Greetings from Hayashima, Japan! It's been about a month and a half since I left Connecticut to spend a year teaching English in Japan...

The BBC series Natural World focuses on wildlife around the globe.  One 45 minute episode, titled A Farm For the Future , delves into the i...

Yield isn't the issue.  The issue is sustainability. As an addendum to yesterday's blog post about the organic -vs- conventiona...

Judge Sides with Monsanto in Lawsuit     Ridicules Connecticut NOFA Farmers' Right to Grow Food without Genetic Contamination and ...

According to the Euractiv.com article " Disgruntled GMO firms start pulling out of EU market " Monsanto has announced that it will...

Climate scientists, climate activists, farmers, agricultural scientists, and sustainable food advocates around the world have tried to high...

We generally think of organic and sustainable as going hand in hand, but in the produce department this isn't always the case.  The Ne...

The Huffington Post first published a story in 2010, which then was updated this year and has been reposted several times recently (perhaps...

Our certificate from IFOAM welcoming the NOFA Standards in Organic Land Care to the IFOAM Family of Standards The NOFA Organic Land C...

Jim Riddle from the University of Minnesota has compiled a great presentation that's provided on UMN's Organic Ecology website.   ...

The European Commission has proposed a greener Common Agriculture Policy for the European Union .  Conventional farming organizations have c...

Russell Libby really nailed the organic and sustainable message in his keynote speech at the MOFGA Common Ground Country Fair this past Se...

Supporting small farmers in developing countries, rural areas and urban areas is the kind of global stimulus package we need. This video fr...

On October 3-5 the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), in conjunction with the Organic World Conference, m...

A new report by 20 Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups, representing millions of people, sh...

Kenyan farmers gather corn Photo: Curt Camemark In August the government of Kenya fired the head of its National Biosafety Authority ...

Kenya is officially allowing the importation and growth of genetically modified organisms in their country. The National Biosafety Authorit...

I was on vacation and missed all this GMO-debate excitement, but it deserves a belated blog post.  Last week, this op-ed article in the New...

Photo: Bob Baker, ABC As more law suits against Monsanto and other biotechnology corporations crop up, the main concern driving this ...

I post on the blog frequently about organic agriculture's implementation abroad, especially in developing countries.  Yet another articl...