Organic Agriculture Will Terminate World Hunger

ORGANIC AGRICULTURE WILL TERMINATE WORLD HUNGER
Utilizing advanced organic farming technology to eliminate hunger. Why

Genetic Engineered Food will not solve the World Hunger Issue. Many
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Several high-profile advocates of conventional agricultural production have stated that the world would
starve if we all converted to organic agriculture. They have written articles for science journals and
other publications saying that organic agriculture is not sustainable and produces yields that are
significantly lower than conventional agriculture.
Thus, the push for genetically modified organisms, growth hormones, animal-feed antibiotics, food
irradiation and toxic synthetic chemicals is being justified, in part, by the rationale that without these
products the world will not be able to feed itself.
Ever since Thomas Malthus wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population in 1798 and first raised the
specter of overpopulation, various experts have been predicting the end of human civilization because
of mass starvation.
The theme was popularized again by Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 book, The Population Bomb. According
to Ehrlich’s logic, we should all be starving now that the 21st century has arrived:
The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines hundreds of
millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.
The only famines that have occurred since 1968 have been in African countries saddled with corrupt
governments, political turmoil, civil wars and periodic droughts. The world had enough food for these
people it was political and logistical events that prevented them from producing adequate food or
stopped aid from reaching them. Hundreds of millions of people did not starve to death.
The specter of mass starvation is being pushed again as the motive for justifying GMOs. In June 2003,
President Bush stated at a biotechnology conference:
We should encourage the spread of safe, effective biotechnology to win the fight against global hunger.
We must now ask ourselves:
Is global hunger due to a shortage of food production
In this first decade of the 21st century, many farmers around the world are facing a great economic
crisis of low commodity prices. These low prices are due to oversupply. Current economic theories
hold that prices decrease when supply is greater than demand.
Most of our current production systems are price driven, with the need for economies of scale to reduce
unit costs. The small profit margins of this economic environment favor enterprises working in terms of
large volume, and as a result the family farm is declining. Many areas of the United States and
Australia have fewer farmers now than 100 years ago, and the small rural centers they support are
disappearing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers have had to leave their farms in Argentina due to
higher production costs and lower commodity prices. The sugar industry in Australia is on the verge of
collapse for the same reason. Australian dairy farmers continue to leave the industry since deregulation
forced down the prices they receive. Most of the major industrial countries are subsidizing their farmers
so that their agricultural sectors do not collapse.
Europe, North America, Australia and Brazil are in the process of converting a large percentage of their
arable land from food production to biofuels such as ethanol in an effort to establish viable markets for
their farmers. The latest push in GMO development is BioPharm, in which plants such as corn,
sugarcane and tobacco are modified to produce new compounds such as hormones, vaccines, plastics,
polymers and other non-food compounds. All of these developments will mean that less food is grown
on some of the world’s most productive farmland.
Grain farmers in India have protested about cheap imports that are sending them deeper into poverty.
Countries such as India and China, once considered as overpopulated basket cases, export large
quantities of food. In fact, India, one of the world’s most populated countries, is a net food exporter in
most years.
South American rainforests are cleared for pasture that is grazed with beef destined for the hamburger
chains of North America. Once the soil is depleted, new areas are cleared for pasture and old, degraded
areas are abandoned to weeds. In Asia, most of the forests are cleared for timber that is exported to the
developed industrial economies. One of the saddest things about this massive, wasteful destruction of
biodiversity is that very little of the newly cleared land is used to feed the poor. Most of this production
of timber and beef is exported to the world’s richest economies.
The reality is that the world produces more than enough food to feed everyone and has more than
enough suitable agricultural land to do it. Unfortunately, due to inefficient, unfair distribution systems
and poor farming methods, millions of people do not receive adequate nutrition.
Can organic agriculture feed the world?
Organic agriculture needs to be able to answer two major questions:

