Posts Tagged ‘speech’
Paper 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 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 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 MoreSpeech titled Nutrition And How Food Is Grown 1970s
By Roger Blobaum, exact date unknown – written in the 1970s We think of nutrition as a personal responsibility. Or, perhaps more accurately, as the responsibility of the mothers of the family. We might assume, then, that bad nutrition is simply the result of bad mothering and that it can be corrected by the education…
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