The desirability of carbon-rich soil is a no-brainer for anybody engaged in agriculture and other land-based forms of food production....

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...

Out of all the water in the world, only 3.5% is freshwater, and around 70% of it is currently trapped in the form of permanent ice. This...

It would seem counterintuitive that emphasizing nature would foster deeply human values – at least, from the perspective of human beings...

When promoting policies that support and stimulate organic agriculture, one common criticism is heard: that organic agriculture lacks the...

Last March, the European Commission (the organism in charge of designing the implementation of the EU’s policies) presented a 22-page...

Everywhere around the world, but more so in the developing countries, vast deserts spring up from the ground and begin to cover formerly...

According to the most recent data on the subject, no less than a quarter of all the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from...

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

In the struggle to transition to a greener, healthier world, every single victory is a victory for the planet as a whole. Efforts of...

Even though it sounds like everything but a problem for many farmers and gardeners who have to face the increasing nutrient depletion of...

One of the beautiful aspects of organic agriculture (and regenerative agriculture in particular) is that it’s not magic: it’s a...

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...

Agricultural heritage systems may sound like they belong to the past, or like they are very limited to specific cultural contexts and...

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