1. Can organic agriculture produce high yields?
2. Can organic agriculture get the food to the people who need it?
An editorial in New Scientist for February 3, 2001, stated that low-tech, sustainable agriculture is
increasing crop yields on poor farms across the world, often by 70 percent or more. This has been
achieved by replacing synthetic chemicals with natural pest control and natural fertilizers.
Professor Jules Pretty, director of the Centre for Environment and Society at the University of Essex,
wrote:
Recent evidence from 20 countries has found more than 2 million families farming sustainably on more
than 4-5 million hectares. This is no longer marginal. It cannot be ignored. What is remarkable is not so
much the numbers, but that most of this has happened in the past 5-10 years. Moreover, many of the
improvements are occurring in remote and resource-poor areas that had been assumed to be incapable
of producing food surpluses.
An excellent example of this type of agricultural extension has been published in the January 2003
World Vision News. Working in conjunction AusAID, World Vision linked farmers from the
impoverished Makuyu community in Kenya with the Kenya Institute of Organic Farming (KIOF).
They arranged workshops where KIOF members taught the principles of organic farming,
including compost making, preparing safe organic pesticides, organic vegetable gardening and organic
care of livestock.
Maize yields increased by four to nine times. The organically grown crops produced yields that were 60
percent higher than crops grown with expensive chemical fertilizers.
The wonderful thing is that many of these farmers now have a surplus of food to sell, whereas
previously they did not even have enough to eat. They are organizing marketing co-ops to sell this
surplus.
The profits are going back to the community. They have distributed dairy goats, rabbits, hives and
poultry to community members and have planted 20,000 trees, including 2,000 mangos. Several of the
organic farmers are training many other farmers in the district and helping them to apply organic
farming techniques to their farms.
The mood of the community has changed. They are now confident and empowered with the knowledge
that they can overcome the problems in their community.
These types of simple, community-based organic agricultural models are what is needed around the
world to end rural poverty and starvation, not GMOs and expensive toxic chemicals.
The Makuyu community in Kenya is not an isolated example. Professor Pretty gives other examples
from around the world of increases in yield when farmers have replaced synthetic chemicals and shifted
to sustainable/organic methods:
223,000 farmers in southern Brazil using green manures and cover crops of legumes and livestock
integration have doubled yields of maize and wheat to 4-5 tons/hectare.
45,000 farmers in Guatemala and Honduras used regenerative technologies to triple maize yields to 2-
2.5 tons/ha and diversify their upland farms, which has led to local economic growth that has in turn
encouraged remigration back from the cities.
200,000 farmers across Kenya as part of sustainable agriculture programs have more than doubled their
maize yields to about 2.5 to 3.3 tons/ha and substantially improved vegetable production through the
dry seasons.
100,000 small coffee farmers in Mexico have adopted fully organic production methods and increased
yields by half.
A million wetland rice farmers in Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri
Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam have shifted to sustainable agriculture, where group-based farmer field
schools have enabled farmers to learn alternatives to pesticides and increase their yields by about 10
percent.
Nicolas Parrott of Cardiff University, U.K., authored a report entitled The Real Green Revolution. He
gives case studies that confirm the success of organic and agroecological farming techniques in the
developing world:
In Madhya Pradesh, India, average cotton yields on farms participating in the Maikaal Bio-Cotton
Project are 20 percent higher than on neighboring conventional farms.
In Madagascar, SRI (System of Rice Intensification) has increased yields from the usual 2-3 tons per
hectare to yields of 6, 8 or 10 tons per hectare.
In Tigray, Ethiopia, a move away from intensive agrochemical usage in favor of composting has
produced an increase in yields and in the range of crops it is possible to grow.
In the highlands of Bolivia, the use of bonemeal and phosphate rock and intercropping with nitrogen-
fixing lupin species have significantly contributed to increases in potato yields.
One of the most important aspects of the teaching farmers in these regions to increase yields with
sustainable/organic methods is that the food and fiber is produced close to where it is needed and in
many cases by the people who need it. It is not produced halfway around the world, transported, and
then sold to them.
Another important aspect is the low input costs. Growers do not need to buy expensive imported
fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. The increase in yields also comes with lower production costs,
allowing a greater profit to these farmers.
Third, the substitution of more labor-intensive activities such as cultural weeding, composting and
intercropping for expensive imported chemical inputs provides more employment for local and regional
communities. This employment allows landless laborers to pay for their food and other needs.
As in the example of the Makuyu community in Kenya, these benefits lead to a positive change in the
wealth and the mood of the community. These communities are revitalized, proactive and empowered
to improve their future.
Can organic agriculture achieve high yields in developed

