A new international study into the impact of agricultural land use on climate change has found organic food production is worse for the climate than conventional farming, due to the fact that it needs ...

Organic farming refers to a method of agriculture that uses fertilizers made from animal and plant wastes and other biological materials. Recognizing the environmental harm of traditional farming, ...

Whereas agriculture has existed for millennia, the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association has been around for just a handful of decades. The very notion of organics is barely older than MOFGA ...

Organic food sales in the U.S. doubled over the last decade, but organic farming hasn’t kept pace. That may change as farmers partner with brands. Mexican and Guatemalan workers harvest organically ...

The world's appetite for sustainable agriculture has reached a remarkable tipping point. Recent data from the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) and IFOAM reveals that organic farming ...

Greenhouse gas emissions would go up if all farms in England and Wales went organic. Though the emissions of individual farms would go down, much more food would have to be imported as the amount they ...

After their town was devastated by floods in 2004, residents of Kiday in the Philippines shifted to organic methods when rebuilding their farms. Today, the Kiday Community Farmers’ Association ...

When Vandit and his parents began work on a neglected piece of land in Mollem, few people believed it could be brought back to life without chemicals. The land had been barren for about 40 years and ...