So, can organic farming feed the world?" – I usually groan (inwardly) when someone asks me this question, which seems to be a hazard that comes with the territory. Sometimes the questioner is eager for a plan to roll organic farming out across the world, sometimes they want an arcane discussion about the productivity of photosynthesis and sometimes they really want to know what I think. Generally, I pose the counter questions as to what are the reasons for hunger and ask what role the way in food is produced plays in the forces and flows that leave people without enough food. [More]

It seems appropriate, at a time of feasting, to discuss the future uses of human excrement, and in particular its possible role in organic farming. [More]

Organic dairy businesses have often been at the front of controversy around the collision of the organic movement’s aspirations and the realities of large business. This has been particularly the case in the US where bitter arguments have been held about organic dairying that to the critics within the organic movement is not different enough from the intensive farming practices that characterise much of the push to produce milk. [More]

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