nations?
Since 1946, the advent of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, improved crop varieties and
industrial paradigms are credited with producing the high yields of the green revolution. Because
organic agriculture avoids many of these new inputs, it is assumed that it always results in lower yields.
The assumption that greater inputs of synthetic chemical fertilizers and pesticides are required to
increase food yields is not accurate. In a study published in The Living Land, Professor Pretty looked at
projects in seven industrialized countries of Europe and North America. He reported:
Farmers are finding that they can cut their inputs of costly pesticides and fertilizers substantially,
varying from 20 to 80 percent, and be financially better off. Yields do fall to begin with (by 10 to 15
percent, typically), but there is compelling evidence that they soon rise and go on increasing. In the
USA, for example, the top quarter of sustainable agriculture farmers now have higher yields than
conventional farmers, as well as a much lower negative impact on the environment.
Professor George Monbiot, in an article in the Guardian (August 24, 2000), wrote that wheat grown
with manure has produced consistently higher yields for the past 150 years than wheat grown with
chemical nutrients, in U.K. trials.
A study of apple production conducted by Washington State University compared the economic and
environmental sustainability of conventional, organic and integrated growing systems in apple
production. The organic system had equivalent yields to the other systems. The study also showed that
the break-even point was nine years after planting for the organic system and 15 and 16 years,
respectively, for conventional and integrated farming systems.
In an article published in the peer-review scientific journal Nature, Laurie Drinkwater and colleagues
from the Rodale Institute showed that organic farming had better environmental outcomes as well as
similar yields of both products and profits when compared to conventional, intensive agriculture.
Gary Zimmer, one of the American pioneers of biological farming, runs an organic dairy farm with his
son in Wisconsin. In 2000 one of his remineralized alfalfa (lucerne) fields produced a yield four times
greater than the average for the district. He has increased the nutrient value of pasture by 300 percent
and currently calves 150 cows every year without a single health problem.
Dick Thompson, a founding member of the Progressive Farmers of Iowa, engages in organic farm
research in conjunction with the University of Iowa, the Rodale Institute and the Wallace Institute. He
obtains some of the highest yields in his district using composts, ridge-tilling and crop rotations.
The innovative system of rotationally grazing several species of animals developed by Joel and Theresa
Salatin of Polyface Farm in Virginia is one of the best examples of a high-yield organic system. They
use 100 acres of dryland pasture to cell-graze cattle, sheep, pigs, meat chickens, laying hens, turkeys,
pheasants and rabbits.
Their system is based on native pastures, without cultivation or new, improved pasture species. The
only input has been the feed for the poultry. This multi-species rotational grazing system builds one
inch of soil a year and returns the family 15 times the income per acre than is received by neighbouring
farms using a set stocking of cattle.
Steve Bartolo, president of the Australian Organic Sugar Producers Association, produced similar
yields of commercial sugar per hectare from his organic Q124 cane and his conventional cane in 2002.
The average yield of sugar for his best organic cane achieved higher tonnes per hectare compared to the
average of all conventionally grown Q124.
Greg Paynter, an organic farmer who works for the Queensland Department of Primary Industries,
conducted the organic section of grain comparison trials at Dalby Agricultural College in 2002. The
organic wheat produced 3.23 tonnes to the hectare compared to the conventional wheat yield of 2.22
tonnes. This trial was conducted during one of the worst droughts on record.
Graham McNally of Kialla Farms, one of Australia’s significant organic pioneers, consistently achieves
yields comparable to those of the conventional farms in his region.
Dr Rick Welsh of the Henry A. Wallace Institute reviewed numerous academic publications comparing
organic and conventional production systems in the United States. The data showed that the organic
systems were more profitable. This profit was not always due to premiums, but was instead a result of
lower production and input costs as well as more consistent yields. Dr. Welsh’s study also showed that
organic agriculture produces better yields than conventional agriculture in adverse weather events, such
as droughts or higher-than-average rainfall.
Will GMOs feed the world?
Argentina is a good example of what happens when a country pursues the policies of market
deregulation and GMO crops. It is the third-largest producer of GMO crops, with 28 percent of the
world’s production. By the 1999-2000 season, more than 80 percent of the total soybean acreage, or 6.6
million hectares, had been converted to GMOs.
These are some of the results according to a study published by Lehmann and Pengue in the
Biotechnology and Development Monitor:
Declining profit margins prices for soybeans declined 28 percent between 1993 and 1999.
Farmers’ profit margins fell by half between 1992 and 1999, making it difficult for many to pay off
bank loans for machinery, chemical inputs and seeds.
A 32 percent decrease in producers between 1992 and 1997, the number of producers dropped from
170,000 to 116,000, meaning 54,000 farmers were forced to leave the industry.
At least 50 percent of the acreage is now managed by corporate agriculture.
There is an increasing role of transnational companies in the agricultural sector.
Industrialization of grain and soybean production has boosted dependence on foreign agricultural inputs
and increased foreign debt.
Removal of import tariffs led to the bankruptcy of domestic farm machinery manufacturers and a loss
of employment.
The commercial seed sector has become increasingly controlled by subsidiaries of transnational
corporations.
Since the above data was published, the Argentinean economy collapsed, causing riots and the
resignations of several governments. The country is now currently in deep debt, with its economy under
the control of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Its standard of living has declined,
and thousands more farmers have been forced off their farms. Rural and urban poverty and hunger has
increased.
According to Caritas Argentina, the social services agency of the Catholic Church in that country, over
40 percent of all Argentinean children are now undernourished:
World Health Organization standards for daily caloric intake are unmet for nearly 40 percent of
Argentinean children under 18, and for up to half in the poorer northeast region of the country. Even in
the comparatively wealthy capital city Buenos Aires, at least 19 children have died of malnutrition in
recent months.
If GMOs cannot feed the children in the country that is the world’s third-largest
producer of GMO crops, how will they feed the rest of the world?
Conclusion:
Organic agriculture can feed the world.
The data thus shows that it is possible to obtain very good yields using organic systems. This is not
uniform at the moment, with many organic growers not yet producing at the levels that are achievable.
Education on the best practices in organic agriculture is a cost-effective and simple method of ensuring
high levels of economically, environmentally and socially sustainable production where it is needed.
Organic agriculture is a viable solution to preventing global hunger because:

