Posts Tagged ‘organic market’
INSIDE ORGANIC: Wal-Mart’s Move into Organic Retailing Creates Concern and Uncertainty in the Organic Sector (Sept 06)
by Roger Blobaum · Inside Organics · MOSES Broadcaster · Sept-Oct 2006The surprise announcement that Wal-Mart, the world’s largest food merchandiser, plans to use its well-known price cutting approach to move aggressively into organic retailing is sending waves of concern and uncertainty through the organic food and farming sectors. The Wal-Mart move, part of a…
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 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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