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Latest Organic Science News
- 11/12/08 - President-Elect Obama: Please Support Organic Food & Farming
- 10/15/08 - Whole Foods: Can You Hear Me Now? Organic & Natural Mean Workers Rights and Fair Trade
- 10/15/08 - Whole Foods: Listen to Organic Consumers--No Sweatshop Natural Beef!
- 09/03/08 - Escalating Oil Prices Mean Organic Food Will Soon Be Cheaper than Chemical & Energy Intensive Industrial Food
- 08/27/08 - 09.27.08 Green Jobs Now!
- 08/15/08 - Skin Creams Seen to Cause Tumours on Mice
- 08/05/08 - Breaking News & Alert: USDA Report Out Today Says Organic Fraud on the Rise --- Organic Certifiers Fail --Sign Petition
- 07/26/08 - Overview of the U.S. Food Crisis - Report from the Food Panel at the Netroots Nation Conference
- 07/01/08 - An Impossible Coexistence: Transgenic and Organic Agriculture
- 06/27/08 - Grass-Fed Cows May Make Better Milk
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
- Food System Creators Cafe Connect, Collaborate, Communicate: Creating the Future Food System
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
- 11/20/08 - Obama's Reported First Choice to Head USDA, Tom Vilsack, Responds to His Critics & OCA Responds
- 11/20/08 - Tell Obama: NO to Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture
- 11/20/08 - Summary of Recent Recommended Articles on Food & Farming By Food First
- 11/20/08 - The Fight to Pass the Employee Free Choice Act
- 11/19/08 - The Animals and Plants We Cannot Live Without
- 11/17/08 - The Future of Food in an Obama Administration
- 11/14/08 - Don Tyson Details Plans to Export the U.S. Meat Model of CAFOs to Global South
- 11/14/08 - OCA Stirs Up Controversy Around Possible Appointment of Ex-Governor Vilsack for Obama's USDA Secretary
- 11/13/08 - Who Owns Nature?: Monsanto & Biotech Corporations Move to Monopolize Seeds & Biodiversity
- 11/13/08 - Michael Pollan: Eating Is a Political Act
- 11/12/08 - President-Elect Obama: Please Support Organic Food & Farming
- 11/12/08 - Saving the Nation's Seed Supply
- 11/12/08 - Grist Magazine on Food-Waste Collection
- 11/11/08 - Fast Food Originates With Corn, Study Says
- 11/10/08 - Obama Outlines Views on Agriculture
- 11/10/08 - Tyson Foods Injects Chickens with Antibiotics Before They Hatch to Claim 'Raised without Antibiotics'
- 11/10/08 - Obama Reportedly Considering Two Pro-Agribusiness Biotech Cheerleaders for USDA Secretary--Tom Vilsack & Collin Peterson
- 11/07/08 - After Landslide Victory for Prop. 2, National Farm Industry Squawks
- 11/04/08 - Studies Tie Bacteria in Beef to Ethanol Byproduct
- 11/04/08 - Women and Children Hardest Hit by the Food Crisis
- 11/03/08 - Will a New Administration Give Us the 'Safest Food Supply in the World'?
- 11/02/08 - Under Pressure from OCA & Unions, Bon Appetit Calls on BeefNorthwest/Country Natural Beef to Negotiate with United Farm Workers
- 10/30/08 - Tell Whole Foods & Retailers to Stop Ganging Up on Beef Northwest Farm Workers
- 10/30/08 - How the Food and Financial Crises Are Interconnected
- 10/30/08 - Message to the President-Elect: Stop the Raids on Immigrant Workers and Farm Workers in the First 100 Days
- 10/28/08 - OCA Policy Board Member Vandana Shiva Speaks at Slow Food Conference on New Visions for Responding to Climate Change
- 10/28/08 - Why You Should Get To Know Neem: The Tree of Life
- 10/27/08 - Plunging Crop Prices and Higher Costs Cloud Horizon for Conventional Farmers in U.S.
- 10/25/08 - The 2008 Land Grab for Food and Financial Security
- 10/24/08 - How Organic Agriculture Can Feed the World & Address Climate Change
- 10/24/08 - Why Migrant Farmworkers Need Unions: Blood, Sweat and Tears in California's Vineyards
- 10/22/08 - Whatever Happened to Cellulosic Ethanol?
- 10/21/08 - More Than One Way to Raise a Hog
- 10/21/08 - Farm-To-School Programs Grow Students' Appreciation for Locally Grown Food
- 10/21/08 - New Regulations Mandate Country of Origin Labels
- 10/20/08 - Monsanto Hurting Iowa & U.S. Farmers
- 10/17/08 - Hunger Eclipsed by Financial Crisis on World Food Day
- 10/17/08 - World Must Learn Lessons From Food Price Crisis
- 10/17/08 - The Media Miss the Story on Food's Connection to Climate Change
- 10/16/08 - THE SCOOP - October 2008 Organic Center Newsletter
- 10/15/08 - Whole Foods: Can You Hear Me Now? Organic & Natural Mean Workers Rights and Fair Trade
- 10/15/08 - Whole Foods: Listen to Organic Consumers--No Sweatshop Natural Beef!
- 10/14/08 - As Food Prices Rise, Fertilizer Shortage Now Threatens World's Conventional (Non-Organic) Farms
- 10/13/08 - Farm & Ranch Groups Expose NAIS as Attempt to Confuse Consumers & Destroy Small Livestock Producers
- 10/13/08 - The Crash: We've Seen This Before
- 10/11/08 - McCain and Obama Need to Talk Real Farm Policy
- 10/10/08 - Paraguayan Farmers Occupy Large Brazilian-Owned Farms to Block the Entry of Genetically-Modified Soy
- 10/10/08 - Equal Exchange Launches New Campaign to Create A Green and More Just Food System
- 10/09/08 - Food Security Challenges Health of Rural People and Communities
- 10/08/08 - U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization Call for Urgent Review of Biofuel Subsidies
- 10/08/08 - Much at Stake for Agriculturally Dependent Communities in Climate Change
- 10/08/08 - Depressed by Pesticides: Study Links Farmworker Psychiatric Disorders With Toxin Exposure
- 10/07/08 - A Tour of CAFO's in North Carolina
- 10/07/08 - Weighing Obama's and McCain's Stances on Food and Farm Policy
- 10/04/08 - Farmers & Ranchers Mobilizing to Stop USDA's 'Big Brother' National Animal Identification System (NAIS)
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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