It can achieve high yields.
It can achieve these yields in the areas where it is needed most.
It has low inputs.
It is cost-effective and affordable.
It provides more employment so that the impoverished can purchase their own needs.
It does not require any expensive technical investment.
It costs tens of millions of dollars and takes many years to develop one genetically modified plant
variety.
This money would be spent far more productively on organic agricultural

education, research and extension in the areas where we need to overcome hunger and
poverty.
Organic agriculture is the quickest, most efficient, most cost-

effective and fairest way to feed the world.
Andre Leu is the president of the Organic Producers Association of Queensland and vice chair of the
Organic Federation of Australia. He can be reached at P.O. Box 800, Mossman, Queensland 4873,
Australia.
Organic Producers Association of Queensland

http://www.ofa.org.au
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markets for American industrial exports and meant hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans."
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risks.
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ACUTE PESTICIDE POISONING: A MAJOR GLOBAL HEALTH PROBLEM

http://calameo.com/books/00064084595afe926eddc
African Americans and Global Warming

http://en.calameo.com/books/000571242d5049a40aed4
Agriculture at a Cross Roads

http://calameo.com/books/000640845286b867b9e57
Agroecology - How to Feed the World Without Destroying It

http://calameo.com/books/00064084501bee5821e4a
Agroecology and Sustainable Development

http://calameo.com/books/0006408456a4cf227865a
Atrazine - most commonly detected Pesticides in Ground Water
http://calameo.com/books/000640845ca1f30e42543
Childhood pesticide poisoning

