Ending hunger for everyone in the world by the year 2030 is the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of the United Nations. A goal...

The principles of health, ecology and fairness are brought together into the fourth and final principle of organic agriculture: the...

It’s no secret that conventionally-cultivated soils tend to become, by themselves, poor. They’re often managed under exploitative...

Unfairness is unsustainable, and organic agriculture aims for sustainability: it must, consequently, be fair. Even if it is not a part of...

Seen from the outside, agriculture may seem to be a magical process: things are planted in the soil, cared for during a season, and food...

Organic agriculture is a different sort of business. It is, of course, still a business, where profitability and productivity matter (how...

As a part of the collective efforts of the agricultural industry for finding ways of dealing with microscopic agents of disease, there...

It was the fall in Versailles when a group of international participants (five, in total) arrived at the first meeting of a “big national...

Whenever a good is produced (let's say, an airplane, a coffee cup, or, for the agricultural sector, a pound of tomatoes or a single...

The advantages of using cover crops to protect the soil and produce green manure are known to be many: nutrient scavenging in poor soils,...

By 2012, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation reported impacting figures on an alarming matter: only thirty species...

In past articles of this series we have covered with certain detail the thirteen micro and macronutrients that all plants need to survive...

According to a recent study, we live a world that is seeing an ever-growing concentration of farmland into fewer hands: around 70% of the...