost Taxpayers Billions, New Report Finds
More Farm News Headlines>>
National Organic Farming Associations
- The New Farm
- ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- AgWeb: The Ultimate Agricultural Research Directory
- Resource Guide to Organic & Sustainable Vegetable Production
- Acres USA
- ACORN - The Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network ACORN is run by organic farmers in Atlantic Canada and it's membership includes all certified organic farmers in Atlantic Canada. Affiliates with the Canadian Organic Growers. Site features a searchable public database for organic products.
- Ecological Farming Association
- Organic Farming Research Foundation
- Northeast Organic Farming Association
- Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
- Oregon Tilth, Inc.
- California Certified Organic Farmers
- Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
- Organic Agriculture Center of Canada
- Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association
- Ecological Agriculture Projects
- Cyber-Help for Organic Farmers: Rural Capacity Building Through Organic Agriculture
- InfoBasket (British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Fisheries)
- Missouri Alternatives Center (MAC) Link List
- Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service
- Organic Ag Info/Organic Ag Consortium
- Organic e-Prints
Organic Farming Associations and Networks by State
- Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network
- California Certified Organic Farmers
- CAFF Community Alliance with Family Farmers
- Colorado Organic Producers Association
- Connecticut NOFA
- Florida Certified Organic Growers & Consumers
- Georgia Organics
- Hawaii Organic Farming Association
- Hoosier Organic Marketing Education
- Louisiana Organic Association
- Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association
- Maryland Certified Growers Co-operative
- NOFA/Massachusetts
- Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance
- Organic Growers of Michigan
- Minnesota Organic Farmers' Information Exchange
- The Land Stewardship Project
- The Alliance for Sustainability - MN
- Missouri Organic Association
- Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society
- NOFA/New Hampshire
- NOFA/New Jersey
- NOFA/New York
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association
- Ohio Ecological Food & Farm Association
- The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
- Pennsylvania Certified Organic
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
- NOFA/Rhode Island
- Texas Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association
- NOFA Vermont
- Virginia Association for Biological Farming
- Seattle Tilth