http://calameo.com/books/000640845cf16ce4f1cb8
Climate and Church: How Global Warming Will Impact Core Church Ministries
http://en.calameo.com/books/000571242c8fa0c945302
Climate and Poverty Earth Day Sunday Resource

http://en.calameo.com/books/0005712423faa8251f9c8
Climate Justice
http://calameo.com/books/00062163154285f01058b
Communities in Peril - Global impacts of Pesticide Use

http://calameo.com/books/0006408720a23c5ae3e93
Connecting the Dots - Biodiversity, Adaptation and Food Security

http://calameo.com/books/000640845c55c74b0e283
Cry of Creation: A Call for Climate Justice

http://en.calameo.com/books/0005712425bcbf9f719d9
Family Fruit Farmers: Poisoning by Pesticides

http://calameo.com/books/0006408450bac19747754
Farm Worker Exposure to Pesticides

http://calameo.com/books/000640845044b9e753aef
Farm Workers Poisoned in Pesticide Drift Accident

http://calameo.com/books/00064084553d618cd7008
Farmworker Health Facts

http://calameo.com/books/000640845a6d295238c50
Fields of Poison: California Farmworkers and Pesticides
http://calameo.com/books/0006408450460dedaaf32
Global Wariming Impact on Food Security in the Pacific - Vanuatu

http://calameo.com/books/00064084512133b94c27b
Global Warming Impacts on the Achievement of the Millennium Development Goals

http://calameo.com/books/0006408456c307b9e86bf
Global Warming Impact on Nepal

http://calameo.com/books/000640845247227c64cf2
Global Warming Mitigation in Pastoralism Dry Lands

http://calameo.com/books/00064087225c0a5c71418
Health Hazards of Peticides in Pakistan

http://calameo.com/books/000640872a9e9ca92cfef
How to Assist the Small Scale Farmer

http://calameo.com/books/0006408729314a9d4ff76
How Will Global Warming Impact World Food Supplies?

http://en.calameo.com/books/00062163191b1fbf2e884
Just Climate
http://en.calameo.com/books/000571242b6b49fe9b006
Indian Farmers Suffering from Toxic Pesticides

http://calameo.com/books/0006408723a8a940f9a55
Kenyan Farm Workers: Poisoning by Pesticides

http://calameo.com/books/0006408724ea97eff7f9f
Oxfam Launches East Africa Appeal for Starving People

Drought is Killing People, Food Prices Soar
http://en.calameo.com/books/0006216310cafa1675dc6
Pesticide exports to the Third World
http://calameo.com/books/00064087213780bdd5d69
Pesticide Poisoning Killing Asian Farm Workers

http://calameo.com/books/00064087289b1e91b291c
Pesticide Poisoning of Residents Near Farm Fields

http://calameo.com/books/000640872410684ed82e2
Pesticide Safety Laws Fail to Protect Farmworkers

http://calameo.com/books/0006408725f66aec819f8
Pesticide Use and Health Costs

http://calameo.com/books/000640872e6327a044830
PESTICIDES AND WOMEN AGRICULTURAL WORKERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

http://calameo.com/books/0006408726e68a3e81dce
Pesticides Are Dangerous

http://calameo.com/books/000640872e8480cab16d0
Pesticides Are Poison

http://calameo.com/books/00064087250920f70d439
Pesticides poison Colorado farm workers

http://calameo.com/books/000640872ce96b4413a69
http://scribd.com/doc/52107662/
Plight of the Farmworker - Episcopal Farmworker Ministry

http://calameo.com/books/000640872051f8d94eff8
Survivors of Pesticide Poisoning - Say No to Methyl Iodide

http://calameo.com/books/000640872ce2e18cd4b1c
The Finance Sector and Natural Capital - Catalyzing Acton

http://calameo.com/books/000640872abd62fa3b73f
The Hidden Problems of Child Farm Workers
http://calameo.com/books/000640872bdd32ce0eb36
Towards a Green Economy

http://calameo.com/books/000640872e50d6e282107
Trabalho rural e intoxicações por agrotóxicos - Rural work and pesticide poisoning
http://calameo.com/books/000640872b07c5df03fe1
Treatment of Pesticide Poisoning

http://calameo.com/books/0006408720fad389db3cc
What Can Be Done to Curtail Pesticide Poisoning Impacts

http://calameo.com/books/00064087212ee18efa6b6
Zero-Waste Agriculture - Organic Berry Farm

http://calameo.com/books/000640872ad603c73eb50
book: Does the Bible Teach Nutrition; by Elizabeth Baker

