UN backs organic farming

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The more we learn the more it becomes absolutely clear that making a shift to organic agriculture is critical to our future. Yet the Farm Bill sent to the Senate by the House remains full of the same old subsidies to the giant corporate ag that produces more food w/ less nutrition than anyone woulda thought possible and also subsidizes the shipping of this piss-poor technology to countries where folks are already beset by diseases of malnutrition.Not any kind of solution. And no amount of Monsanto golden rice or any of the rest of the GMO frauds are gonna change the fact that you simply cannot grow a healthy plant in a sick soil.
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UN backs organic farming
Posted: 05 Oct 2007

The organic food movement has received endorsement from the United Nations leading agency on food and agriculture, the FAO. In a new report, it says that organic farming fights hunger, tackles climate change, and is good for farmers, consumers and the environment. Sam Burcher reports.

The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has come out in favour of organic agriculture. Its report Organic Agriculture and Food Security explicitly states that organic agriculture can address local and global food security challenges.

Organic farming is no longer regarded as a niche market within developed countries, but a vibrant commercial agricultural system practised in 120 countries, covering 31 million hectares (ha) of cultivated land plus 62 million ha of certified wild harvested areas. The organic market was worth US$40 billion in 2006, and expected to reach US$70 billion by 2012.

Nadia Scialabba, an FAO official, defined organic agriculture as: “A holistic production management system that avoids the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, and genetically modified organisms, minimises pollution of air, soil and water, and optimises the health and productivity of plants, animals and people.”

The strongest benefits of organic agriculture, Scialabba said, are its reliance on fossil fuel independent, locally available resources that incur minimal agro-ecological stresses and are cost effective. She described organic agriculture as a ‘neo-traditional food system’ which combines modern science and indigenous knowledge.'

The FAO report strongly suggests that a worldwide shift to organic agriculture can fight world hunger and at the same time tackle climate change. According to FAO’s previous World Food Summit report], conventional agriculture, together with deforestation and rangeland burning, are responsible for 30 per cent of the CO2 and 90 per cent of nitrous oxide emissions worldwide.

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[Cha]

1. That's Awesome! It's Good to know

the UN has the intelligence not to be sucked in by gmo or herbicides for the fut-ture of our Planet!~

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2. K&R.nt

[DemExpat]

3. Great and good news.

To support organic farming and animal raising I buy it as much as I can.

DemEx