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Presentation at the OFARM Annual Meeting – Political Action Needed to Turn Back Threats to Organic Integrity 2004
Presented at the OFARM Annual Meeting in La Crosse, WI February 25, 2004, By Roger Blobaum I want to talk with you today about recent political developments that are undermining organic integrity and the support of consumers and environmentalists and that may be putting your markets and incomes at risk. My comments will focus on…
Read MorePresentation: The Role of Accreditation In Accessing the Global Organic Marketplace | 2003
International Organic Accreditation Service 118 1/2 1st Avenue, South Jamestown, ND 59401 Phone: 701 252 4070 Fax: 701 252 4124 E Mail: [email protected] May 16, 2003 My presentation will focus on the growing number of Third World smallholders who produce organic food, the certifiers who verify their compliance with organic standards and requirements for certification,…
Read MoreA speech presented at the Woodrow Wilson Center titled “Sustainable Agriculture In China” | 2003
Remarks by Roger Blobaum, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, March 13,2003 Sustainable Agriculture In China I want to begin by saying that I have had, and still have, some professional involvement in the evolution of the organic farming sector in China. This presentation, as a result, will include occasional references to my own experience and…
Read MoreRemarks at the Organic Valley Reception Washington, D.C. October 2, 2002
I want to thank George Siemon and his colleagues at Organic Valley for arranging this event and for inviting all of us who have worked on organic issues here over the last 13 years or more. I don’t feel we have been any kind of unsung heroes, as George suggests. We got involved, and have…
Read MorePresentation at the Upper Midwest Organic Conference: Organic Farming Has Gone Global | 2001
An Overview of International Developments Presented at the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, March 16, 2001 This is the third year I have had an opportunity to talk about global organic trends at this conference. I am especially pleased to discuss them today because, for the most part, what is happening is positive and encouraging.
Read MorePresentation given in Beijing, China titled “Organic Food Exports from China to the United States” | 2000
Roger Blobaum of Blobaum & Associates, The National Conference on Organic Food Exports, April 25, 2000, in Beijing, China. I. Introduction This presentation includes: (1) a description of the U.S. organic agriculture sector; (2) a description of the U.S. organic market; (3) a description of the current U.S. regulatory framework; (4) a discussion of proposed…
Read MoreVision Document Produced by the Soul of Agriculture project: Soul Of Agriculture: A Production Ethic For the 21st Century, Creating A New Vision Of Farming | 1998
SOUL OF AGRICULTURE: A PRODUCTION ETHIC FOR THE 21st CENTURY CREATING A NEW VISION OF FARMING JULY 1998
Read MoreInvitation to “Soul Of Agriculture Get-Together” to Participate in the Creation of a Vision Document | 1998
Presentation at the Upper Midwest Organic Conference 1998
Roger Blobaum, Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference, Sinsinawa, Wisconsin, February 20, 1998 When Faye Jones asked me last November to pick a title for my talk here, I had just completed a year as coordinator of a new initiative called the Soul of Agriculture Project. And I had just spent several weeks putting together a…
Read More“The Sixty-Six Points of Darkness” || January 15-16, 1998
The following document lists brief descriptions of key issues flagged by participants at the National Campaign’s January meeting. The rough notes contained sixty-six numbered items (hence the sinister title) but some were redundant and others were really several issues in one. The entries here have attempted to smooth out some of these rough spots, so…
Read MoreThe Soul Of Agriculture Conference Descriptive Summary | 1997
THE SOUL OF AGRICULTURE: A NEW PRODUCTION ETHIC FOR THE 21st CENTURY, A National Conference November 14-16, 1997, Minneapolis, Minnesota This national conference is sponsored by the Center for Respect for Life and Environment. It is an activity of the Soul of Agriculture Project, a two-year effort established by the Center in late 1995 to…
Read MoreProgram for the National Conference – The Soul Of Agriculture | 1997
A National Conference, November 14-16, 1997, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Read MoreBook Chapter in “For All Generations: Making World Agriculture More Sustainable ” Publicly Funded Models Supporting Sustainable Agriculture: Four Model Profiles 1997
For All Generations: Making World Agriculture More Sustainable Edited by Patrick Madden and Scott Chaplowe. Publisher: Om Pub Consultants (June 25, 1997) ISBN-10: 0965576701 ISBN-13: 978-0965576703 Chapter 12 Publicly Funded Models Supporting Sustainable Agriculture: Four Model Profiles by Roger Blobaum Nearly five years have passed since representatives of 178 countries came together at the Earth…
Read MoreBook Chapter in “For All Generations: Making World Agriculture More Sustainable” – The Worldwide Expansion of Organic Farming: Its Potential Contribution to a Global Transition to Sustainable Agriculture 1997
For All Generations: Making World Agriculture More Sustainable Edited by Patrick Madden and Scott Chaplowe. Publisher: Om Pub Consultants (June 25, 1997) ISBN-10: 0965576701 ISBN-13: 978-0965576703 Chapter 7 The Worldwide Expansion of Organic Farming: Its Potential Contribution to a Global Transition to Sustainable Agriculture by Roger Blobaum Expansion of organic fanning throughout the world, rapid…
Read MoreReport by WSAA to the Commission for Sustainable Development of the United Nations – Publicly Funded Models Supporting Sustainable Agriculture: Twenty Model Profiles 1997
Dedicated to the well being of all people in harmony with Nature WSAA Report to the Commission for Sustainable Development of the United Nations WSAA Occasional Paper No. 3 April 1997 by Roger Blobaum Preface Established in 1991, The World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA) is an educational, research, advocacy and service organization that promotes agricultural…
Read MoreTestimony to the US Senate Agriculture Committee on the Organic Rule 1997
My name is Roger Blobaum and most of my work on organic food and farming has been as a consultant to public interest organizations and institutions. This process has dragged on a long time. In 1990 the Senate Agriculture Committee was presented with petitions containing 136,000 names of people asking for national organic standards. Most…
Read MoreA speech on Organic and Sustainable Agriculture in Asia | 1996
By Roger Blobaum, October, 26, 1996 In a 1911 book entitled ‘Farmers of Forty Centuries,” F.H. King, retired chief of USDA’s Division of Soil Management, described how farmers in Asia had farmed the same fields for 4,000 years without destroying their fertility. L. F. Bailey, in the preface to this agricultural classic, said the book’s…
Read MoreEarth Summit Article titled Two Years After Rio: Progress in Making a Global Transition to Sustainable Agriculture 1995
TWO YEARS AFTER RIO: PROGRESS IN MAKING A GLOBAL TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE Reprinted from FFTC Book Series No. 46 Sustainable Food Production in the Asian and Pacific Region December 1995 By Roger Blobaum World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA) 907 North Tower, 1331 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington D.C. 20004, U.S.A. Keynote Speech INTRODUCTION As a…
Read MorePaper titled Current Status and Future Prospects in Selected Countries | 1995
By Roger Blobaum, World Sustainable Agriculture Association. October 1995 INTRODUCTION The main focus of this paper is a review of progress being made in a transition to more environmentally sound farming methods in several important agricultural countries outside of Europe. It reports on agricultural trends and changes underway in the United States, Canada, Australia, China,…
Read MorePaper on the Earmarked Grants Program, a Regional Environmental Center program that makes grants to non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) | 1995
A Review and Recommendations Prepared by, Roger Blobaum World Sustainable Agriculture Association September 1995
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