Posts Tagged ‘Organic History’
Book 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 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 MoreEarth Summit: Draft Framework for NGO Working Group on Sustainable Agriculture 1995
Background and Purposes: The Nongovernmental Working Group on Sustainable Agriculture (working group for short) has been in existence since May, 1992 when it was formed to assist with coordination of NGO position and consensus development for the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The working group has no formal status, but is an adhoc and…
Read MorePresentation given to the Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources Republic of Moldova | 1994
By Roger Blobaum at the Senior Staff Seminar, Ministry of Environment & Natural Reources, Republic of Moldova, Kishinev, Moldova, July 8, 1994 I want to express my appreciation to Minister Fandofan for inviting me and to thank all of you for coming. It is a special privilege to be making a presentation to environmental and…
Read MoreStatement in response to the USDA Organic Livestock Hearing Notice dated Dec. 30, 1993: 1994
Statement by Roger Blobaum, President. Blobaum & Associates, 907 North Tower, 1331 Penn. Ave.. N.W. Washington, DC 20004. Submitted April 4, 1994 In response to USDA Organic Livestock Hearing Notice Dated Dec. 30. 1993 My name is Roger Blobaum and I own and manage a Washington-based consulting firm that provides professional services to organic and…
Read MorePublic Input to the National Organic Standards Board 1993
Statement by Roger Blobaum, Public Input Session, National Organic Standards Board, Kutztown, Pennsylvania May 16, 1993 Mr. Chairman and members of the board, my name is Roger Blobaum and I have a small consulting firm that provides professional services to organic and sustainable agriculture organizations. I have been involved in the development of organic agriculture…
Read MoreSustainable Agriculture: An Organic Vision for the 21st Century
Written in 1993 by Roger Blobaum Several months ago I gave a lecture to a group of students and faculty at Cornell University on sustainable agriculture. All was well until the question and answer session when a student raised his hand and asked, “What is your vision for sustainable agriculture?” At first I was speechless.…
Read MorePresentation at the Upper Midwest Organic Conference – Organic Farmers and the Feds: Can This Relationship Be Saved? 1993
Roger Blobaum, Upper Midwest Organic Conference, Sparta, Wisconsin, March 6, 1993 The title I have selected for this talk, “Organic Farmers and the Feds: Can This Relationship Be Saved?”, describes in many ways the difficult political situation we face with organic agriculture today. Getting the feds and organic farmers together in 1990 wasn’t easy. It…
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 MoreArticle published in the “Wisconsin Academy Review” – Report from Rio: Focus on Sustainable Agriculture 1992
Report from Rio: Focus on Sustainable Agriculture by Roger Blobaum 7th June of this year, in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, I attended the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development as the accredited representative of the World Sustainable Agriculture Association. This event, the largest United Nations-sponsored meeting ever held, is usually referred…
Read MoreEarth Summit Report presentated at the Issues and Answers Forum of the UN Conference on Environment & Development 1992
Presented at NAL’s Issues and Answers Forum, November 18, 1992 Updated and Published in Agricultural Libraries Information Notes, Volume 19, Numbers 10-12 October-December 1993 ISSN: 0095-2699 1993 by Roger Blobaum, Associate Director, World Sustainable Agriculture Association (WSAA) I want to thank Jayne MacLean for this invitation to participate in this Issues and Answers Forum. She…
Read MoreArticle published in “NUTRITION ACTION: Health Newsletter” – Signed, Certified…& Organic -1992
November 1992, by Roger Blobaum Q: Is organic food completely free of pesticides? A: Not necessarily. It sometimes contains trace amounts of synthetic chemicals. Q: How can that happen? A: There are lots of ways. Pesticides can be carried to organic fields by irrigation water, rain, wind-blown dust, fog, and drift from spray that has…
Read MoreEarth Summit NGO Action Treaties On Sustainable Development June 11,1992
These treaties are meant to be new models for agreements unlike traditional government treaties. NGOs which agree to sign on are committing themselves with the other signatories to take action and work in collaboration with other signatories lo achieve the goal(s) of each treaty. They are not meant to direct others or indicate what should…
Read MoreEarth Summit NGO Food Security Treaty JUNE 11, 1992
I. PREAMBLE: CURRENT POLICY & CRITIQUE Food security is having the means as an individual, family, community, region, or country to adequately meet nutritional needs on a daily and annual basis. It includes freedom from both famine and chronic malnutrition. Food security is best assured when food is locally produced, processed, stored and distributed, and…
Read MoreEarth Summit NGO Sustainable Agriculture Treaty JUNE 11, 1992
I. PREAMBLE: CURRENT POLICY & CRITIQUE Knowing that: 1. The dominant global socio-economic and political system which promotes the model of industrial agricultural production and rural development is the root of the social and environmental crisis in agriculture, and its effects extend from rural to urban areas on a planetary scale; 2. Although the present…
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