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Latest Organic Science News
- 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
- 06/04/08 - Organic Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows Contains Higher Levels of Beneficial Nutrients
- 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
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
- 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)
- 10/04/08 - Biotech & Industrial Ag Bubble Bursting - Monsanto & Fertilizer Stocks Take a Dive
- 10/04/08 - The Wall Street Mega Bailout: Bad News for the World's Hungry
- 10/03/08 - Latest Farm News--Bailout Implications, Crop Prices, Weather, Biofuels & Farm Bill
- 10/03/08 - California's Main Farm Paper Covers the OCA/UFW/Teamsters Fair Trade Pressure Campaign Against Beef Northwest
- 10/02/08 - While Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Flourish, a House Subcommittee Buries its Head
- 10/02/08 - Food First: Putting People First (October 1, 2008 Issue)
- 10/01/08 - After Bush Abuses, We Need New Farm Policies
- 10/01/08 - Latest Farm News--Bailout Implications, Crop Prices, Weather, Biofuels & Farm Bill
- 09/30/08 - OCA and Teamsters: "Whole Foods, Be Fair to Beef Workers!"
- 09/29/08 - Citing Cost, USDA Kills Pesticide-Testing Program
- 09/29/08 - Real Food Makes a Comeback: You May Now Kiss Your Local Farmer
- 09/29/08 - UK's Soil Association Urges Ban on Pesticides to Halt Bee Deaths
- 09/27/08 - Vermont Farm Leader, Linda Faillace, on Why the USDA Will Not Allow US Beef Producer, Creekstone Farms, to Test Cows for Mad Cow Disease
- 09/26/08 - GAO: EPA Has Seriously Botched CAFO Oversight
- 09/26/08 - New Research Shows That Ethanol Will Continue to Increase the Cost of Wheat
- 09/26/08 - Gates Foundation Wants to Boost Local Agriculture in Developing Nations
- 09/26/08 - NRDC Sues EPA for Honey Bee Lab Data and EPA Approves Another Bee-Killing Pesticide
- 09/26/08 - The Financial Crisis and the Food Crisis: Two Sides of the Same Coin
- 09/25/08 - Countering Whole Foods Market BS on Why They Continue to Sell 'Sweatshop' Natural Beef
- 09/24/08 - Electricity From What Cows Leave Behind
- 09/24/08 - Report: More Factory Farming But Oversight Lags
- 09/24/08 - World's Soils in Sharp Decline; Global Food Shortage to Follow
- 09/23/08 - Efforts to Halt the National Animal Identification System Head to Court
- 09/23/08 - Global Priorities: Feeding Markets, Starving the Hungry
- 09/22/08 - Fighting to Keep Food Local at Virginia's Polyface Farm
- 09/22/08 - Farm Aid Concert Promotes Family Farms & Organics for 23rd Year
- 09/22/08 - World Hunger Outstripping Aid Efforts
- 09/19/08 - The Key Political, Economic, and Cultural Needs of Young Farmers
- 09/19/08 - THE SCOOP - September 2008 Organic Center Newsletter
- 09/19/08 - Italy Bans Pesticides Linked to Bee Devastation
- 09/16/08 - Feminized Toads Linked to Farms
- 09/15/08 - Proposed Cuts to Agriculture Conservation Programs
- 09/15/08 - New Law Requires Labels on Meat - Country-of-Origin Labels to be Required
- 09/13/08 - Electronic Smog 'is Disrupting Nature on a Massive Scale'
- 09/12/08 - Parents of Limbless Boy Tell of Being Sprayed With Pesticide During Work
- 09/11/08 - Honey Bees Not Healthy in U. S. or U. K.
- 09/10/08 - The Local Food Movement Reaches Into the Breadbasket for Flour That Has the Flavor of Home
- 09/09/08 - Family Farmers Possess Vested Interest in Organic Dairy Standards
- 09/09/08 - Center for Rural Affairs on Farm Program Reform
- 09/08/08 - Tell Congress to Protect Funding for Organic Ag Research
- 09/06/08 - Corporate Lobbyists, Posing as Poor Farmers, Attack Organics & Pimp the Benefits of Genetic Engineering
- 09/05/08 - Bayer on Defensive in Bee Deaths
- 09/05/08 - Poison In Your Stomach: Genetically Modified Eggplants
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