Posts Tagged ‘China’
Guest Commentary published in the “OFARM Quarterly” – Organic Farmers and Consumers Face New Challenge: Stopping Government Backsliding on Organic Integrity 2006
Organic Farmers and Consumers Face New Challenge: Stopping Government Backsliding on Organic Integrity This guest commentary was published in the November 2006 issue of OFARM Quarterly. By Roger Blobaum Developments unfolding in the organic industry are raising serious new concerns about how fast the organic sector can be expanded and mainstreamed without weakening standards, undermining…
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 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 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 MorePresentation to the Green Food Association, Xian, China 1995
Before there was an organic program in China there was a sustainable agriculture organization called “Green Food” with staff in every major city. Roger Blobaum was invited for a week to brief Green Food staff on organic certification and accreditation standards. The last evening he was told there was going to be a national training…
Read MoreA paper titled Organic Food and Farming; Development of Ecologically-Sound Agriculture Around the World 1993
Organic Food and Farming; Development of Ecologically-Sound Agriculture Around the World By Roger Blobaum, World Sustainable Agriculture Association 1993 Abstract. This paper reports on the growth of organic agriculture in many parts of the world, continuing attempts to define organic food and farming, trends in the development of international organic food markets, factors responsible for…
Read MoreProducing China’s Food on 50,000 Party-Controlled Agricultural Communes: Roger’s 1975 Trip Report and Photos
By Roger Blobaum The narrow highway connecting Nanking and Yangchou is a maze of bicycles, two-wheeled carts, and other slow-moving vehicles that challenge a bus driver’s patience and overworks the loud horn that helps clear the way. Unusual obstacles include a stretch where rice is spread to dry in the sun on half the black-topped…
Read MoreINSIDE ORGANIC: Surprise NOP Auditor Visits to Organic Farms and Processors in China is Overdue Response to Concerns About Integrity of Organic Food Imports (Sept 07)
by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · Sept 2007 Widely publicized reports of Chinese lapses in guaranteeing the safety of its food exports, including press reports raising questions about the integrity of its organic food exports, suggest an urgent need to increase government and industry oversight that will guarantee organic integrity and reassure consumers. The…
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