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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] organic farming is the key to feeding the world
  • Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:45:42 -0600


Organic gardening
http://www.journeytoforever.org/garden.html

-- "Organic gardening is not just a middle-class hobby. It's part of
the wider environmental movement, it's part of a sustainable future. I
believe that you could feed the whole world using organic methods." --
Jackie Gear, Executive Director of the HDRA, Britain's Organic Association,
1991.

-- "The truth, so effectively suppressed that it is now almost
impossible to believe, is that organic farming is the key to feeding the
world." -- "Biotech has bamboozled us all -- Studies suggest that
traditional farming methods are still the best", The Guardian, August 24,
2000
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/
Archive/Article/0,4273,4054683,00.html

-- "Organic farming could produce enough food to feed large
populations, according to British scientists at the Festival of Science in
Sheffield." -- "Organic farming can 'feed the world'", BBC Science,
September 14, 1999
http://www.purefood.org/Organic/orgfeedworld.cfm

-- "Feeding the world?" Quietly, slowly and very significantly,
sustainable agriculture is sweeping the farming systems of the world --
Jules Pretty, Director of the Centre for Environment and Society at the
University of Essex, examines the myths and realities of sustainable
farming's quiet revolution.
http://members.tripod.com/~ngin/article2.htm

"It sounds like an environmentalist's dream. Low-tech 'sustainable
agriculture', shunning chemicals in favour of natural pest control and
fertiliser, is pushing up crop yields on poor farms across the world, often
by 70 per cent or more. But it's no dream. That's the claim being made in
the biggest ever survey of green-minded farming. The findings will make
sobering reading for people convinced that only genetically modified crops
can feed the planet's hungry in the 21st century. The gains are greatest
among poor farmers..." -- "The greener revolution", New Scientist, 3
February 2001






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