MIRACLE IN WISCONSIN – a different kind of school lunch

http://feingold.org/PF/wisconsin1.html
http://foodrevolution.org/askjohn/43.htm
http://gmfreeschools.org
http://advancedhealthplan.com/miracleschool.html
http://puppetgov.com/2009/01/14/miracle-in-wisconsin-a-different-kind-of-school-lunch
400% increase in Plant Growth

Growing Solutions
http://growingsolutions.com
Properly prepared compost tea is an excellent soil builder and organic fertilizer.
Some Compost Teas may reduce or eliminate various plant pests and diseases.
SoilSoup Compost Tea

http://soilsoup.com
SoilSoup Compost Tea is an excellent soil builder and organic fertilizer.
Soil Soup is very easy to handle and use.
Remineral your Soil

http://remineralize.org
Soil Regeneration with Volcanic Rock Dust
http://calameo.com/books/00062163120384c54b373
Volcanic Rock Dust added to soil can double the plant or lawn growth.
Effective Micro-Organisms
http://effectivemicro-organisms.co.uk
Effective Micro-Organisms properly combined with Volcanic Rock Dust can increase product ivy by
200 percent to 400 percent.
In Thailand, soil properly treated increased productivity by over 400 percent.
VermiCo
http://vermico.com
book: Worms Eat My Garbage; by Mary Appelhof
http://wormbooks.com
Worm Compost is an excellent soil builder and organic fertilizer.
Worm Compost breaks down slowly in soil, where there is much rain or lawn watering.
Chemical fertilizers, which are made from Fossil Fuels, will wash out of the soil quickly and pollute
surrounding areas, causing fish kills and making drinking water unsafe.
Worm Tea may reduce or eliminate various plant pests and diseases.
Also, various worms added to soil, will increase its productivity.
Eprida
http://eprida.com
Biochar - Carbon Soils - Charcoal
Biochar is an excellent soil builder.
Biochar can dramatically reduce the amount of fertilizers and water needed, and greatly increase soil
productivity.
Soils in the Amazon Jungles, to which Biochar was added several hundred years ago, are still very
productive today.
Thus, one treatment of certain types of biochars may last hundreds of years.
Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World; by Paul Stamets
book: The One Straw Revolution; by Masanobu Fukuoka

Earth User's Guide to Permaculture; by Rosemary Morrow
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening; by
Sepp Holzer
http://amazon.com/dp/160358370X
AcresUSA
http://acresusa.com
FREE Cataloge of Books
AcresUSA carries many books, DVD's and other materials about successful organic gardening, organic
farming, organic animal care and natural health and living.
book: Soul of Soil; by Grace Gershuny

ORGANIC PEST CONTROL

http://peststop.livejournal.com
ORGANIC WEED CONTROL

http://stopweeds.livejournal.com
SAVE THE BEES

http://www.friendsofthebees.org
FREE PUBLICATIONS about ORGANIC FARMING, SOLAR ENERGY, GREENHOUSES

http://attra.ncat.org/publication.html
book: Faith Like Potatoes, by Angus Buchan

http://shalomtrust.co.za
HEALTY SOIL, HEALTY LAWNS, HEALTHY PEOPLE
Organic LAWN CARE

book: The Organic Lawn Care Manual, by Paul Tukey
book: Lawns: Natural And Organic; by Don Williamson

