What policymakers keep getting wrong about ending hunger
Ending hunger for everyone in the world by the year 2030 is the second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of the United Nations. A goal...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Four principles of organic agriculture (4/4): Care
The principles of health, ecology and fairness are brought together into the fourth and final principle of organic agriculture: the...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Nov 28, 2021
- 2 min
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the importance of soil inoculants for an organic future
It’s no secret that conventionally-cultivated soils tend to become, by themselves, poor. They’re often managed under exploitative...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Four principles of organic agriculture (3/4): Fairness
Unfairness is unsustainable, and organic agriculture aims for sustainability: it must, consequently, be fair. Even if it is not a part of...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Nov 11, 2021
- 2 min
Four principles for organic agriculture (2/4): Ecology.
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...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
Four principles for organic agriculture (1/4): Health.
Organic agriculture is a different sort of business. It is, of course, still a business, where profitability and productivity matter (how...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
Biological pest control agent profiles: Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR)
As a part of the collective efforts of the agricultural industry for finding ways of dealing with microscopic agents of disease, there...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Aug 28, 2021
- 2 min
Meet the organization giving a voice to organic agriculture worldwide
It was the fall in Versailles when a group of international participants (five, in total) arrived at the first meeting of a “big national...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Jul 5, 2021
- 3 min
Understanding externalities in agriculture, and their importance for organic producers
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...
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Miguel M.LS.
- May 30, 2021
- 3 min
Five edible cover crops that provide food while building the soil
The advantages of using cover crops to protect the soil and produce green manure are known to be many: nutrient scavenging in poor soils,...
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Miguel M.LS.
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
What are the so-called ‘orphan crops’, and why are they important?
By 2012, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation reported impacting figures on an alarming matter: only thirty species...
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Miguel M.LS.
- Apr 27, 2021
- 2 min
What is in a plant’s diet? (4/4): The basics of nutrient management
In past articles of this series we have covered with certain detail the thirteen micro and macronutrients that all plants need to survive...
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Prasanjeet Roy
- Apr 27, 2021
- 3 min
How conservation agriculture can contribute to the survival of small farms worldwide
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...
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