Organic farming

Organic farming is a form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost, and biological pest control. Depending on whose definition is used, organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides (which include herbicides, insecticides and fungicides) if they are considered natural (such as bone meal from animals or pyrethrin from flowers), but it excludes or strictly limits the use of various methods (including synthetic petrochemical fertilizers and pesticides; plant growth regulators such as hormones; antibiotic use in livestock; genetically modified organisms; human sewage sludge; and nanomaterials) in pursuit of goals including sustainability, openness, independence, health, and safety.

Organic agricultural methods are internationally regulated and legally enforced by many nations, based in large part on the standards set by the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM), an international umbrella organization for organic farming organizations established in 1972. The USDA definition as of April 1995 is:

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Legacies Crucial for the Commons

Resilience 11 Dec 2018

... decades; indigenous peoples in Peru, Canada and Australia have gained territorial autonomy; small peasants in Africa and Latin America have sustained or gone back to organic farming; fisherpersons in the South Pacific have their own network of sustainably managed marine sites....

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Blockchain systems are tracking food safety and origins

Daily Freeman 21 Nov 2018

Fraudsters may try to counterfeit certifications of organic processes or farm inspections. In addition, most of the food products in developing economies like Africa and China are produced on very small farms that don’t have access to technology or internet connectivity....

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Young entrepreneurs lend glamour to African agriculture

This is Money 19 Oct 2018

Getting young people involved in agriculture does not mean they have to work on a farm, said Nigerian Olawale Rotimi Opeyemi, 29, whose agribusiness company JR Farms Africa has projects in Nigeria, Ivory Coast and Rwanda ... Her 650-hectare farm, Mnandi Africa, produces certified maize seed, grows indigenous organic grains, and trains women farmers....

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Senegal hopes it has the next quinoa

Quartz 02 Sep 2018

It is one of Africa’s oldest ... It has partnered with SOS Sahel, a non-profit focused on food security and nutrition in Sub-Saharan Africa, to train local farmers on how to farm the grain and organize the collection and transportation of crops to the processing mill in Senegal....

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Trump jumps into dispute over South African farms

The Philadelphia Tribune 24 Aug 2018

The number of killings of farmers is at a 20-year low, 47 in 2017-18, according to research published in July by AgriSA, a farmers’ organization in South Africa ... “There is no official crime category called ‘farm attack’ or ‘farm murder,’” according to Africa Check, a local fact-checking organization....

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Trump tweets the word 'Africa' for first time as president in defense of whites in ...

The Daily Republic 23 Aug 2018

... land and farm seizures," as well as the "killing of farmers." ... A 2017 land audit released by the consultancy Agri Development Solutions and AGRI SA, a farm lobby organization, found that nonwhites owned 27 percent of farmland in South Africa, compared with 14 percent in 1994....

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Trump tweets the word ‘Africa’ for first time as president in defense of whites in ...

The Mercury News 23 Aug 2018

A 2017 land audit released by the consultancy Agri Development Solutions and AGRI SA, a farm lobby organization, found that nonwhites owned 27 percent of farmland in South Africa, compared with 14 percent in 1994 ... But a fact-checking website called Africa Check says it is ......

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Mission to Dakar

This Day 29 Jul 2018

It seemed impossible to catch the returning artists and their stories of adventure that evening ... No doubt, the trip was an eye-opener for these artists on the socio-economic topography of West Africa. For instance, they discovered that in Ivory coast, there is a huge emphasis on agriculture- a systematically organized farming system ... ....

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UN agriculture agency digs in to help forests and farms build resilience to climate change

United Nations 20 Jul 2018

On Friday, the Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) and partners launched the second stage of a successful international partnership that supports forest and farm producer organizations across Africa, Asia and Latin America during the gathering, known as COFO 24 ... "Forest and farm producers are more powerful when organized,” stressed Mr....

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France, Nigeria to Collaborate for Development of Organic Agriculture

This Day 03 Jul 2018

Benoy Berry, Gauer, commended the company’s effort to develop organic farming in Nigeria and across West Africa with the aim of solving the problem of food insecurity ... Underscoring Nigeria’s agricultural potentials, he said it is a step in the right direction that the company is massively investing in organic agriculture, adding....

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Paradise Sun Hotel Chef imparts newly acquired culinary skills & knowledge

Nation 25 May 2018

Dave’s journey to South Africa brought him to a private culinary arts school based on a farm with ten other students from ... His exposure to various farms made him realise how little emphasis is placed on growing organic produce in Seychelles, compared to the farms in South Africa....

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BOS Brands Announces U.S. Launch of BOS Iced Tea

Odessa American 09 May 2018

BOS’ premium quality organic rooibos is farmed on Klipopmekaar – a private nature reserve in the Cederberg mountains of South Africa ... BOS’ rooibos tea is farmed ethically on Klipopmekaar - a private nature reserve high up in the Cederberg Mountains in South Africa – a pristine wilderness and the only place on the planet where rooibos grows....

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NYC urges private sector partnership on job creation in agric

Business Day Online 03 May 2018

He applauded the advocate of Nigeria’s organic farming for empowering Nigerian youths through setting up the AfriOne smart handset with various applications in Africa, Shendam said NYC will take the campaign of organic farming across the nooks and crannies of Nigeria to stimulate youths’ interest in organic farming....