Organic Lawn Care Sources & Resources

http://calameo.com/books/000621631325cfb7faf4b
Safe Lawns
http://safelawns.org
Organic Lawn and Yard Care

http://yardandgardens.com
Organic Land Care

http://www.organiclandcare.net
book: Food Not Lawns; by Heather C. Flores

http://books.google.com/books?id=M_DtwznYASwC
http://www.foodnotlawns.net
book: Complete Book of Edible Landscaping; by Rosalind Creasy

book: Landscaping with fruit; by Lee Reich

book: Edible Flower Garden; by Rosalind Creasy

ORGANIC PEST CONTROL

http://peststop.livejournal.com
ORGANIC WEED CONTROL

http://stopweeds.livejournal.com
SAVE THE BEES

http://friendsofthebees.org
Pesticide Action Network North America

http://panna.org
National Farm Worker Ministry - Episcopal Farm Worker Ministry
http://nfwm.org
Stop the Pesticide Poisoning of Farm Workers and their Children
Pest Management at the Crossroads

http://pmac.net
Eco Fly Trap

Epps Biting Fly Trap
http://showhorsepromotions.com/horseflies.htm
Greenhead Fly traps
Eliminating POLLUTION and RECYCLING with Effective Microorganisms

book: Our Future Reborn: EM Technology Changes The World; by Teruo Higa
http://effectivemicro-organisms.co.uk
book: Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World; Paul Stamets
Cleaning Up Oil Spills
http://fungi.com
WORM Composting and RECYCLING Technologies

book: Worms Eat My Garbage; by Mary Appelhof
http://vermico.com http://wormdigest.org
More Books about Worm Technologies
http://wormbooks.com
http://vermico.com
HYDROPONIC GARDENING and Greenhouses

http://www.growingedge.com
http://carbon.org
book: Hobby Hydroponics; by Howard M. Resh
http://books.google.com/books?id=vT-hJsta_gwC
http://growingedge.com
AQUAPONIC GARDENING
book: Aquaponic Food Production: growing fish and vegetables for food and profit; by Rebecca L
Nelson
http://www.backyardaquaponics.com
http://books.google.com/books?id=da1fPgAACAAJ
Backyard Aquaponics: A Guide to Building an Aquaponic System; by Joel Malcolm
Backyard Aquaponics Magazine

http://backyardaquaponics.com
Aquaponics Journal
http://aquaponicsjournal.com
ORGANIC HEIRLOOM SEEDS

localharvest.org - search "organic seeds"
For more information, please contact local gardeners and farmers who specialize in Organic gardening,
Permaculture gardening, Biodynamic gardening, Japanese Kyusei Nature gardening - Shizen Nouhou,
Biointensive gardening, Heirloom gardening-Heritage Seeds, Lasagna gardening, Square Foot
gardening, Vertical gardening, Wall and Fence gardening, Roof Top and Balcony gardening, Indoor
gardening with LED Grow Lights and Ssolatube.com, Micro Greens gardening, Windowsill gardening,
Container gardening, Keyhole gardening, Organic Aquaponics gardening, African Bag Gardens, No
Dig gardening, Agroforestry gardening, Israeli Greenhouses Technology for Hot Climates, Organic
Hydroponics gardening and Gardening Therapy.
Gardening is micro-climate specific. These means that local gardeners might know of gardening
techniques and resources which are helpful for the location you live in.
Keep researching, reading, refining your gardening methods and experimenting with different growing
techniques.
Organic Gardening technology is changing and improving all the time. Also, as the climate changes,
you may need to learn other gardening techniques for various climates.
http://localharvest.org
VEGETABLE OIL CARS

Plant Drive
http://plantdrive.com
Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems
http://www.greasecar.com
Convert Used Cooking Oil into Diesel Fuel

http://calameo.com/books/00062505380583956a8bb
Details of Using Vegetable Oil Cars

