A 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…

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Presentation 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…

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A 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…

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