Posts Tagged ‘Green Food’
Presentation 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…
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