Converting your Diesel Engine to Vegetable Oil
http://calameo.com/books/0006250539dafd6734dd3
Veg Powered Systems

http://vegpoweredsystems.com
Golden Fuel Systems

http://goldenfuelsystems.com
Good Grease
http://www.goodgrease.com
Veg Power
Power from Vegetable Oil
http://www.vegpower.com
ELSBETT Diesel Technology

http://elsbett.com
Veg Oil Motoring

http://vegoilmotoring.com
Bio Car
http://biocar.de
Enviofuel
Straight Vegetable Oil Products
http://www.enviofuel.com
FRYBRID
The Future of Vegetable Oil Technology
http://frybrid.com
Vegie Cars
http://vegiecars.com
Organic Mechanic
http://www.theorganicmechanic.org
Fattywagons
http://www.fattywagons.com
DVD: S.V.O. Seminar 2006 http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com

DVD: Greasy Rider http://plotkinproductions.com/greasyinfo.html
DVD: Liquid Gold 2 http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com
use search engines to locate dvd's
DVD: FUEL
http://thefuelfilm.com
Grease University
http://greasology.org
JOURNEY to FOREVER
http://journeytoforever.org
book: Super Power Breathing: For Super Energy, High Health & Longevity, by Patricia Bragg
http://calameo.com/books/000621631bae3952d4ca7
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ORGANIC AGRICULTURE WILL TERMINATE WORLD HUNGER

Utilizing advanced organic farming technology to eliminate hunger. Why

We must now ask ourselves:

Is global hunger due to a shortage of food production

Can organic agriculture feed the world?

Organic agriculture needs to be able to answer two major questions:

Can organic agriculture achieve high yields in developed

Will GMOs feed the world?

At least 50 percent of the acreage is now managed by corporate agriculture.

There is an increasing role of transnational companies in the agricultural sector.

Organic agriculture can feed the world.

Organic agriculture is a viable solution to preventing global hunger because:

It can achieve these yields in the areas where it is needed most.

It has low inputs.

It is cost-effective and affordable.

It does not require any expensive technical investment.

This money would be spent far more productively on organic agricultural

Organic agriculture is the quickest, most efficient, most cost-

Organic Producers Association of Queensland

Information from other organizations' websites:

'I'm not sure that is going too far.' "

said Neil E. Harl, a professor of economics at Iowa State University:

You just sort of surrender."

Don Westfall, biotech industry consultant and vice-president of Promar International,

The Africa Faith & Justice Network

USAID and GM Food Aid

THE DECISION OF THE ZAMBIAN GOVERNMENT TO BAN GENETICALLY MODIFIED

Hawaiian Papaya: GMO Contaminated

Food Security: Empty promises of technological solutions

GE Contamination: The Ticking Time-Bomb

GM FOOD AID: AFRICA DENIED CHOICE ONCE AGAIN

DIRTY SECRETS of the Food Processing Industry

Ecological Agriculture - Providing Food Security, Mitigating Global Warming

Agriculture: Investing in Natural Capital

Organic Agriculture and Food Security in Africa

Organic Agriculture for IMPROVED Food Security in Africa

Organic agriculture and Global Warming

Organic Agriculture - a Guide to Global Warming and Food Security

Organic Solutions to Global Warming and Food Security

Natural Capital: The New Political Imperative

Towards Sustainable Agriculture

UNEP Green Economy Initiative

Using Microfinance to Ensure Food Security, While Mitigating Global Warming

Women in Agriculture - Making Strong Case for Investing in Women

Environmentally Sustainable Development - The Importance of Women

Women are the Key to Food Security and Rural Development

Reforestation helps Vulnerable Populations Adapt to Global Warming

Bioenergy for the Poor

Global Wariming Impact on Fiji Food Security and Poverty

Natural capitalism - Path to Sustainability

Global Warming and Food Security

Global Warming Impacts - Destruction of Africa Forest-Dependent Rural

Traditional food crops as a source of community resilience

Global Warming Impact on World Fisheries

Biodiversity as Tool for Adapting to Global Warming - Lessons from the

Global Warming Economic Impacts on Tanzania and Deforestation

Global Warming Impacts on Uganda - Integral Farm-Household Management

Global Warming Mitigation Practitioner’s Handbook

How to Mainstream Global Warming Adaptation for Agriculture

Africa - Up in Smoke - Global Warming Vulnerability

Lessons for Global Warming Adaptation

Global Warming Destroying Maple Sugar Industry